microbes
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The US space agency announced last year that its Perseverance rover had found potential biosignatures, markings on rocks possibly made by ancient microbes.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
On Earth, when water reacts with olivine, the process can produce hydrogen that certain microbes can use as an energy source.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Metabolites are small molecules produced or altered during metabolism, including compounds created by gut microbes as they process food and other substances.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
Signals can travel between the gut and brain through immune activity, hormones, nerves, and chemical compounds produced by microbes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
But farmers are sedentary and live amid their own sewage, thus providing microbes with a short path from one person’s body into another’s drinking water.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
