Climate models are essential to predicting and addressing climate change, but can fail to adequately represent soil microbes, a critical player in ecosystem soil carbon sequestration that affects the ...

The new microbe-explicit soil model (left) versus DayCent’s previous soil model that did not explicitly model microbe activity (right). Of all the carbon stored in ecosystems around the world, about ...

Frozen Arctic soil is not silent. When it thaws, microbes wake up in stages, release carbon, and even hunt each other.

In a breakthrough for the advanced study of gut health, NUS scientists have developed a 3D microscopic version of the human intestines condensed into a small chip about half the size of a five-cent ...

Human skin harbors a wide range of microorganisms, including fungi, bacteria, and viruses. In fact, recent estimates indicate that over 10 11 microbial cells could be present on skin surfaces.

A microorganism whose evolutionary roots can be traced to the era of the first multicellular animals may provide a glimpse of how single-celled organisms made a critical evolutionary leap. In ...

A University of Oklahoma research team will analyze microbe-climate interactions in greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4 and N2O) from grasslands and croplands in Oklahoma. The four-year, $3 million project ...

University of Chicago researchers have developed a mathematical model that predicts how soil microbiomes respond to environmental changes, focusing on pH shifts. Using just two variables, the model ...