Article reviewed by Phoebe Lostroh, PhD from Colorado College. Stay up to date on the latest science with Brush Up Summaries. Louis Pasteur prepared the first liquid bacterial culture medium in 1860, ...

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The current climate change crisis is the result of carbon deposits that have taken many millions of years to build up being suddenly released into the atmosphere over the space of a few decades. But ...

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An artist’s depiction of an Asgard archaeon, based on cryo-electron tomography data: the cell body and appendages feature thread-like skeletal structures, similar to those found in complex cells with ...

A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ...

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Methane-eating microbes could help convert one of the most powerful greenhouse gases into useful ...