Here in Booming Ice Chasm – a remote, apparently lifeless cavern in the belly of the Rocky Mountains – Nick Vieira is looking for the next antibiotic revolution. Almost a century ago, Scottish ...

Cave ecosystems are unique environments that host a diverse array of microbial life, including bacteria, fungi, and algae. These microorganisms play crucial roles in various ecological processes ...

And if the bacteria hadn't created an anoxic environment, many of Iliffe's species wouldn't have flourished in the caves and much of the biological evidence would have vanished. As Broad puts it ...

These are things you can't even see, but they are affecting perhaps how the cave is shaped, formed, dissolved. And some microbes or their products can kill you. To me, it's fascinating that there ...

In Belize’s Actun Tunichil Muknal cave, a sacred Maya site, plants grow in darkness, sparking concerns about how tourism affects its fragile ecosystem.

Since there is a total lack of sunlight in the cave, the food chain depends on chemosynthesis as opposed to photosynthesis. The bacteria inside oxidize the abundance of methane and sulfur in order ...

Scientists have found evidence of bacteria that cause tooth decay and gum disease in 4,000-year-old human molars. Trapped within the dental remains that were unearthed from a limestone cave in ...

We used microbes isolated from mineral rich environments (caves) which possessed high natural calcification phenotypes. The utilization of cave environmental isolates for this application was a unique ...

We’re long past the stage of imagining the inhabitants of Mars as little green men. But as we explore the red planet, what kind of life might we find there? NASA scientists think life on Mars ...