Tag: Microbes
If plastic comes from oil and gas, which come originally from...
Yael Vodovotz, The Ohio State University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all...
COVID-19 has spurred investments in air filtration for K-12 schools –...
Mark Thomas Hernandez, University of Colorado Boulder
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought increased attention to indoor air quality and...
How engineered bacteria could clean up oilsands pollution and mining waste
Vikramaditya G. Yadav, University of British Columbia
Rampant industrialization has caused our planet to warm at an unprecedented rate....
Chocolate’s secret ingredient is the fermenting microbes that make it taste...
Caitlin Clark, Colorado State University
Whether baked as chips into a cookie, melted into a sweet warm drink or...
In mice, a mother’s love comes from the gut
Bill Sullivan, Indiana University
There is perhaps nothing more heartbreaking and confusing than a mother who neglects her children.
Fecal microbe transplants help cancer patients respond to immunotherapy and shrink...
Diwakar Davar, University of Pittsburgh
The effect of a drug, or impact of a treatment like chemotherapy, doesn’t just...
Peatlands keep a lot of carbon out of Earth’s atmosphere, but...
Julie Loisel, Texas A&M University
Peatlands are a type of wetland where dead plant material doesn’t fully decompose because it’s too soggy. In these ecosystems,...
Ancient microbial life used arsenic to thrive in a world without...
Pieter Visscher, University of Connecticut; Brendan Paul Burns, UNSW, and Kimberley L. Gallagher, Quinnipiac University
Billions of years ago, life on Earth was mostly just...