A chunk of rock collected from the asteroid Ryugu contains bacteria—but, unfortunately, it's not evidence of alien life.

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Researchers from the Single-Cell Center at the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology of the Chinese ...

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New Caledonia is home to thousands of species found nowhere else—and to nickel that companies like Tesla desperately need.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning letter, but not a recall, after microorganisms were found in water ...

Scientists have detailed both broad and specific information about the presence and function of microorganisms in rivers covering 90% of the watersheds in the continental U.S. Cataloging the ...

Compared to larger water bodies like oceans and lakes, the microbiology of rivers has remained largely underexplored.

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