
While global warming shrinks ice caps, it's expanding “oxygen minimum zones,” where newly discovered bacteria are depleting waters of nitrogen, a nutrient essential to life. This could be creating imbalances.

Do genetic regulators guide survival strategies in hard times? A tiny mutation in a roundworm says they may well.

Effective July 1, the Georgia Tech College of Sciences has a new unit focused on the life sciences — the School of Biological Sciences.

School of Biology’s Joel Kostka, students engaged fifth-graders in oils spills, oil-eating bacteria.