Topic: Microbiology
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Five places we might find life in our own solar system
Life on Earth occupies some bizarre places – pools of pitch, deep-sea hydrothermal vents, and lightless lakes buried under glaciers. While scientists hunt for hospitable planets circling other stars, the solar system has a few candidates. Here are five.
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In Pictures: Green algae invades China
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Bestselling books the week of 6/2/11, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 06/01
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Bestselling books the week of 5/26/11, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Zombie ant fungus, meet the anti-zombie-ant fungus
A new study has found that a zombifying ant fungus can be kept at bay by another pathogen.
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How a bizarre ocean current could create coral refuges (+video)
Warming in the Pacific could lead to new currents that create islands of refuge for corals, new research suggests.
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Change Agent
World Water Day 2012: Two innovations for purifying water
Harnessing the bacteria naturally occurring in water and using solar energy are just two innovations that may help bring clean drinking water to the world's poor.
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Five places we might find life in our own solar system
Life on Earth occupies some bizarre places – pools of pitch, deep-sea hydrothermal vents, and lightless lakes buried under glaciers. While scientists hunt for hospitable planets circling other stars, the solar system has a few candidates. Here are five.
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Change Agent
Rethinking Carbon Dioxide (CO2): from a pollutant to a moneymaker
Three startup companies led by prominent scientists are working on new technologies to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. The scientific community is skeptical, but these entrepreneurs believe removing CO2 can eventually be profitable and help cool the planet.
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Why you should care about Lake Vostok
If scientists find life in Antarctica's Lake Vostok, an ancient freshwater body locked beneath two miles of ice, it will greatly boost hopes of the existence of life on other worlds.
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Russians reach mysterious lake 2.4 miles below Antarctic ice
Russian scientists confirmed they have drilled down to a 20-million year old freshwater lake far below the surface of Antarctica. Could this lake hold clues to life on other planets or moons?
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Russian team drills into 14-million-year-old Antarctic lake
The lake is the object of a years-long project to study its waters, which may house life forms new to science.
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Custom-mutated bacteria converts seaweed to fuel
Bacteria have been genetically engineered to break down a previously inaccessible sugar in seaweed, called alginate.
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Orange juice being tested for a fungicide by FDA
Orange juice with fungicide? The FDA is stepping up testing of orange juice after a juice company alerted the agency to low levels of the fungicide carbendazim in orange juice brands.
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Enfamil recall: Wal-Mart pulls formula after death of newborn
Enfamil recall was initiated by the giant retailer. Health officials are investigating samples of the infant formula, but so far have not called for an Enfamil recall.
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Algae helps explains Antarctic ice sheet formation
Antarctic ice sheets first began to form some 34 million years ago, during a period of sharply declining atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, a new study of ancient algae suggests.
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover to 'lay the foundation' for search for life [Video]
The size of a small car, NASA's one-ton Curiosity Mars rover contains twice the number of scientific instruments as its predecessors, plus a drill that will allow it to bore into the Red Planet's rocks.
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Diggin' It
Soil: The most important aspect of gardening
Why and how it's important for gardeners to improve the soil in their gardens.
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Mysterious orange goo washes up in Alaska village
Mysterious orange goo: Tests have been conducted on the substance on the surface of the water in Kivalina. City Administrator Janet Mitchell told The Associated Press that the substance has also shown up in some residents' rain buckets.
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In Pictures: Green algae invades China
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Scientist captures amazing video of jellyfish migration
A researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution visited Palau and took a dive in the tiny island nation's Jellyfish Lake, and captured video of a swarm of Mastigias.
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Bestselling books the week of 6/2/11, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 06/01
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Bestselling books the week of 5/26/11, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Flat Gratitude
A poem.
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Staph in meat: Are US cattle and poultry over-drugged?
A new report warns that Staph bacteria are showing up in high rates at supermarkets, raising concerns about whether US meat and poultry industries rely too heavily on antibiotic drugs.
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Where solar power can't fly, artificial photosynthesis might
To fly a jet by solar power might take football-fields worth of solar cells; but to turn sunlight into liquid fuel via artificial photosynthesis could someday power jet airplanes.
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Editor's Blog
Making better tech: It's not 'magic'
From car windows to iPads, new technology begins with a 'wow' and ends with a yawn -- but by then we've moved on to the new thing.
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Alien fossils found in meteorite? Scientists urge skepticism.
Alien fossils have been discovered in meteorites from outer space, claims a NASA astrobiologist. Other scientists are urging caution.
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