Remember the mighty oil-eating microbes, aka marine bacteria, that commentators from the White House on down hailed as a major natural weapon in combating the Gulf oil disaster? Well, the recent ...

At a lab on Grand Isle, La., at the edge of Barataria Bay, biologists hoping to help save the oil-soiled marshlands are at the ready with a vat containing 30,000 gallons of homegrown oil-eating ...

WASHINGTON - Government scientists studying the BP disaster are reporting the best possible outcome: Microbes are consuming the oil in the Gulf of Mexico without depleting the oxygen in the water and ...

Scientists in Belfast and Nigeria have developed a diagnostic tool that deploys microbes to uncover the timeline of crude oil contamination in soils. The collaborative project is led by researchers ...

Rocks fractured by earthquakes could unlock a wide menu of chemical energy sources for microbes living deep underground – and similar processes could potentially support microbes within other planets.