microbes
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Known as living plastics, these materials contain dormant microbes capable of degrading the surrounding polymer.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
The microbes produce a protective material around themselves that helps shield the community from environmental threats.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
Most of the released material consisted of proteins and carbohydrates that free-living deep ocean microbes can readily consume.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
Those leaked nutrients become an immediate food source for microbes living in the surrounding seawater.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
It was the microbes that created methane—the farts—and methane was a greenhouse gas that trapped heat inside the atmosphere, making the earth hotter.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
