“I feel honored to receive a prize named after Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the inventor of the microscope,” said Bisot. “By revealing invisible soil organisms, our work carries forward his legacy of ...

Beneath the surface of our gardens, parks, and forests, an unseen army works day and night, sculpting the very ground we walk ...

Synthetic biology is the use of genetic engineering and other advances in biotechnology to generate new organisms or manipulate existing ... For example, it is now well known that the Martian soil is ...