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Scientists Found Creatures So Inactive They Expanded Our Idea of Life Itself
“It looks like the majority of these organisms are living at energy regimes that are below what we thought was even capable of maintenance—just staying alive.”
This Device Generates Electricity from the Air Using a Strange Microbe
“We are literally making electricity out of thin air.”
There's a 'Subterranean Galapagos' Deep Inside the Earth
“A decade ago, we had no idea that the rocks beneath our feet could be so vastly inhabited.”
Scientists Have Found Thousands of New Microbial Communities That Live in 'Healthy' People
They incidentally found 54 bacterial species—as well as fungi and viruses—we didn't know lived inside us.
Is It Worse to Sit or Squat on a Public Toilet?
When nature calls, your bladder doesn't care that the only stall looks like a neglected stable.
What Does a 16-Year Hunger Strike Do to Your Body?
On Tuesday, Irom "Mengoubi" Chanu Sharmila of Manipur in northeast India ended her nearly 16-year hunger strike by licking a smudge of honey off of her hand, but what effect has the strike had on her body?
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