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Parachutes Made of Mucus Change How Some Scientists See the Ocean

Keanu Reeves’s Latest Role? Fungus-Killing Bacterial Compound.

A New Approach to Spotting Tumors: Look for Their Microbes

Scientists Have Made a Human Microbiome From Scratch

Every Pore on Your Face Is a Walled Garden

This Ink Is Alive and Made Entirely of Microbes

Ever Feel Your Skin Crawling? Maybe You Can Thank Evolution.

These Birds Didn’t Have Chlamydia or West Nile. But They’re Still Dying.

Subway Swabbers Find a Microbe Jungle — And Thousands of New Species

A Mysterious, Lethal Chimp Disease Is Linked to a Human Illness

These Microbes May Help Future Martians and Moon People Mine Metals

How Bacteria-Eating Bacteria Could Help Win the War Against Germs

These Microbes May Have Survived 100 Million Years Beneath the Seafloor

Vampire Bats Self-Isolate, Too

Your Chicken Is No Longer Pink. That Doesn’t Mean It’s Safe to Eat.

At the Sourdough Library, With Some Very Old Mothers

The Bacterial Surprise in This Bird’s Smell

New Weapons Against Cancer: Millions of Bacteria Programmed to Kill

Wired Bacteria Form Nature’s Power Grid: ‘We Have an Electric Planet’

Sea Sponges: Nature’s Disinfectants