The being in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Preliminary research says it stretches the definition of ...

Scientists have now reported the discovery of a new antibiotic, which comes from a bacterium that has not been studied before, and could work against antibiotic resistant superbugs. The novel ...

MyxoTech: unlocking microbial dark matter MyxoTech (Saarbrücken, Germany) is a start-up that offers a library of small molecules derived from myxobacteria for use in the pharmaceutical industry. At ...

Genetic tools probe microbial dark matter Scientists elucidate genes needed for the unusual lifestyle of miniscule bacteria that live on the surface of larger bacteria Date: September 7, 2023 ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

Imagine researchers exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that single beam. When it comes to microbial communities, scientists have historically ...

The latest experiment also represents the first time the LZ team applied a technique called “salting,” in which false WIMP signals were added in advance. This helped the researchers—who, of course, ...

Astronomers have made an astounding discovery. According to a new paper featured in Nature Astronomy, we have now detected dark matter in the cosmic web for the very first time.

Physicists have detected the heaviest antimatter atoms, bolstering antimatter theories and the search for dark matter.

In the vast universe, galaxies rotate in ways that don’t make sense if only visible matter is considered. For almost a century, scientists have tried to explain this by searching for a hidden ...

Genetic tools probe microbial dark matter Scientists elucidate genes needed for the unusual lifestyle of miniscule bacteria that live on the surface of larger bacteria.