New dynamic model better portrays how plant roots forage and adapt to resource fluctuation.

X-ray and electron microscopy techniques help unfold the story of protein chaperones.

Research team studies the compelling connection between one of NIH’s ​“most wanted” bacteria and mental health.

The world’s leading soil scientists met at Argonne recently to discuss the importance of what’s under our feet.

Recent workshop focuses on machine learning and environmental research

A new data platform for the biological sciences promises to improve the face of scientific analysis and publication.

A special strain of soil bacteria has the paradoxical ability to produce highly toxic compounds to protect itself from other organisms without harming itself.

The idea of bacteria as diverse, complex perceptive entities that can hunt prey in packs, remember past experiences and interact with the moods and perceptions of their human hosts sounds like the plot of some low-budget science fiction movie.

Whenever we use our smartphones to check social media, we face loads of bacteria on the devices — even more than on toilet seats, according to a University of Arizona study.

When Pete Beckman was an undergraduate in the 1980s, science and engineering majors typically sought summer jobs as lifeguards, golf caddies and other such positions filled by teenagers.

Tuberculosis has now surpassed HIV worldwide as the leading cause of death due to infectious disease.

CROWDSOURCE asks Argonne scientists from different disciplines to each provide a perspective on a complex question. Today we’re asking: What might your field of science look like in 50 years?

Grasping the biological, chemical and geological processes microbes engage in is critical to understanding and predicting global climate, greenhouse gas emissions, nutrient transport and other natural phenomena.

Humans and Komodo dragons, the largest lizards in the world, could not be more different.