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microbes

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

January 28, 2021

How a neglected sourdough starter can go from a bubbling yeast factory to a smelly, moldy mess

November 28, 2018

New York City ponds are teeming with microbes — one microbiologist is showing them to the world.

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

October 9, 2017

As ice caps melt, microplastics are leaking into the water, for animals to eat

April 26, 2016

Tardigrades are nearly indestructible creatures that live everywhere

February 29, 2016

With Carl Zimmer and Zhiheng Pei

January 23, 2016

Minor gene changes have major consequences for an ecosystem

November 18, 2015

In the digital age, we’re all connected by electricity — and some microbes are too

October 27, 2015

Even though we can’t see them, microbes have an important role in the Hudson River

October 27, 2015

Even though we can’t see them, microbes have an important role in the Hudson River

September 22, 2015

Missing microbes on science’s goofiest day

December 1, 2014

Microbiologist Martin Blaser hopes to restore good microbes to our guts, but will the public take his message too far?

October 27, 2014

Research digs deeper into the effects of soil microbes on a warming environment

June 21, 2014

Why the toxin in Botox is so dangerous, and why we’re injecting it into our foreheads

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