The frozen, barren soil of the Arctic isn’t as lifeless as it looks. Locked inside the permafrost is a strikingly diverse ...

Duke researchers are studying sink microbes to learn how cleaning habits shape indoor ecosystems. Researchers at Duke are studying the microbiome of the sink. In other words, they want to know what’s ...

Researchers have resurrected ancient microbes that lay dormant in the Alaskan permafrost for about 40,000 years. Permafrost ecosystems exist in a state of suspended animation, but as the planet heats ...

Using samples gathered from a permafrost tunnel north of Fairbanks, researchers have awakened microbes that were last active as far back as 40,000 years ago.