It could help plants grow at temperature extremes
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Microbiology
A tiny microbe discovered by accident challenges the definition of cellular life
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And they could help some creatures adjust to changing climates
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Aggression doesn't always pay in dynamic microcosms
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By simulating ecological networks with microbes, researchers revealed properties that may make natural communities susceptible to invasion
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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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