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April 18, 2019
A new microbe has been found in the ocean at a depth of over 200 metres, where it extracts energy ...
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April 2, 2019
The bacteria in the skin microbiome of amphibians are much more diverse in a temperate climate with cold winters than ...
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March 18, 2019
Belgian research has revealed that people with depression have less of certain gut bacteria. A possible explanation is that these ...
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March 7, 2019
Microbes with the ability to move may have evolved much earlier than previously thought. A 2.1 billion-year-old system of ...
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Feb. 21, 2019
When you come down with a cold, your sneezes contain an average of a hundred thousand pathogens, or germs. Scientists ...
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Feb. 12, 2019
Scientists have discovered that the bacteriophage VP882 has the ability to eavesdrop on bacteria by tuning into their signaling molecules ...
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Feb. 7, 2019
Alzheimer's disease is a type of dementia resulting from the build-up of certain proteins (amyloid β molecules) in the ...
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Jan. 30, 2019
Most microbes are unable to survive temperatures exceeding 60⁰C. And yet, inside the scorching hot central-heating boilers of American households ...
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Jan. 21, 2019
Scientists have discovered that rhizobacteria help desert plants survive severely arid and saline conditions. This could potentially boost desert crop ...
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Jan. 10, 2019
More and more species of animals are under pressure around the globe. They are threatened with extinction due to shrinking ...
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Dec. 28, 2018
According to current estimates, there are 23 billion tonnes of micro-organisms living several kilometres underneath the ground on which we ...
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Dec. 7, 2018
It's not easy to protect old works of art. The passage of time may damage a canvas as well ...
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