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Specific Bacteria Can Eat Away Plastic

You know what they say, the world is your oyster… unless, of course, it’s covered in plastic. Sadly, that seems to be the case these days, as plastic pollution has reached epic proportions. It’s like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch…

January 25, 2023 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

Spicy Food Could Keep Your Gut Healthy, New Research Shows

Keeping your gut healthier can be complicated sometimes, especially nowadays. But if the latest findings by Penn State University in the US are correct, it could be a lot easier than expected. Two studies by researchers from the aforementioned university…

December 6, 2022 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

Researchers Find Mysterious Forms of Life in Lava Caves From Hawai’i

Next time you’re waiting for astronomers to find signs of life on other planets, you should seriously consider the possibility for our beloved Earth to amaze us in new ways. In new research published in Frontiers of Microbiology, scientists revealed…

July 25, 2022 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

The Real Danger of Public Bathrooms According to Science!

While absolutely necessary and even unavoidable sometimes, most people would rather not have to use public bathrooms at all and it’s no surprise to anyone! After all, they are usually dirty looking and just filled with all kinds of bacteria…

June 23, 2022 · by Katherine Baldwin · 0

Scientists Managed To Watch Storms Of Microbes Brew Inside Cells Via Weather Radar Tech

Scientists are currently experimenting with a radar-like weather system to observe how a storm of pathogens brews and evolves inside living tissue. The strategy is entirely new, the authors of the study say, and is based on a method comparable…

March 1, 2021 · by Anna Daniels · 0

Microbes Can Help Future Moon And Mars Residents Mine Metals!

An experiment conducted on the International Space Station proved that bacteria is effective at extracting rare elements from space rocks. Microbes may prove useful to future colonists surviving on celestial objects or elsewhere outside of our planet and trying to…

November 13, 2020 · by Asheley Rice · 0

Microbes Are The Key To Improved Health And Slower Aging

Life depends on several things. The latest discovery is that it depends on what we usually think it threatens it: the microbes. It shouldn’t be much of a surprise given that life emerged from them, and that, in a life…

February 14, 2020 · by Asheley Rice · 0

Groups of Microbes Help the Human Body

During the last ten years, many researchers have started to research the roles played by groups of bacteria and microbes found within the human body. Many of them contribute to processes like digestion, metabolism, or combating diseases. A team of…

December 13, 2019 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Microbes Store Millions of Tons of Carbon Dioxide

More and more studies are conducted about greenhouse gas and its impact on the atmosphere. The discoveries are showing that more carbon dioxide than we know previously is removed and stored naturally underground. The scientists have found the carbon dioxide…

April 26, 2019 · by Asheley Rice · 0

New Source for Antibiotics to Fight Superbugs, Found in The Microbes of Insects

Antibiotics represented the most significant discovery in medicine, tackling many bacteria- and fungi-induced diseases, such as tuberculosis, among many others. But the primary source for the production of such medications, soil bacteria, is almost tapped out now. Also, we’re facing…

February 4, 2019 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0