Under a microscope, Tardigrade—often called water bears—look like something from another world. These microscopic organisms ...

The warming of the waters off the East Coast has come at an invisible, but very steep cost — the loss of microscopic organisms that make up the base of the ocean's food chain. The growing warmth and ...

Educator and amateur scientist Charles Thomas Hudson's obsession with microscopic creatures is literally illuminated in his ...

Free-living amoebae are emerging as a global health concern, fueled by warming temperatures and outdated water systems. While many are harmless, some can cause deadly infections and even protect other ...

The human body may seem like a single, self-contained system, but it actually hosts trillions of microscopic organisms. These microbes live on the skin, in the mouth, and throughout the digestive ...

The movement patterns of microscopic algae can be mapped in greater detail than ever before, giving new insights into ocean health. The movement patterns of microscopic algae can be mapped in greater ...

Scientists have discovered several very rare species of microorganisms, some of which have never been seen before and others which have escaped the curious eyes of scientists for over a hundred years.

Although these microscopic organisms are among the ocean’s smallest, their “blooms” are often visible from space. Phytoplankton are critical to making the planet livable and contribute to the global ...

From more than 400 miles above Earth, NASA is tracking some of the planet’s smallest life forms drifting just beneath the ocean’s surface to monitor how global warming affects ocean health. The ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Researchers at the University of Nottingham have created an endoscopic device that can 3D image the stiffness of individual biological cells and complex organisms, a discovery that could help doctors ...

Scientists just invented microscopic knives capable of stabbing and killing bacteria on contact. The germ theory of disease emerged over the last several centuries to explain the way microscopic ...