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This Paper Microscope Costs Just 97 Cents
Foldscope is a paper microscope that fits in your pocket and can be assembled for less than a dollar. And it works, too.
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The World’s Largest Virus Was Just Resurrected From 34,000-Year-Old Permafrost
It’s not a threat to humans, but does show that ancient viruses can persist for millennia and remain a potential health threat
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Ancient Poop Had Antibiotic Resistance Genes, Too
14th century feces not so different from today
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Over the past twenty years, cases of the MERS virus might have gone undetected in infected humans
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The Cat Parasite That Causes Toxoplasmosis Is Turning Up in Beluga Whales
Native Inuits who eat Beluga whales risk infection if the meat is not thoroughly disinfected by cooking
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Grasshopper Gut Parasites Could Stop Ruinous Locust Swarms
The microbes confuse the chemical signals that tell pestilent locusts: swarm!
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How the “Sneeze Guard” Changed Buffet Tables Forever
A germaphobe invented the protective glass barrier over your all-you-can eat meal in 1959
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How Humankind Got Ahead of Infectious Disease
With polio on the verge of eradication, a career immunologist explains the medical marvel of vaccination and the pioneers who made it possible
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Scientists Find a New Way to Exploit and Attack Malaria
The stealthy parasite kills one million people a year; there may be a drug that can stop its deadly damage
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Top 10 Real-Life Body Snatchers
Parasites and zombies are not science fiction; they infest rats, crickets, ants, moths and other creatures, sucking the life out of them
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Can scientists stop white-nose syndrome, a new disease that is killing bats in catastrophic numbers?
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The chikungunya virus has escaped Africa and is traveling around the world via a widespread, invasive, voracious mosquito
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By studying microbial communications, Bonnie Bassler has come up with new ways to treat disease
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Chemist Angela Belcher looks to manufacture high technology out of viruses
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Top Ten Places Where Life Shouldn’t Exist… But Does
Smithsonian lists the most improbable, inhospitable and absurd habitats on Earth
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Finding Feisty Fungi in Antarctica
In a place where no one believed they existed–-treeless Antartica–wood fungi are feasting on polar exploration relics
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It’s hard enough to identify fossilized microbes on Earth. How would we ever recognize them on Mars?
As deadly bacteria increasingly resist antibiotics, researchers try to improve a World War I era weapon
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