Climate change is heating the oceans, which affects billions of marine microbes in ways scientists don't fully understand. In response, USC researchers have developed a model to forecast how these important organisms will ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 4, 2020
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Seawater is more than just saltwater. The ocean is a veritable soup of chemicals.
Environment
Feb 26, 2020
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When containing a massive disaster like an oil spill, small microbes play a big role.
Soft Matter
Feb 20, 2020
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The microbiome of our ancestors might have been more important for human evolution than previously thought, according to a new study published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. An adaptive gut microbiome could have been ...
Evolution
Feb 19, 2020
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If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, so the adage goes, it must be a duck. But if the duck gets infected by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a duck? For a team led by researchers ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 11, 2020
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Tiny, symbiotic fungi play an outsized role in helping plants survive stresses like drought and extreme temperatures, which could help feed a planet experiencing climate change, report scientists at Washington State University.
Ecology
Jan 30, 2020
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A team of researchers led by Yale-NUS College Professor of Science (Environmental Studies) Stephen Pointing has discovered a link between two different ecosystems, continental Australia and the Great Barrier Reef, due to ...
Ecology
Jan 29, 2020
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Indoor dust is evolving—and not in a good way.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 23, 2020
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The essential roles that microbes play in deep-sea ecosystems are at risk from the potential environmental impacts of mining, a new paper in Limnology and Oceanography reports. The study reviews what is known about microbes ...
Environment
Jan 14, 2020
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A single drop of seawater can contain a wide representation of ocean microbes from around the world—revealing novel insights into the ecology, evolution and biotechnology potential of the global microbiome. A new publication ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 12, 2019
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