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Moonlight helps plankton escape predators during Arctic winters
It may be dark for months at a time close to the poles, but tiny zooplankton still commute to deeper water every day to avoid getting eaten
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Pigment-making microbes could replace dirty synthetic dyes
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We breathe in more bugs from our tap water than from our toilets
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Mining the hidden treasure of the world’s unknown bacteria
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Life
Two missions face off to seek life in icy seas of Enceladus
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Resistance to last-resort antibiotic has now spread across globe
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Pairs of habitable worlds could throw microbes at each other
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Bacteria build bendy plastic that astronauts could use for tools
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Mystery microbes in our gut could be a whole new form of life
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Earth
Ocean鈥檚 hidden green plankton revealed by fixing glitch in model
Assumptions about the green colour of microscopic organisms have led to overestimates about their decline as oceans warm
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Earth
Bacterial genes that turn mercury lethal mapped across world
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Earth
Endangered earth: The secret battle to save our soils
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Humans walk around in our own personal cloud of airborne bugs
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Key enzyme helps country kids ward off allergies and asthma
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