Near-weightless conditions can mutate genes and alter the physical structures of bacteria and phages, disrupting their normal ...

Scientists have infected bacteria with a virus aboard the International Space Station to see how they would interact in ...

When scientists sent bacteria-infecting viruses to the International Space Station, the microbes did not behave the same way ...

For the research, scientists compared samples incubated on Earth and on the International Space Station.

Far from Earth's gravitational pull, a simple viral infection took on a new evolutionary direction. A study conducted aboard the ISS found that when bacteria and ...

Bacteria and viruses are locked in a slow motion battle aboard the ISS that looks nothing like life on the ground.

"Microgravity pushed evolution into corners of the phage we still don't fully understand" ...

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to be alive. Nestled inside a tiny plankton cell, researchers found a ...

The so-called “circle of life” dictates that if a living thing exists, it’s probably food for something else. Viruses, however, have historically managed to escape this unofficial rule. Although ...

Scientists have discovered something intriguing in a new type of organism that actually eats viruses. The organisms, which are known as virovores, don't just eat viruses accidentally, either. These ...