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Dickson Despommier, Who Championed Farming in Skyscrapers, Dies at 84

Louis Pasteur’s Relentless Hunt for Germs Floating in the Air

Something Small Is Killing Great White Sharks

Something Small Is Killing Great White Sharks

A Century of Human Detritus, Visualized

Parachutes Made of Mucus Change How Some Scientists See the Ocean

This Cheese Stood Alone for 3,600 Years

Leonard Hayflick, Who Discovered Why No One Lives Forever, Dies at 98

Life After Asteroid Bennu

Mars Needs Insects

Male-Killing Virus Is Discovered in Insects

Old Faithful Is Boiling, Smelly and the Perfect Home for These Living Things

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 Fire-Loving Fungus Eats Charcoal, if It Must

This Ink Is Alive and Made Entirely of Microbes

Satellites Spot Oceans Aglow With Trillions of Organisms

This Tiny Creature Survived 24,000 Years Frozen in Siberian Permafrost