Once they awaken, these microbes continue to break down soil and release carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere.

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

At a certain point in Earth’s distant past, the planet’s assortment of organic molecules and compounds aligned to create the ...

A body of salty water at the Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge on the Hawaiian island of Maui has gone bright pink, possibly due to a tiny organism, according to federal officials. The pond at the ...