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Scientists Discover 50,000-Year-Old 'Super Life' in Mexico

Scientists have found living organisms trapped in crystals that could be 50,000 years old. The organisms were found in a hot, but beautiful cave system in Naica, Mexico. These ancient life forms can be seen only with a microscope. They are dormant, w

SSS 2008-02-29

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin, this'll just take a minute. Next time you are shoveling snow off your walk, don't blame the weatherman, blame bacteria. Because an international team of scientists has found that micr

SSS 2008-07-30

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These days, antibiotics are no silver bullet. In fact, if you get them in the hospital, you may end up with an additional infection. Like the bug Clostridium difficile, or C. diffwhich infects more than 300,000 Americans a year and kills some 14,000.

SSS 2012-01-03

Ever wondered why mosquito eat some people up but leave others relatively unscathed. a new study find this prefential treament due to smells produced by the microscopic critters that cover our bodies. the reaserch is in the journal public library sci

SSS 2010-06-22

Each of us harbors a unique collection of bacteria, on our outsides and our insides. Now, scientists are finding that the bacteria you get at birth may depend on how you got here. Because babies born vaginally have a different set of microbes than th

SSS 2010-03-16

They say that who you hang out with says a lot about who you are. Well, the microbes that hang out on your fingers can point to exactly who you are. Because scientists at the University of Colorado in Boulder have been able to identify individuals ba

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SSS 2009-04-17

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? At Antarcticas Blood Falls, the ice is stained red by ancient, iron-rich water pouring out of subglacial lakes formed millions of years ago. The cascading water is e

VOA标准英语2014--Sex Matters for Sleeping Sickness Microbes

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科学美国人60秒 SSS Feed Microbes Oxygen to Help Clear Spilled Oil

On June 3rd, a train loaded with highly volatile crude oil derailed just outside the small town of Mosier in Oregons Columbia River Valley. More than 40,000 gallons of crude spilled out of the train. Some burned away in a 14-hour long fire at the sce

科学美国人60秒 SSS Early-Life Microbes Ward Off Asthma

Early-Life Microbes Ward Off Asthma太干净也不是好事儿 Asthma is a very prevalent disease in our society now. It wasnt so 50 years ago. And we now realize that the very early life microbes seem to have set you up or not for asthma. 在现在社

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It is a natural human impulse to think of evolution as a long chain of improvements, 人们自然会不由自主地想到，进化是个不断完善的漫长过程， of a never-ending advance toward largeness and complexityin a word, toward us. 一个

万物简史 第435期:小生物的世界(6)

We now know that there are a lot of microbes living deep within the Earth, many of which have nothing at all to do with the organic world. 我们现在知道了，有大量微生物生活在地球内部的深处，其中许多与普通的有机世界毫

U.S. researchers discover way to produce biofuels

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