microbes
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Using that environment as a guide, the researchers examined which Earth microbes could potentially withstand conditions near the Moon's South Pole.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Scientists were surprised that microbes like these could endure exposure on the exterior of the space station.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
"I would have expected these microbes to have dried out," said Regberg, who studies space station bacteria and was a co-author on the paper.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have found that gut microbes can transform nitrate and iron from food into molecules that may help protect against cardiovascular and metabolic disease.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
Certainly I’m no mad exterminator bent on killing devil microbes; on the contrary, I admire them.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
