microbes

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He cites the 2024 finding on Mars by the Perseverance rover of “a biosignature of heavy-metal reduction by alien microbes, possibly the most incredible discovery of the century.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

The findings come from a mouse study focused on the microbiome, the vast community of bacteria and other microbes living in the digestive system.

From Science Daily • May 9, 2026

An international team of scientists has uncovered new details about coral ecosystems, showing that each coral species hosts its own unique community of microbes.

From Science Daily • May 8, 2026

Coffee may modify what microbes do collectively, and what metabolites they use.

From Science Daily • May 3, 2026

We’ll then consider how the ancestors of microbes now confined to us transferred themselves from their original animal hosts.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond