Can cigarette butts on the beach influence the local environment?
A study of burned and unburned cigarettes found that water chemistry and microbes living in Mediterranean beach sediments changed after 4…
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A study of burned and unburned cigarettes found that water chemistry and microbes living in Mediterranean beach sediments changed after 4…
Today, we know DNA is where we get our traits. We know we inherit our DNA from our parents, and that our DNA contains genes. We know that we…
Researchers studying a sulfuric acid cave in Italy are among the first to describe organisms found living in gypsum, an acidic mineral…
Are there better ways to detect the coronavirus in our body? A small study from China suggests antibody testing as a potentially more…
The Cassini spacecraft revealed the atmosphere of Saturn has large regions that don’t cycle to the poles and that the atmosphere is filled…
Microbes on Earth have adapted to survive in some pretty extreme locations. The extreme dryness of deserts, high salinity in salt deposits,…
Researchers found a hidden selenium cycle tied to manganese oxide minerals made by common soil fungi.
A group of scientists collected samples from some of the initially infected COVID-19 patients to show its similarities to other coronavirus…
When two stars orbit each other, it is called a binary star. In 2018, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Surveying Satellite (TESS) mission found…
As world news about the coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold, society’s collective knowledge and interest in viruses has increased.…