Bacteria constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria have a wide range of shapes, ranging from spheres to rods and spirals.
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How bacteria from Earth may help us colonize space
As humans reach out into the solar system, it will be necessary to use resources available on other worlds. Carrying building ...
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New study suggests we all might be children of alien organisms
Panspermia means “seeds everywhere,” and the concept represents the idea that life on Earth may have been seeded by biological ...
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Microbes are cleaning up all your e-waste — here’s how
If you were to stack up all the electronic waste produced annually around the world it would weigh as much as all the commercial ...
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In space, bacteria is even more deadly and resilient to antibiotics
China recently launched its Tianwen-1 mission to Mars. A rocket holding an orbiter, lander and rover took flight from the ...
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Scientists found bacteria inside rocks — here’s what that could mean for life on Mars
The discovery of bacteria inside rocks under the ocean surface suggests life on Mars may be more likely than previously believed. ...
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Scientists discover strong evidence of life on Mars
We've been expecting aliens from Mars for decades now, but what if life was vanquished on the red planet before evolution ...
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Scientists discovered a new way to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Since their discovery in 1928, antibiotics have become a common way of treating infections caused by bacteria, fungi, and ...
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MIT algorithm discovers antibiotic that can fight drug-resistant diseases
A deep learning algorithm has discovered new antibiotics that can treat drug-resistant diseases by killing 35 powerful bacteria ...
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New artificial evolution research could finally prove Darwin was right
An international team of researchers may have just figured out why single-celled organisms such as the AIDS virus and cancer ...
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Scientists are reengineering viruses to fight antibiotic resistance
The world is in the midst of a global “superbug” crisis. Antibiotic resistance has been found in numerous common bacterial ...
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Here's how body clock cycles affect our immune system
All life on Earth has evolved to cope with a rotating planet which results in the predictable transition between day and ...
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[Best of 2019] Slimy fish mucus can help chemists develop new antibiotics — here's how
One day in the future, you may take a pill to treat an illness – and owe your recovery to the tiny microbes that flourish ...
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How humans survived the plague for millenia
One of civilization’s most prolific killers shadowed humans for thousands of years without their knowledge. The bacteria ...
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Research: Bacteria can change shape inside humans to avoid antibiotics
Widespread antibiotic use is largely to blame for the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which is currently one ...
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Dinosaurs are dead, but there's still life inside their bones
One of the tricks you learn hunting dinosaurs in Canada is to look for orange. Dinosaur bones are dull browns, tans, and ...
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Animals and plants help engineers light up cities, detect explosives, and predict natural disasters
For decades, humans have modeled technology on observations of the natural world. But new discoveries about nature—and ...
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Freshness sensors for milk could dramatically reduce waste
Researchers have developed a new technique that can pinpoint, in real-time, the moment at which milk spoils inside a carton. ...
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Scientists bio-hacked E. coli to create synthetic life
Escherichia coli, nobody's favorite dinner guest, just had the distinction of becoming the first living organism to have ...
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This cool gas technology could kill 99.9% of deadly germs in the air
You can live without food for three weeks and without water for up to three days. But you can’t live without air for more ...
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New CRISPR tool could eradicate viral diseases with long-range DNA shredding
An international team of scientists recently unveiled a new CRISPR-based tool capable of shredding long portions of targeted ...
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A 'Google for bacterial DNA' is helping scientists fight drug resistant infections
Ever since I read a 2014 WHO report stating that antibiotic-resistant bacteria could kill more people each year than cancer ...
