With the human population expected to climb from 7.4 billion to more than 11 billion people by 2100, some scientists hope that manipulating the plant microbiome could open up new ways to meet the growing demand for food.
Biotechnology
Jul 12, 2016
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How small can the smallest organism possibly be? Is there a limit to how large an organism can be? These fundamental questions of biology span the fields of evolution, ecology, and astrobiology and are important to understanding ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 6, 2016
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Although most of the world's biodiversity is below ground, surprisingly little is known about how it affects ecosystems or how it will be affected by climate change. A new study demonstrates that soil bacteria and the richness ...
Environment
Sep 2, 2015
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Hundreds of feet beneath the Black Hills, a team of scientists and researchers snake through dark, narrow and silent corridors of ancient rock to reach their goal: what is thought to be some of the purest water on Earth.
Environment
Aug 29, 2015
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PHAs are plastics that are made by bacteria. PHAs also are eaten by bacteria.
Ecology
Mar 6, 2015
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A team of researchers with ties to several institutions in Japan has found an abundance of microscopic bacteria known as heterotrophs living on or near the ocean floor in the deepest part of the Mariana Trench. In their paper ...
When it comes to swimming, the bodies of some bacteria are more than just dead weight, according to new research from Brown University.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 21, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Rather than sit on its eggs to incubate them, the Australian brush-turkey buries them in rotting vegetation. While bacterial decomposition heats the eggs, it doesn't infect them. University of Akron scientists ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 15, 2014
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Paleontologists studying fossilized feathers have proposed that the shapes of certain microscopic structures inside the feathers can tell us the color of ancient birds. But new research from North Carolina State University ...
Archaeology
Mar 5, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Your smartphone now can see what the naked eye cannot: A single virus and bits of material less than one-thousandth of the width of a human hair.
Nanophysics
Sep 17, 2013
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