Catching the Sun. A last-minute modification to a camera on the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter probe has enabled scientists to capture unprecedented images of part of the Sun’s ...

Mice lacking microbiota (right) are thinner and smaller than standard mice (left) carrying intestinal microbes. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 19 2016, issue of Science ...

An infographic explaining four of the key roles that microbes play in the cause and treatment of cancer. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

Then the team sequenced the bacterial DNA to retrieve the gif and the image, verifying that the microbes had indeed incorporated the data as intended. The results appear in Nature journal.