It turns out your belly button is like a rainforest, at least in terms of biodiversity. Scientists hope to clarify what the thousands of microbes that our navels harbor are doing, and why they're there in the first place.
It turns out your belly button is like a rainforest, at least in terms of biodiversity. Scientists hope to clarify what the thousands of microbes that our navels harbor are doing, and why they're there in the first place.
It turns out your belly button is like a rainforest, at least in terms of biodiversity. Scientists hope to clarify what the thousands of microbes that our navels harbor are doing, and why they're there in the first place.
It turns out your belly button is like a rainforest, at least in terms of biodiversity. Scientists hope to clarify what the thousands of microbes that our navels harbor are doing, and why they're there in the first place.
Your wallet is a portable petri dish. Each bill carries about 3,000 types of bacteria on its surface, mostly harmless. But your cash also has DNA from drug-resistant microbes, and maybe even smudges of anthrax and diphtheria!
Your wallet is a portable petri dish. Each bill carries about 3,000 types of bacteria on its surface, mostly harmless. But your cash also has DNA from drug-resistant microbes, and maybe even smudges of anthrax and diphtheria!
Your wallet is a portable petri dish. Each bill carries about 3,000 types of bacteria on its surface, mostly harmless. But your cash also has DNA from drug-resistant microbes, and maybe even smudges of anthrax and diphtheria!
Your wallet is a portable petri dish. Each bill carries about 3,000 types of bacteria on its surface, mostly harmless. But your cash also has DNA from drug-resistant microbes, and maybe even smudges of anthrax and diphtheria!
Like modern-day ruminants, giant plant-eating dinosaurs likely had microbes in their guts that gave off large amounts of methane—a potent greenhouse gas even more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide.
People who wash their hands with contaminated soap from bulk-soap-refillable dispensers can increase the number of disease-causing microbes on their hands and increase the transmission of bacteria in public settings.
Disease microbes tend to become more virulent in space. Now squid are going up in a test to see whether "good" bacteria, sharing a mutual relationship with the squid, go bad.
Disease microbes tend to become more virulent in space. Now squid are going up in a test to see whether "good" bacteria, sharing a mutual relationship with the squid, go bad.
Disease microbes tend to become more virulent in space. Now squid are going up in a test to see whether "good" bacteria, sharing a mutual relationship with the squid, go bad.
A blood-red waterfall pours very slowly out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys. The sealed lake from which it flows contains a primordial ooze of microbes.
The trapped microbes were discovered inside tiny bubbles in salt crystals buried in Death Valley, Eastern California, in a state of suspended animation.