It takes a huge amount of energy for human brains to grow to their current large size and be maintained over time. Our early ...

Microbes supporting the production of more metabolic energy could be key to the evolution of large brains. Microbes that ...

The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we ...

The people you spend the most time with outside your home might be playing a role in the composition of the microbes residing ...

You share a lot more than just meals and hobbies with your family and friends: you also give each other gut microbes, meaning ...

Microbes, including bacteria and fungi, travel in high-altitude winds, crossing continents. Study identified 266 fungi and ...

Rivers and streams serve as critical connectors across vast geographical landscapes, trickling out of tucked-away headwaters ...

Over time, technological advances made it easier to study the microbiota, and in 1977, the famous ratio of one human cell for ...

The human body has several distinct microbiomes—on the skin, in the mouth and in our airways—but the most consequential one for health is in the digestive system, commonly called the gut microbiome.

In a healthy human adult, bacterial cells outnumber human cells, but the identity and degree of diversity of these bacteria in a single individual, their variability from person to person, and their ...