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Microorganisms (Microbes) Defined

Single-celled organisms too small to be seen by the naked eye such as bacteria, yeast, algae, protozoans, plankton and viruses

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POPULAR MECHANICS Recognizes Life-Changing Innovations With the 2008 Breakthrough Awards

Published October 15, 2008, 8:29 am, Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance

Tonight, POPULAR MECHANICS will announce the winners of its fourth annual Breakthrough Awards at a ceremony at Hearst Tower in New York City. Sponsored by Bristol-Myers Squibb, the Breakthrough Awards celebrate innovations poised to change the world, and the personalities behind them. www.popularmechanics.com/breakthrough08

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Discovering a new life form in the hot springs of Yellowstone

Published October 13, 2008, 1:07 pm, PhysOrg

Geysers, mud pots, steam vents and hot springs in the region now known as Yellowstone National Park awed American Indians and early European explorers. Now, two million tourists visit the park in northwestern Wyoming each year to watch wildlife and view the spectacular scenery. Scientists home in on the hot springs, exploring their ecology and plumbing their scalding waters in search of highly ...

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Preventing the Misuse of Pathogens: The Need for Global Biosecurity

Published October 13, 2008, 4:35 am, Arms Control Association

The anthrax-tainted letters sent through the U.S. mail in the fall of 2001, infecting 22 people and killing five, hinted at the mayhem that could result from the large-scale release of a “weaponized” disease agent.

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Connellsville native expert in Antarctic

Published October 11, 2008, 9:19 pm, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

To many people, Antarctica is a frozen wasteland, but former Connellsville resident Brent Christner sees a frontier waiting to be explored.

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Bold Traveler's Journey Toward The Center Of The Earth

Published October 10, 2008, 12:04 am, BioresearchOnline

The first ecosystem ever found having only a single biological species has been discovered 2.8 kilometers (1.74 miles) beneath the surface of the earth in the Mponeng gold mine near Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Bold traveler's journey toward the center of the Earth

Published October 9, 2008, 10:24 pm, SpaceRef

The first ecosystem ever found having only a single biological species has been discovered 2.8 km beneath the surface of the earth in the Mponeng gold mine near Johannesburg, South Africa.

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  • Mars Craft Detects Falling Snow: Icy snow falls from high in Mars's atmosphere and may even reach the planet's surface, scientists working with NASA's Phoenix lander reported yesterday.

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  • DLC-ME | The Microbe Zoo: The Microbe Zoo is an educational resource about ecology and microbiology. The Microbe Zoo includes information about microbes and the habitats they dwell in as well as dozens of images of microbes. Visit the Microbe Zoo and sample microbial foods at the Snack Bar, learn about microbes and composting, and check out the speculation about microbes on Mars !

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  • The Mysterious World of Microbes!: Our bodies are home to trillions of microorganisms . They live on our skin, in our mouths, in our gut ? everywhere. In fact, a large part of who "we" are is actually something else, microbes. What are they, and what is their purpose? Are they just along fo

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  • 90 billion tons of microbial organisms live in the deep biosphere: Biogeoscientis ts show evidence of 90 billion tons of microbial organisms?expr essed in terms of carbon mass?living in the deep biosphere, in a research article published online by Nature, July 20, 2008. This tonnage corresponds to about one-tenth of the am

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  • Scientists use soil to develop superbacteria suppressant: Korean scientists said Tuesday (Jan. 8) that they have extracted a superbacteria suppressant material from a microorganism commonly found in the soil. The material taken from the actinomycetes microbe has been tested on laboratory animals with good result

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  • Deep sea vents yield new microbes: Hot vents deep in the ocean harbor thousands of previously unknown microorganisms , scientists report. By examining the DNA of microbes taken from two hydrothermal vents off the coast of Oregon, researchers identified as many as 37...

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