Antibiotic resistance is a health risk that’s growing just about everywhere you can imagine these days — including among the microbes living in the dust balls at your local gym, a group of American scientists recently discovered.
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Earth’s Depths Are Teeming With Otherworldly Microbes
Scientists have discovered a vast subterranean ecosystem of microbial life deep underground, stretching our sense of life’s limits. https://media.wired.com/photos/5c0ef9e163028d3ef5ca4baa/master/pass/crackedearth-629409381.jpg
How Math Can Help Unravel the Weird Interactions of Microbes
The dizzying network of interactions within microbe communities can defy analysis. But a new approach simplifies the math. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a665b6948619455b5450390/master/pass/MicrobialNetworks_2880x1620-2880×1620.jpg
Seeing the Beautiful Intelligence of Microbes
Bacterial biofilms and slime molds are more than crude patches of goo. Detailed time-lapse microscopy reveals how they sense and explore their surroundings, communicate with their neighbors and adaptively reshape themselves. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a0a014de9686d21749a59e9/master/pass/Physarum-polycephalumk_Lede-2880×1220.jpg Feed: All Latest
Earth Microbiome Project’s Ambitious Effort to Catalogue the World’s Microbes
It’s the most macro study of the microscopic world ever published. https://media.wired.com/photos/59f8a37d01d21974c5b9b2d3/master/pass/Lake-Stechlin-GermanyHP.jpg Feed: All Latest
What Gene-Swapping Cheese Microbes Could Say About Antibiotic Resistance
The search for lively bacterial communities led Rachel Dutton, a microbiologist at UC San Diego, to cave-aged cheese wheels. https://media.wired.com/photos/5978f0890c694f7e4119408f/master/pass/Cheese-Rinds-HP-200336739-001.jpg Feed: All Latest
Antibiotic-resistant microbes date back 450 million years, study finds
Antibiotic-resistant microbes have an ancestry that dates back hundreds of millions of years, even before dinosaurs roamed our planet, a new study says. CBC | Health News
50,000yo microbes discovered in Mexican cave
Mysterious microbes and viruses discovered in a meandering Mexican cave system could be up to 50,000 years old, according to new research. The ancient specimens were discovered by researchers from NASA’s Astrobiology Institute in an abandoned lead and zinc mine in Naica, northern Mexico. If as old as scientists believe, the microbes have likely survived […]
