Conservation biologists propose a daunting task: protecting Earth’s diversity of bacteria and other microbes. By Carl Zimmer Hundreds of scientists have joined together to save a group of species from ...

A cleaner goby cleans a grouper in a Caribbean coral reef. These little fish clean much bigger fish of parasites and bacteria. Where do you go when you’re a fish and you need a skincare treatment?

New research revealed the remarkable chemical diversity of substances exuded by coral reefs and demonstrated that thousands of different chemicals derived from tropical corals and seaweeds are ...