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Tiny Worlds

From the social network in the soil to the ecosystem in your body, it’s amazing what’s hidden just out of sight

Your saliva affects the way you spread pathogens

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Our saliva can vary depending on our physiological state, making us more or less likely to pass on bugs to others

Marnie Willman, University of Manitoba Bannatyne

Tiny radio tags reveal the lives of Neotropical stingless bees

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Lila Westreich, University of Washington

What engineers can learn about infrastructure from predatory army ants

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Celia Ford, University of California, Berkeley

A fluorescent sensor signals when yeast cells are getting stressed

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Colleen J Mulvihill, University of Texas at Austin

Two bacteria team up to poison their slime mold predator

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Josseline Ramos-Figueroa, University of Saskatchewan

Slime mold and cancer cells "sniff" their way through mazes by breaking down chemical molecules

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Xinwen Zhu, Boston University

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What if an RNA molecule could do it all over again?

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Harriet Bailey

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The Origins of Life...Again

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Researchers treat water filtration structures with candle soot, keeping bacteria at bay

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Iflah Shahid, University of Waterloo

Buyer, beware — cyanobacteria toxins in supplements are a serious health risk

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Dietary supplements made with blue-green algae also contain their toxins

Derek Smith, University of Michigan

Changing your microbiome could be as easy as taking a walk in the park

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Sophia Friesen, University of California, Berkeley

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Ancient poop analysis reveals extinct species of bacteria

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Simon Spichak, Neuroscience

Bioengineered bacteria can make dyes more sustainable

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Iflah Shahid, University of Waterloo

Fruit fly "cancer avatars" recreate mutations in tumors for personalized treatment

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Joyce Yu, The Francis Crick Institute

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Feeding gut bacteria may reduce anxiety in women

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Simon Spichak, Neuroscience

Marine archaea make oxygen in the dark using nitrite

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Elise Cutts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Animals that eat rotting meat have unique gut microbiomes

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Madeline Barron, University of Michigan

With a zap of electricity, scientists write a message into bacterial DNA for the first time

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Stephanie Batalis, Wake Forest School of Medicine

An array of bacteria and fungi help leafcutter ants break down toxic leaves

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The ants and the microbes work as a team to digest rainforest vegetation

Sophia Friesen, University of California, Berkeley

The muon g-2 experiment might mean the Standard Model of physics is incomplete, but that's just the beginning

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Katherine McCormick, University of Washington

Researchers identify a bacterium that enables its host to breathe nitrate instead of oxygen

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Irene Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Scientists starved E. coli for 1200 days to learn about bacterial evolution

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Madeline Barron, University of Michigan

The range of microbes in your sourdough starter affect its smell and rise

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Adam Fortais, McMaster University

Physicists take another step towards room temperature superconductivity

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Thomas Mittiga, UC Berkeley

New imaging technique follows antibiotics directly into tuberculosis-infected cells

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Anna Wernick, University College London

Fungi create genes to "win over" their plant friends and neighbors

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Attabey Rodriguez Benitez, Science Friday

Algae keep nitrogen savings to help them survive nutrient-poor ocean waters

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Rashi Ranjan, University of Pittsburgh

Sugar may trigger inflammatory bowel disease by breaking down gut mucus

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Mice fed sugar-heavy diets have worse colitis and more mucous-degrading gut bacteria

Madeline Barron, University of Michigan

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Mushrooms, virtual reality and a dose of nature: an interview with Winslow Porter

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Farah Qaiser, University of Toronto

These slimy underwater mats can help store carbon, but only if they can survive

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Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massive Science

Microscopic worms pee milk on their children as their bodies decompose

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Brittney G. Borowiec, Wilfrid Laurier University

Tardigrades glow bright to survive blasts of UV radiation

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Sree Rama Chaitanya, The Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics

Killing germs with slime bacteria M. llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochensis

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Dori Grijseels, University of Sussex

A 540 million year-old microscopic protist sex mystery is solved

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Meghan Zulian, University of California, Davis

New evidence for the first life on land comes from an ancient microbial fingerprint

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Rebecca Dzombak, University of Michigan

Chemistry detectives figured out how to best preserve and display Edvard Munch's The Scream

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Rosaria Cercola, University of York

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A smart ‘second skin’ shape-shifts to block out chemical weapons

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The smart fabric made of carbon nanotubes is light, breathable, and can change how first-responders deal with sarin

Max G. Levy, Science and Health Journalism

Scientists are searching space for extraterrestrial viruses

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Jordan McKaig, Georgia Institute of Technology

Deborah Jin engineered new quantum states of matter — twice

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Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Two mini microscopes watched a mouse’s brain move its body in real time

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Sruthi Sanjeev Balakrishnan, National Centre for Biological Sciences

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The sugar in semen makes HIV drugs less effective

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Marnie Willman, University of Manitoba Bannatyne

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Rapid DNA sequencing of unknown bacteria helps doctors choose which antibiotics to treat it with

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Allison J Matthews, Tufts University

Extreme microbes survive the desert by dissolving rocks with acid

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Max G. Levy, Science and Health Journalism

Scientists recreated a key step for the origin of life at hydrothermal vents

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Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

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To stop pancreatic cancer from spreading, cut out the chatter

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Max G. Levy, Science and Health Journalism

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Gamers are one-upping nature and computers by designing whole new proteins

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Building elaborate structures from scratch is difficult for computers, but in the hands of a gamer...

Luyi Cheng, Northwestern University

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Pregnant women must get their flu shots to help avoid future influenza epidemics

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Marnie Willman, University of Manitoba Bannatyne

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Swimmers, beware! A rare – but deadly – amoeba lurks at the bottom of the lake

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Bill Sullivan, Indiana University

When your gut bacteria talk, your brain listens and replies

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Yewande Pearse, LA Biomed

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