Living mats from a variety of freshwater and marine environments, including hot springs, have been studied for reasons related to the biology and activities of component microorganisms and to their geological significance (e.g. Castenholz 1969; Gebelein 1969; Eggleston & Dean 1976; Brock 1978; ...
Marion Dreyfus notes the benefits of taking children to concerts and other grown-up activities: You pick up a great deal of incidental ambient intelligence at those concerts. Different venues rouse new parts of the dormant brain, making more synaptic connections and neuron networks grow. The new ...
A group led by Professor Ralf Rabus, a microbiologist at the University of Oldenburg, and his Ph.D. student Patrick Becker has made significant advancements in comprehending the cellular processes of a widespread environmental bacterium. The team conducted an extensive analysis of the entire metabolic...
Lisa Mayhew, a geochemist and geomicrobiologist at the University of Colorado Boulder, is one of those newcomers. To study the relationship between water, rocks and microbial life in extreme environments, she’s worked with deep-sea remotely operated vehicles, like the Woods Hole Oceanographic Insti...
Construction, deforestation, and other activities that disturb soil can aerosolizeC. gattiispores, causing infection in people and animals that live near the disturbed sites and breathe in the spores. “As we change the environment in unprecedented ways, we could see more diseases that affect peopl...