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microbes
Jenaye Johnson • January 4, 2024
Plastic-eating enzymes in the guts of mealworms are one of many bug-centric ideas being studied, but environmentalists say it dodges the real solution: use less
Ethan Freedman • January 28, 2021
How a neglected sourdough starter can go from a bubbling yeast factory to a smelly, moldy mess
Marion Renault • November 28, 2018
New York City ponds are teeming with microbes — one microbiologist is showing them to the world.
Marion Renault • November 7, 2018
At an academic symposium, researchers detailed the barriers and potentials of applying genome sequencing technology to the millions and millions of microbes populating our cities
Nell Durfee • October 9, 2017
As ice caps melt, microplastics are leaking into the water, for animals to eat
Peter Hess • April 26, 2016
Tardigrades are nearly indestructible creatures that live everywhere
Peter Hess • February 29, 2016
With Carl Zimmer and Zhiheng Pei
Greg Uyeno • January 23, 2016
Minor gene changes have major consequences for an ecosystem
Meghan Bartels • November 18, 2015
In the digital age, we’re all connected by electricity — and some microbes are too
Lydia Chain • October 27, 2015
Even though we can’t see them, microbes have an important role in the Hudson River
Katherine Ellen Foley • October 27, 2015
Even though we can’t see them, microbes have an important role in the Hudson River
Meghan Bartels • September 22, 2015
Missing microbes on science’s goofiest day
JoAnna Klein • December 1, 2014
Microbiologist Martin Blaser hopes to restore good microbes to our guts, but will the public take his message too far?
Katherine Ellen Foley • October 27, 2014
Research digs deeper into the effects of soil microbes on a warming environment
Kathryn Free • June 21, 2014
Why the toxin in Botox is so dangerous, and why we’re injecting it into our foreheads