11/10/20 11:04AM
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Recent experiments aboard the International Space Station have shown that some microbes can harvest valuable rare-ea…
9/15/20 2:56PM
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Our minds were blown yesterday as a team of researchers reported on the discovery of phosphine in the atmosphere of…
7/28/20 11:13AM
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Scientists have revived microbes found deep beneath the seafloor in 100-million-year-old sediment, dramatically…
4/29/20 4:30PM
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A new study has found that the impacts of deep sea mining are still felt a quarter of a century later.
3/27/20 3:44PM
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Like other forms of discarded plastic, polyurethane waste threatens the environment and human health. In an…
3/24/20 5:10PM
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You won’t see many living things above the ocean surface hundreds of miles southeast of Madagascar—an albatross or…
12/04/19 4:23PM
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Meteorites are an unappreciated food source for a specific metal-loving microorganism, according to new research.…
9/27/19 9:40AM
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A research team is proposing a major philosophical shift in our thinking about the spread of Earthly microbes in…
12/12/18 4:25PM
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It may seem fantastical, but there is a living world deep, deep beneath our feet. Go below the soil, beyond the…
7/05/18 5:40PM
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Whether it’s rovers rolling about on Mars, probes drilling into asteroids, or Tesla Roadsters drifting through…
2/26/18 3:15PM
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A new study has documented for the first time how certain microorganisms are able to survive the extreme aridity of…
1/16/18 2:45PM
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The Black Death, a plague responsible for killing around a third of the population of Europe during the 14th…
11/04/16 2:31PM
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The US Centers for Disease Control has released a report in which it identifies over a dozen cases of a deadly,…
10/06/16 9:43AM
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7/21/16 2:00PM
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Hundreds of millions of years ago, a tiny green microbe joined forces with a fungus, and together they conquered the…
6/14/16 11:00AM
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Winemaking is always an exercise in uncertainty. You don’t really know just what the wine will taste like until the…
11/13/15 6:40PM
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Here’s a way to make environmental cleanup more fun: Next time you’ve got a polluted waterway, just unleash a swarm…
9/26/15 5:00PM
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Discovering life on another planet, only to contaminate that world with our own pesky microbes, is one of NASA’s…
7/24/15 11:20AM
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Researchers working off the Shimokita Peninsula in Japan have discovered living microbes buried 8,000 feet below the…
7/01/15 3:20PM
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By pitting various strains of bacteria against one another, researchers from Vanderbilt University have stumbled…