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Newly-evolved microbes may be breaking down ocean plastics
There is less plastic in our oceans than expected because life is evolving the ability to biodegrade it, one team is claiming 聽
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Resurrected organisms reveal life鈥檚 bare essentials
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Life could exist up to 10 kilometres beneath the sea floor
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Life
Giant viruses may just be small viruses that stole hosts鈥� genes
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Recoded organism paves way to new genetic language of life
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Raindrops make soil bacteria take off and fly through air
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Next-gen microbiome drugs are now on sale 鈥� should you buy them?
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Primitive plants survive almost two years in outer space
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Vicious microbial warfare helps bacteria evolve cooperation
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Space
Dried-up slime could help microbes survive briny waters on Mars
Colonies of bacteria called biofilms live longer in Mars-like waters 鈥� especially if they were dried out first, as they would be after hitching a ride through space
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Baby turtles leave behind fleeting oases on beach dune deserts
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Antibacterial products may help bacteria beat antibiotics
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Ebola rapidly evolves to be more transmissible and deadlier
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Lightbulb made of modified E. coli fuses biology and electronics
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