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April 6, 2025
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Apr. 3, 2025 A genomic study of hydrogen-producing bacteria has revealed entirely new gene clusters capable of producing large volumes of ...
Apr. 2, 2025 An AI model trained on large amounts of genetic data can predict whether bacteria will become antibiotic-resistant. The new study shows that antibiotic resistance is more easily transmitted between genetically similar bacteria and mainly occurs in ...
Mar. 31, 2025 Every night, bats emerge out of roosts in massive numbers, creating what scientists have called a 'cocktail party nightmare' of clashing echolocations. Nobody knew how bats managed this severe sensorial challenge. Now, scientists have tracked bats ...
Mar. 25, 2025 Enzymes originally evolved in high-temperature environments and later adapted to lower temperatures as Earth cooled. Scientists discovered that a key shift in enzyme function occurred over evolutionary time due to amino acid changes distant from the ...
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Mar. 25, 2025 Deep below the Earth's surface, rock and mineral formations lay hidden with a secret brilliance. Under a black light, the chemicals fossilized within ...
Mar. 7, 2025 Scientists have decoded the metabolic strategies of certain sulfur bacteria. A new study reports that the bacteria are found worldwide and have a complex metabolism with modular ...
Mar. 18, 2025 The discovery sheds light on how certain bacteria -- including strains that cause food poisoning and anthrax -- form spores for ...
Mar. 12, 2025 Scientists identify a new way to detect life in outer space with currently existing telescopes. The method hinges on worlds that look nothing like Earth, and gases rarely considered in the search for ...
Mar. 6, 2025 Researchers have found that reef fish from the Arabian Gulf, the world's hottest sea, exhibit a higher tolerance to temperature fluctuations compared to those from more thermally stable coral reefs. ...
Mar. 5, 2025 Some bacteria deploy tiny spearguns to retaliate against rival attacks. Researchers mimicked attacks by poking bacteria with an ultra-sharp tip. ...
Mar. 3, 2025 Researchers have shown how a low carbohydrate diet can worsen the DNA-damaging effects of some gut microbes to cause colorectal cancer. The study compared the effects of three different diets in ...
Feb. 27, 2025 The balance between two types of molecules -- reactive nitrogen species (RNS) and reactive oxygen species (ROS) -- plays a crucial role in tackling ...
Feb. 25, 2025 Researchers have investigated the structure and light energy transfer efficiency of a protein complex crucial to the photosynthesis of purple sulfur ...
Feb. 19, 2025 Nitrogen is essential for all life on Earth. In the global oceans, however, this element is scarce, and nitrogen availability is therefore critical for the growth of marine life. Some bacteria found ...
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Feb. 19, 2025 New research reveals that ice algae can store nutrients which may enable them to colonize more of the ice sheet, darkening and melting ...
Feb. 14, 2025 The clownfish-anemone living arrangement is one of the most widely recognized examples of symbiosis. Researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding how anemonefish can live safely among sea ...
Feb. 13, 2025 A research team has developed two new autonomous navigation systems for cyborg insects to better navigate unknown, complex environments. The algorithms utilized only simple circuits that leveraged ...
Feb. 10, 2025 Researchers have succeeded in cultivating an ultra-small bacterial strain parasitizing archaea and classified it as new species and genus of Minisyncoccus ...
Feb. 3, 2025 New work offers insight into how early life adapted from a low-oxygen atmosphere to the one that exists ...
Jan. 24, 2025 Researchers have identified an unknown family of microbes uniquely adapted to the waterlogged, low-oxygen conditions of tropical peatlands in Peru's northwestern Amazonian rainforest. The new ...
Jan. 16, 2025 Researchers have discovered that bacteria can sense threats in advance through a general danger signal. Bacteria detect when nearby cells are dying and proactively form a protective biofilm. ...
Jan. 16, 2025 A new study sheds light on how a species of foraminifera, single-celled organisms found in almost all marine habitats, thrives in a dark, oxygen-free ...
Jan. 10, 2025 A new study has found that the composition of your gut microbiome helps predict how likely you are to succumb to potentially life-threatening infection with Klebsiella pneumoniae, E.coli and other ...
