When the first antibiotics became available 70 years ago, they were often described as miracles of human ingenuity, rather like plastics or bright permanent dyes, which were discovered at roughly the same time. Packaged in ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 3, 2016
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It took Jackie Goordial over 1000 Petri dishes before she was ready to accept what she was seeing. Or not seeing. Goordial, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University has spent ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 19, 2016
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In addition to melting icecaps and imperiled wildlife, a significant concern among scientists is that higher Arctic temperatures brought about by climate change could result in the release of massive amounts of carbon locked ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 17, 2015
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The success of corals that adapt to survive in the world's hottest sea could contribute to their demise through global warming, according to new research.
Environment
May 20, 2015
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More and more of the world's waters are seriously lacking oxygen. Could we use pumps to bring oxygen and thus higher life back into these waters? A Danish/Swedish research team says yes. They installed pumps in a Swedish ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 23, 2015
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When oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill first began washing ashore on Pensacola Municipal Beach in June 2010, populations of sensitive microorganisms, including those that capture sunlight or fix nitrogen from the air, ...
Environment
Feb 17, 2015
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Rivers and streams could be a major source of antibiotic resistance in the environment.
Environment
Feb 13, 2015
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Oil reservoirs are scattered deep inside the Earth like far-flung islands in the ocean, so their inhabitants might be expected to be very different, but a new study led by Dartmouth College and University of Oslo researchers ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 12, 2014
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Some species of marine phytoplankton, such as the prolific bloomer Emiliania huxleyi, can grow without consuming vitamin B1 (thiamine), researchers have discovered. The finding contradicts the common view that E. huxleyi ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 29, 2014
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To enhance the study of subsurface microbial communities underlying the U.S. Department of Energy's Hanford Site, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory developed a novel analytical framework that advances ecological ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 30, 2013
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