Scientists refine the timeline of sponge origins, showing soft-bodied ancestors likely evolved later than some chemical ...

From human intestines to the bottom of the sea: Microorganisms populate nearly any habitat, no matter how hostile it is. Their great variety of survival strategies is of huge potential in ...

Your kitchen sponge is teeming with microbes. But repeated contact with food waste is not the only reason; a sponge’s unique structure plays a role, too. It could even inspire a new way to grow ...

In the cold, dark depths of the Arctic Ocean, a feast of the dead is under way. A vast community of sponges, the densest group of these animals found in the Arctic, is consuming the remains of an ...

It may look innocent, but the kitchen sponge is often the nastiest thing in a kitchen, and the main reason is that people use ...