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Topic: microbes

DNA mirrored (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How mirror life poses existential risks

Carlyn Zwarenstein
DNA molecule and virus particles (Getty Images/KTSDesign/SCIENCEPHOTOLIBRARY)

Viruses are doing mysterious things

Libusha Kelly - The Conversation
Loaves of bread (Getty Images)

The science of sourdough

Daniel Veghte - The Conversation
Woman Suffers Stomach Pains (Getty Images/Grace Cary)

How gut bacteria breathe without oxygen

Nicole Karlis
Diver and schooling Tomtates on WWII U-352 German submarine sunk in Atlantic ocean off coast of North Carolina. (Getty Images/Karen Doody/Stocktrek Images)

Shipwrecks teem with underwater life

Avery Paxton - The Conversation
Bacteriophage infecting bacterium (Getty Images/Design Cells)

Vampire viruses prey on other viruses

Ivan Erill - The Conversation
Embroidery skull and roses, grapes, humming bird and flower (Getty Images/Matriyoshka)

Your microbes live on after you die

Jennifer DeBruyn - The Conversation
Microbes in space, illustration (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Will we know we've found aliens?

Nicole Karlis
Microbiome, illustration (Getty Images / ARTUR PLAWGO / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

How does the microbiome effect you?

Nehal El-Hadi, Mend Mariwany - The Conversation
View Of Earth's Moon Against The Sky At Night (Getty Images/Alexander Rieber/EyeEm)

Microbial life may exist on the Moon

Matthew Rozsa
Faecalibacterium prausnitzii bacteria (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Microbes in food may impact cancer

Athena Aktipis, Gissel Marquez Alcaraz - The Conversation
Deep-sea Fluorescent Illuminated Microorganisms (Getty Images/remotevfx)

Meet the life that lives without sun

Troy Farah
Enteroviruses, a group of RNA-viruses of the Picornaviridae family including Echo-viruses, Coxsackie-viruses, Rhino-viruses, Polio-virus and other (Getty Images/Dr_Microbe)

Newly-discovered organisms eat viruses

Troy Farah
A provoran, visualized by scanning electron microscopy (Tikhonenkov, Mikhailov, Gawryluk, Belyaev, Mathur, Karpov, Zagumyonnyi, Borodina, Prokina, Mylnikov, Aleoshin, and Keeling, Nature)

Microbial "lions" are a new type of life

Troy Farah
Bacteria Lactobacillus in human intestine (Getty Images/nopparit)

Modified bacteria can clean up pollution

Sara Molinari - The Conversation
Bacteria Lactobacillus in human intestine (Getty Images/nopparit)

Programmed bacteria make living material

Sara Molinari - The Conversation
A woman depositing a plastic bottle in a recycling bin (Getty Images/Andrew Fox)

Are microbes the future of recycling?

Ula Chrobak - Undark
(Getty/NKS_Imagery)

That stinky armpit smell? It’s not you

Madeline Barron - Massive Science
Microbial cells (Getty Images)

Scientists revive ancient microbes

Matthew Rozsa
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It's time to study fungus in microbiomes

Adriana Romero-Olivares - Massive Science
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Gut microbes: Important. What are they?

Abigail Johnson - The Conversation
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Food waste makes soil healthier

Matthew Wallenstein, Cynthia Kallenbach, Peter Olayemi - The Conversation
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Ocean mist is full of microbes

Jennifer Tsang
An evaporation pond holds contaminated fluid and sediment at the former Anaconda copper mine near Yerington, Nev. (AP/Debra Reid)

Can microbes clean up mine pollution?

Rose Jones
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