25 May 2023
Trichodesmium, a kind of cyanobacterium that is vital to ocean ecosystems, forms colonies that work together and change shape to get the light and nutrients the microbe needs to grow
13 May 2022
E. coli bacteria modified to act like electronic components called memristors can be set up to act as a simple neural network and trained to play noughts and crosses
14 January 2020
The microbes that live inside you say more than your genes do about your likelihood of developing health conditions ranging from asthma to cancer and schizophrenia
30 March 2019
Hundreds of giant viruses that infect bacteria have been discovered. Some seem to deploy CRISPR – the system used for gene editing – to fight their hosts
19 June 2018
We thought we knew about most of the species in our bodies’ microbiomes, but a study has revealed a large number of previously-unidentified organisms
16 May 2018
All the green-blooded lizards in the world live in New Guinea, but it turns out the trait has evolved there independently at least four times
25 May 2017
There is less plastic in our oceans than expected because life is evolving the ability to biodegrade it, one team is claiming
