Researcher Devises Fantastic Plan to Colonize Space With Microbes First
Any permanent human space settlement will require beneficial microbes. With the recent celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo program’s first landing of humans…
Any permanent human space settlement will require beneficial microbes. With the recent celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo program’s first landing of humans…
Microbial communities living in deep aquatic sediments have adapted to survive on degraded organic matter, according to a study published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology and coauthored…
Typically, we don’t think too much about the inner workings of our air-conditioning units, even as we enjoy the relief they bring on sweltering days….
Like our oceans, today’s continents are brimming with life. Yet billions of years ago, before the advent of plants, continents would have appeared barren. These…
Researchers at CU Boulder have discovered microbes living in a toxic volcanic lake that may rank as one of the harshest environments on Earth. Their…
The expressions “Wash your hands” and “Home, sweet home” have more in common than you’d think. A whole universe more. The value of using soap…
A type of virus that dominates water samples taken from the world’s oceans has long escaped analysis because it has characteristics that standard tests can’t…
A new study reveals that under certain conditions gut microbes can consume enough of a key nutrient to cause a deficiency in their hosts. For…
New research from MIT shows that intestinal bacteria can stop a high-salt diet from inducing inflammatory response linked to hypertension. Microbes living in your gut…
An international team of engineers has developed an antimicrobial peptide that can destroy many types of bacteria, including some that are resistant to most antibiotics….
Scientists at Stanford University have developed a “microbial battery” driven by naturally occurring bacteria that have evolved to produce electricity as they digest organic material….
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute have discovered a microbe that is rejuvenated every time it reproduces. While aging remains an inevitable fact of life,…
In a new study, scientists reveal that -20°C (-4°F) is the lowest temperature at which simple life can live and grow on Earth. The study,…
Scientists have developed fully sterile fabrics by using enzymes that adhere antimicrobial particles with textiles. These fabrics could help eliminate infectious bacteria from medical textiles….
Smartphones’ proximity to people’s ears, nose, and mouth make them a good vector for transferring microbes. Bacteria and other infectious agents on smartphones can cause…
In the Rocky Mountains, the South Platte River system flows east through the Coloradan plateau which has plenty of cattle ranches, sheep pastures, dairy farms,…
The floor of the ocean is home to 2.9×1029 single-celled organisms but this large number, 10 million trillion microbes for every human on planet Earth,…
The microbiota in pregnant women’s gut change as their pregnancy advances, resembling more like those of people who might develop diabetes. These changes, while not…