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Tiny Worlds

From the social network in the soil to the ecosystem in your body, it’s amazing what’s hidden just out of sight

Researchers can trace the family tree of individual mutations inside our cells

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The task is like looking through a book with six billion letters for individual typos

Malosree Maitra, McGill University

Even cities have their own unique microbiomes

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Rita Ponce, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal

There's a connection between fasting, gut microbiota and blood pressure

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Mihaela Bozukova, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing

After decades of work, an effective cytomegalovirus vaccine is on the horizon

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Georgina To'a Salazar, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

How survival of the fittest can look a lot like rock-paper-scissors

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Sree Rama Chaitanya, Molecular Biology

Your gut bacteria may be hoarding your medication

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Madeline Barron, University of Michigan

Bacteria can live without food for over 1000 days

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Simon Spichak, Neuroscience

Your saliva affects the way you spread pathogens

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Marnie Willman, University of Manitoba Bannatyne

Tiny radio tags reveal the lives of Neotropical stingless bees

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Lila Westreich, University of Washington

What engineers can learn about infrastructure from predatory army ants

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Ants can teach us how to design strong networks resilient to individual failures

Celia Ford, University of California, Berkeley

A fluorescent sensor signals when yeast cells are getting stressed

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Colleen J Mulvihill, University of Texas at Austin

Two bacteria team up to poison their slime mold predator

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Josseline Ramos-Figueroa, University of Saskatchewan

Slime mold and cancer cells "sniff" their way through mazes by breaking down chemical molecules

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Xinwen Zhu, Boston University

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What if an RNA molecule could do it all over again?

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Harriet Bailey

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The Origins of Life...Again

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Researchers treat water filtration structures with candle soot, keeping bacteria at bay

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Iflah Shahid, University of Waterloo

Buyer, beware — cyanobacteria toxins in supplements are a serious health risk

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Derek Smith, University of Michigan

Changing your microbiome could be as easy as taking a walk in the park

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Sophia Friesen, University of California, Berkeley

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Ancient poop analysis reveals extinct species of bacteria

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Scientists analyzed bacterial genomes from 1000-2000 year feces

Simon Spichak, Neuroscience

Bioengineered bacteria can make dyes more sustainable

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Iflah Shahid, University of Waterloo

Fruit fly "cancer avatars" recreate mutations in tumors for personalized treatment

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Joyce Yu, The Francis Crick Institute

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Feeding gut bacteria may reduce anxiety in women

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Simon Spichak, Neuroscience

Marine archaea make oxygen in the dark using nitrite

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Elise Cutts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Animals that eat rotting meat have unique gut microbiomes

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Madeline Barron, University of Michigan

With a zap of electricity, scientists write a message into bacterial DNA for the first time

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Stephanie Batalis, Wake Forest School of Medicine

An array of bacteria and fungi help leafcutter ants break down toxic leaves

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Sophia Friesen, University of California, Berkeley

The muon g-2 experiment might mean the Standard Model of physics is incomplete, but that's just the beginning

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Katherine McCormick, University of Washington

Researchers identify a bacterium that enables its host to breathe nitrate instead of oxygen

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Meet Candidatus Azoamicus ciliaticola, discovered in a Swiss lake

Irene Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Scientists starved E. coli for 1200 days to learn about bacterial evolution

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Madeline Barron, University of Michigan

The range of microbes in your sourdough starter affect its smell and rise

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Adam Fortais, McMaster University

Physicists take another step towards room temperature superconductivity

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Thomas Mittiga, UC Berkeley

New imaging technique follows antibiotics directly into tuberculosis-infected cells

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Anna Wernick, University College London

Fungi create genes to "win over" their plant friends and neighbors

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Attabey Rodriguez Benitez, Science Friday

Algae keep nitrogen savings to help them survive nutrient-poor ocean waters

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Rashi Ranjan, University of Pittsburgh

Sugar may trigger inflammatory bowel disease by breaking down gut mucus

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Madeline Barron, University of Michigan

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Mushrooms, virtual reality and a dose of nature: an interview with Winslow Porter

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Farah Qaiser, University of Toronto

These slimy underwater mats can help store carbon, but only if they can survive

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Tamiko Thiel and Luisa I. Falcón are creating interactive art to help save the stromatolites

Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massive Science

Microscopic worms pee milk on their children as their bodies decompose

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Brittney G. Borowiec, Wilfrid Laurier University

Tardigrades glow bright to survive blasts of UV radiation

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Sree Rama Chaitanya, Molecular Biology

Killing germs with slime bacteria M. llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochensis

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Dori Grijseels, University of Sussex

A 540 million year-old microscopic protist sex mystery is solved

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Meghan Zulian, University of California, Davis

New evidence for the first life on land comes from an ancient microbial fingerprint

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Rebecca Dzombak, University of Michigan

Chemistry detectives figured out how to best preserve and display Edvard Munch's The Scream

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Rosaria Cercola, University of York

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A smart ‘second skin’ shape-shifts to block out chemical weapons

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Max G. Levy, Science and Health Journalism

Scientists are searching space for extraterrestrial viruses

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Jordan McKaig, Georgia Institute of Technology

Deborah Jin engineered new quantum states of matter — twice

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According to colleague Kathryn J. Levin, Jin "probably would have gotten the Nobel"

Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Two mini microscopes watched a mouse’s brain move its body in real time

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Sruthi Sanjeev Balakrishnan, National Centre for Biological Sciences

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The sugar in semen makes HIV drugs less effective

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Marnie Willman, University of Manitoba Bannatyne

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Rapid DNA sequencing of unknown bacteria helps doctors choose which antibiotics to treat it with

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Allison J Matthews, Tufts University

Extreme microbes survive the desert by dissolving rocks with acid

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Max G. Levy, Science and Health Journalism

Scientists recreated a key step for the origin of life at hydrothermal vents

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Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

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