Despite decades of research, how ruminants deconstruct plant biomass in their stomachs is still something of a mystery. Now, an international team of scientists has identified a previously unknown family of bacteria and complex ...
Biotechnology
Mar 27, 2018
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When scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory took samples of a microbial mat community from a hypersaline lake to study community responses to environmental changes, they expected to find that the changing salinity ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 10, 2013
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Fungal geneticist Scott Baker rifles through a stack of petri dishes housed in a small refrigerator at EMSL. He selects a plate dotted with white cauliflower-shaped colonies of fungus, punctuated by one brazen smudge that ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 26, 2014
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Bacteria can move electrons at least half a millimeter across a scaffolding made by themselves, of themselves, even under starving conditions. This new finding by EMSL staff and users challenges conventional wisdom, which ...
Biochemistry
May 24, 2013
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Land use changes, nutrient depletion, and drought can make plant roots grow deeper into the soil. But scientists question how that growth affects carbon in the soil. Could more roots reaching deep soil layers result in more ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 1, 2019
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Predictive models of biogeochemical interactions in soils are more accurate and scalable if they consider the reaction chemistry that occurs in distinct soil pore structures, or domains. These findings are the result of integrated ...
Materials Science
Aug 9, 2013
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Hexavalent chromium is a major environmental contaminant at several Department of Energy (DOE) sites as well as other sites around the world. Iron-reducing bacteria can convert the oxidized form of iron in clay minerals, ...
Materials Science
Jun 18, 2014
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Today's demanding applications in chemical manufacturing, energy generation and storage, pollution abatement, and health care are driving development of new materials with catalytic and optoelectronic functionalities. However, ...
Materials Science
Sep 26, 2018
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One promising approach to stabilize uranium contamination in soils is to envelop the radioactive uranium into iron-bearing minerals like hematite. But how well does uranium bind with hematite and for how long? Scientists ...
Environment
Aug 14, 2018
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The physical and chemical processes that occur at the scale of individual soil particles dictate the way fluids flow underground over much larger scales. To more accurately predict how plumes of subsurface fluids, such as ...
General Physics
Jul 14, 2014
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