Researchers discovered that your kitchen sponge is a better incubator for diverse bacterial communities than a laboratory Petri dish.

Microbes play an important role in climate because they release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere when they eat.

A global effort to map the genomes of all plants, animals, fungi and other microbial life on Earth, is entering a new phase.

The number of microbial enzymes with the ability to degrade plastic is growing, in correlation with local levels of plastic pollution.