Sentences with phrase «munching microbes»

This includes methane - munching microbes that live in rocks in the deep sea, helping to control this potent greenhouse gas.

Jeffrey Marlow, from the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology, and colleagues have found that the towering rocks lying at the ocean floor and near methane seeps, are the dwellings of methane - munching microbes.

In a new study, researchers claimed that a group of methane - munching microbes that live in rocky dwellings on the seafloor could be preventing large amounts of greenhouse gas from reaching the surface of the ocean and the atmosphere, where it could contribute to rising global temperatures.

This includes methane - munching microbes that live in rocks in the deep sea, helping to control this potent greenhouse gas.

Ammonia - munching microbes were probably very common — but they grew very slowly.

The findings indicate that 20 to 90 percent of the alteration evident in the upper 300 meters of crust may result from munching microbes.

In a new study of data collected in the months after the spill, scientists report that the numbers of methane - munching microbes plummeted while the gas was still abundant.

Then there's the lingering question of how effective chemical dispersants or oil - munching microbes are in the frigid Arctic environment.

Yang's team discovered their plastic - munching microbes by accident.

Burd decided to see if he could isolate naturally occurring plastic - munching microbes and get them to work more quickly.

Brett Baker, an assistant professor in the Department of Marine Science; Nina Dombrowski, a postdoctoral researcher in his lab at The University of Texas Marine Science Institute; and colleagues sequenced the DNA of oil - munching microbes to reveal the genetic potential in different bacterial species, including ones newly identified as important to the cleanup task.

Nearly 20 years ago scientists took samples of that rust, and found that it harbors a mix of iron - munching microbes.

«Microbe hunters discover long - sought - after iron - munching microbe.»

Not exact matches

Bacteria deprived of fiber's complex sugars began to munch on the protective mucus lining the intestines, bumping against the intestinal lining and sparking inflammation, Huang, Sonnenburg and colleagues reported in Cell Host & Microbe in 2015.

Hydrogen sulfide, a foul - smelling poisonous gas that microbes have been munching for eons, may be responsible for the health benefits and life - extending effects of reduced - calorie diets, scientists propose December 23 in Cell.

The microbes went on a space dust binge — consuming their samples in only 2 weeks as compared with the 2 months it took for them to munch through their Earth samples.

Munching on faeces might also be a way for the young to acquire essential gut microbes, says Maximilian Körner of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany.

Then they release a protein that breaks the plastic down into smaller molecules that the microbe can munch on.

And now there's solid hints that there's water - rock interactions going on that terrestrial microbes living at Earth's ocean vents like to munch on.

Just imagine — someday, your entire house could get its electricity from microbes sipping toilet water and munching garbage.

When the researchers substituted a diet with no fiber in it, even for a few days, some of the microbes in their guts began to munch on the mucus.

These microbes munch on carbon - rich soil, releasing still more carbon dioxide.