At the US Army Corps of Engineers’ research facility in central Alaska, a unique tunnel descends underground. Measuring over ...
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The Permafrost’s “Revenant” Microbes Are Slowly Awaking. This Is Bad News for Climate Change
The frozen, barren soil of the Arctic isn’t as lifeless as it looks. Locked inside the permafrost is a strikingly diverse ...
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Scientists Resurrect 40,000-Year-Old Microbes From Alaskan Permafrost. What They Found Raised Worries About the Future of a Warming Arctic
The experiments offer new insights into one of the “biggest unknowns” in how the climate will change in the years to come ...
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Ancient Organisms Have Been Sleeping Beneath the Arctic for 40,000 Years—and Now They're Waking Up
Once they awaken, these microbes continue to break down soil and release carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere.
Researchers are calling for the conservation of teeny tiny organisms that normally get overlooked, and conservationists are ...
Bacteria from our toilets, the cold sore virus and thrush-causing yeast can thrive on our toothbrushes. But there are ways to ...
Researchers have developed a light-emitting sugar probe that exposes how marine microbes break down complex carbohydrates. The innovative fluorescent tool allows scientists to visualize when and where ...
Frozen in time, ancient microbes or their remains could be found in Martian ice deposits during future missions to the red ...
With this in mind, microbiologist professor Brenda Wilson of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has shared what you ...
A recent study from the CDC found a nearly 70% increase in the spread of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE).
Accessible copper is running out. More than 70 percent of global reserves are locked in ores that conventional mining ...
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