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Environment

How lab-grown lichen could help us to build habitations on Mars

Scientists cultivating partnerships of fungi and algae believe their invention has far-out implications for how we create the buildings of the future

Features

A hand holding glowing prion proteins, from which fossils and microbes emerge.

Life

A sinister, deadly brain protein could reveal the origins of all life

Features

Health

Common type of inflammatory bowel disease linked to toxic bacteria

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Life

Cloud microbes' colours could help us detect life on other planets

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The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being cooked up in the lab

Health

The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being cooked up in the lab

Features

The top image shows an untreated bacterium; the bottom shows a bacterium after 90 minutes of being exposed to the antibiotic

Health

Extraordinary pictures show what a common antibiotic does to E. coli

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Life

Weird microbial partnership shows how complex life may have evolved

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Life

E. coli genome has been remade with 101,000 changes to its DNA

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TB's extraordinary evolution reveals why the ancient disease lives on

Health

TB's extraordinary evolution reveals why the ancient disease lives on

Features

Discovering the marvels of mucus is inspiring amazing new medicines

Health

Discovering the marvels of mucus is inspiring amazing new medicines

Mucus does far more than just act as a protective barrier. Emerging research reveals ways to harness its power and deliver treatments for everything from yeast infections to inflammatory bowel disease

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Humans

Leprosy was in the Americas long before the arrival of Europeans

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Health

Your washing machine may not actually rid clothes of harmful bacteria

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Environment

Artificial light pollution could fuel growth of toxic algal blooms

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Life

We may have discovered how dark oxygen is being made in the deep sea

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