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Parachutes Made of Mucus Change How Some Scientists See the Ocean

This Cheese Stood Alone for 3,600 Years

Leonard Hayflick, Who Discovered Why No One Lives Forever, Dies at 98

Life After Asteroid Bennu

Mars Needs Insects

Male-Killing Virus Is Discovered in Insects

Old Faithful Is Boiling, Smelly and the Perfect Home for These Living Things

Keanu Reeves’s Latest Role? Fungus-Killing Bacterial Compound.

A New Approach to Spotting Tumors: Look for Their Microbes

Scientists Have Made a Human Microbiome From Scratch

Every Pore on Your Face Is a Walled Garden

This Fire-Loving Fungus Eats Charcoal, if It Must

This Ink Is Alive and Made Entirely of Microbes

Satellites Spot Oceans Aglow With Trillions of Organisms

This Tiny Creature Survived 24,000 Years Frozen in Siberian Permafrost

Subway Swabbers Find a Microbe Jungle — And Thousands of New Species

Thomas Brock, Whose Discovery Paved the Way for PCR Tests, Dies at 94

The Fairy Circles Mystery Gets a New Suspect

Manatees May Carry Half a Million Microscopic Hitchhikers

Life on Venus? The Picture Gets Cloudier