Jan. 3, 2025 Each year, most species of bacteria in a Wisconsin lake rapidly evolved, apparently in response to dramatically changing seasons, and then evolved ...
Dec. 31, 2024 A new species of black, slender moray eel has chosen the road less traveled, thriving in dim and muddy river mouths, unlike most of its marine relatives. It is found across the Central Indo-Pacific, ...
Dec. 18, 2024 Which microbes thrive below us in darkness -- in gold mines, in aquifers, in deep boreholes in the seafloor -- and how do they compare to the microbiomes that envelop the Earth's surfaces, on ...
Dec. 12, 2024 Scientists unearth a clue to the molecular mechanisms involved in N2O reduction by deep-sea hydrothermal vent ...
Dec. 11, 2024 Industry -- particularly the pharmaceutical industry -- is deeply reliant on bacteria in their production. Now, researchers present a 'superman suit' to put on the bacteria, so that they ...
Dec. 9, 2024 Characterized by darkness and intense pressure, the ocean's hadal zone seems uninhabitable, yet dozens of unique organisms call it home. Each species discovered there adds a crucial piece to the ...
Dec. 2, 2024 A groundbreaking study sheds light on the extraordinary evolution of anglerfish, a group of deep-sea dwellers whose bizarre adaptations have captivated scientists and the public alike. The research ...
Nov. 26, 2024 'Specialist' lifeforms that live under Arctic sea ice are at risk as the ice retreats, new research ...
Nov. 25, 2024 It has been a year ago since bacteria from war-wounded at hospitals in Ukraine were analyzed. The study showed that some of the bacteria types had total resistance to antibiotics. Now, the same ...
Nov. 8, 2024 Highland deer mice and their lowland cousins ventured on a simulated seven-week ascent to 6,000 meters. By tracking how the mice responded to cold stress and progressively lower oxygen levels, the ...
Nov. 8, 2024 A research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown symbionts of the corals have an extremely ...
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- Sophisticated Early Warning System: How Bacteria Respond to Threats
- New Study Provides Insight Into How Some Species Thrive in Dark, Oxygen-Free Environments
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- Study of Mountaineering Mice Sheds Light on Evolutionary Adaptation
- Deep-Sea Corals Are Home to Previously Unknown Bacteria With Extremely Small Genomes
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- Newly Discovered Cyanobacteria Could Help Sequester Carbon from Oceans and Factories
- Weddell Seals in the Antarctic Strategically Time Their Most Extreme Dives to Maximize Foraging
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- Giant Viruses Found on Greenland Ice Sheet
- Small, but Smart: How Symbiotic Bacteria Adapt to Big Environmental Changes
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- Researchers Find Unique Adaptations of Fungus Associated With Bee Bread
- Rabies Outbreaks in Costa Rica Cattle Linked to Deforestation
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- Marine Bacteria Team Up to Produce a Vital Vitamin
- Limited Adaptability Makes Freshwater Bacteria Vulnerable to Climate Change
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- Shy Sea Anemones Are More Likely to Survive Heatwaves
- New Method Reveals Hidden Activity of Life Below Ground
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- Scientists Extract Genetic Secrets from 4,000-Year-Old Teeth to Illuminate the Impact of Changing Human Diets Over the Centuries
- Secrets of the Naked Mole-Rat: New Study Reveals How Their Unique Metabolism Protects Them from Heart Attacks
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- Even Inactive Smokers Are Densely Colonized by Microbial Communities
- Protein Fragments ID Two New 'extremophile' Microbes--and May Help Find Alien Life
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
- With Discovery of Roundworms, Great Salt Lake's Imperiled Ecosystem Gets More Interesting
- Marine Heat Waves Disrupt the Ocean Food Web in the Northeast Pacific Ocean
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- Unlocking the Energetic Secrets of Collective Animal Movement: How Group Behavior Reduces Energy Costs in Fish
- Decline in Microbial Genetic Richness in the Western Arctic Ocean
- Photosynthetic Mechanism of Purple Sulfur Bacterium Adapted to Low-Calcium Environments
Thursday, February 15, 2024
- Do Sugar-Free Candy and Gum Give You Gas? Researchers Think They Know Why
- When It Comes to Bad Breath, Some Bacterial Interactions Really Stink