Geothermal hot springs represent unique and extreme ecosystems where high temperatures, variable pH and diverse geochemical conditions converge to create natural laboratories for microbial evolution.

A study of wild African herbivores offers new insight into how environmental conditions—not just diet and anatomy—can ...

Venn diagram of shared and unique publicly available bacterial metagenome-only operational taxonomic units (mOTUs) originating from various genome categories. The gray circle represents 127,766 ...

People have long said that "bread is life." Now, researchers at Tufts University are using the bubbling mixtures of flour and water known as sourdough starters to explore what shapes life at the ...