Medicine & TechnologyContracting a pathogen doesn't guarantee illness. Check out this article to explore the "infectious dose" needed for microbes to cause sickness in humans.
A type of microbe with a different appetite was discovered by scientists in the Alps and Greenland with the ability to decompose plastic at low temperatures. Read the article to learn more.
An international collaboration found the fossils of methane-cycling microbes from 3.42 billion years ago, providing new insights on the potential habitability, or ability to sustain life, of early Earth.
Soil Microbes are already used in the developed countries to enhance agricultural productivity and protection. With various companies getting into Microbes production and looking for new markets, African Farmers finally find a solution for their crop woes.
Organisms like the cyanobacteria and blue-green algae were believed being around for billions of years where life started. Hence, there is no discovery yet of the oldest of all living organism or species on the planet, these recent discoveries are the leads.
If you're going to study something as vast as the world's oceans, it helps if you have a large cadre of scientists to sift through the data. And that's just what an international research team, led by University of Arizona scientists, have done. They are rolling out the results of a three-year expedition in which they cataloged over 150,000 tiny ocean creatures, most of which are brand new discoveries.
That restorative sea breeze you enjoy on your vacation is more complex than most of us realize. Now, researchers from the Center for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment (CAICE) have demonstrated that microbes in seawater influence our climate, shaping the ways that sunlight enters the ocean as clouds form. The study recently presented to the American Chemical Society shows that it is the microbes in the seawater that control the way sea spray enters into the atmosphere, and everything that follows that.