By simulating ecological networks with microbes, researchers revealed properties that may make natural communities susceptible to invasion
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Microbiology
These single-celled blobs show intelligent behavior
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The origins of life may lie in a mysterious life form at the bottom of the sea
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Author Thomas Levenson on writing his new book So Very Small about humanity's struggle to accept germs' threats
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At the dawn of microbiology, scientists glimpsed unseen worlds and stumbled into a philosophical purgatory
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H5N1 is a human creation
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How to solve biology’s chicken-or-egg dilemma
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Once lost in scientific obscurity, bacteriophage therapy is making a comeback.
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Some go gently into the night. Others die in freak accidents or deadly invasions, or after a showy display.
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How cyanobacteria killed one climate and created our habitable Earth.
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