microbiology Archives

Searching for Life Underneath the Lost City 0
- Earth & Environment, Share Your Science
- August 27, 2019
The majestic white spires of the Lost City protrude out of a mountain located 800 meters below the Atlantic Ocean. In December of 2000, a team of researchers set out aboard the research vessel Atlantis to explore why a large undersea mountain formed along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. They serendipitously stumbled upon the spires and named
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The Bacteria that Make it Rain 0
- Earth & Environment
- July 21, 2013
David Sands suggested the intriguing possibility that bacteria might cause rain and snow. Strange as it may seem, water doesn’t actually freeze at zero degrees. In fact, even at temperatures as cold as -10°C, water still needs help turning into ice. Living creatures of all stripes have learned to take advantage of this curious fact
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Hope for Extraterrestrial Life In Our Solar System 0
- Earth & Environment, Space & Physics
- November 30, 2012
Science has shown time and time again that even when faced with seemingly unlivable conditions, life finds a way. Though cloaked in darkness for nearly 3000 years, 13 degrees below freezing, and swimming in water 7 times saltier than the ocean, the waters of Lake Vida in East Antarctica harbor living specimens of previously undocumented
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Your Belly Button Harbors Thousands of Species of Microbes 0
- Health & Medicine, Popular
- November 16, 2012
Sometimes the best science hides in the least suspecting places. Researcher Rob Dunn and his team recently published work that included the unenviable task of analyzing living samples from 60 human navels. The results were staggering. A total 2,368 bacterial species were isolated. Of those, 1,458 are new to science. 67 species appeared in most test
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