“Difficult” bacteria has chainmail to protect it from antibiotics.
Science News reveals the secret that makes Clostridium difficile infections so tough to treat – an outer barrier called “the S layer” that protects the […]
Science News reveals the secret that makes Clostridium difficile infections so tough to treat – an outer barrier called “the S layer” that protects the […]
Science News is not panicking at all about the prospect of robots that can replicate copies of themselves that can then replicate copies of themselves: […]
Discover magazine discusses an unusual problem we haven’t had to face yet. How will Mars colonists handle their first funerals in an environment where human […]
New Scientist reveals the cost of building a brain from scratch has just gone way, WAY down: The device, dubbed a “microfluidic bioreactor”, is a […]
Eurekalert introduces the next generation of living robots. Tufts University biologists and computer scientists have created a second generation of tiny, biological machines they’re calling […]
Click to embiggen This is not an alien forest. It is also not a picture of the COVID19 virus. It’s an illustration from 2016 of […]
An image of yeast, originally made by NASA (though the context is now unclear, since the web page Wikimedia Commons sourced the photo from no […]
BBC is not intimidating us all with news that researchers with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology have treated a colony of dormant […]
Ireland’s RTÉ Brainstorm reveals how researchers are turning ordinary personal computers into a virus-killing supercomputer and recruiting gamers to solve puzzles that figure out COVID-19 […]
Click to embiggen From the USGS: This image is a cropped rendition of two aerial images that demonstrate satellite-derived cyanobacteria concentrations in surface waters from […]
Click to embiggen A snapshot of SARS virus particles – the coronavirus responsible for Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome – taken at Fort Detrick, Maryland, the […]
Fans of the scaly anteater otherwise known as the pangolin can take heart in Nature‘s latest report, that might not have been the source of […]
Science News reports on the humble jellyfish-relative that lives in the bodies of Pacific salmon and undersea worms, and gets along fine without any mitochondria […]
The New York Times covers a building material that could be a boon to the planet, a bacteria-enriched concrete that cleans the air and grows […]
Science magazine explores the gut-brain connection further with a study that finds gut bacteria can help us get over our fear responses… unless antibiotics have […]
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