Sentences with phrase «tiny microbes»

Today, the impact of tiny microbes on the massive problem of plastic pollution is negligible.

Take a good look at this photo: It shows you 1.6 billion years old fossilized oxygen bubbles, created by tiny microbes in what was once a shallow sea somewhere on young Earth.

Studying how tiny microbes thrive in harsh environments could lead to better treatments for human diseases

Two of these groups are represented by tiny microbes, the Bacteria and the Archaea.

n isolated, iron - rich bay in the heart of East Africa is offering scientists a rare glimpse back into Earth's primitive marine environment, and supports theories that tiny microbes created some of the world's largest ore deposits billions of years ago.

Millions of tiny microbes on leaves, stones or our skin jostle for space.

Think of your body as a potential «habitat» for tiny microbes, just as a forest provides a habitat for bigger creatures like birds and squirrels.

The findings, published in the journal Nature Microbiology, have applications for responding to future oil spills and other ecological disasters, while shedding light on the ways in which tiny microbes played an outsized role in limiting damage from the 2010 spill caused by the explosion of a BP oil rig.

In the water above natural oil seeps in the Gulf of Mexico, where oil and gas bubbles rise almost a mile to break at the surface, scientists have discovered something unusual: phytoplankton, tiny microbes at the base of the marine food chain, are thriving.

While scientists don't know just what that life would look like, they can predict what effects such tiny microbes would have on Titan's atmosphere.

In both cases, innumerable tiny microbes are fixing or holding onto quantities of organic carbon large enough to be significant in the global carbon cycle.

They are found in most living things, including animals, plants and many tiny microbes.»

Tiny microbes called phytoplankton are churning away in the oceans, taking in carbon dioxide and producing the oxygen we breathe.

In fact, even tiny microbes are carbon reservoirs, but scientists tend to group small reservoirs into larger categories (e.g., ocean, atmosphere, biosphere), important at the global scale.

One of the fastest growing trees, poplars, may rely on tiny microbes in their leaves to fuel their growth.

As the tiny microbe adapting itself into a human space traveler over the billions of years on this planet we have a far greater responsibility to keep this life moving than we would if it was just some supernatural beings universe where the deity already knows everything that is ever going to happen.

Also, people occasionally became sick after ingesting the tiny microbes because the treatments weren't purified properly.

The tiny microbe works its magic at near - boiling temperatures, providing the first example of a blue - green alga capable of juggling multiple forms of energy production in such an inhospitable environment.

A tiny microbe one day could devour the millions of metric tons of polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, that pile up in landfills each year.

Results: Tiny microbes are hiding big secrets.

These tiny microbes are highly specialized and optimized for their environment, where they provide energy and chemical building blocks to larger life forms.

Mircea Podar of ORNL's Biosciences Division led a team that isolated the archaeon Nanopusillus acidilobi, cultured these tiny microbes — just 100 to 300 billionths of a meter in size — and can now study how they interact with their host, another archaeon (Acidilobus).

Your gut contains trillions of bacteria and tiny microbes — collectively called the microbiome — that mainly help with digestion and other bodily functions.

Covering everything about science and technology — from the outer reaches of space to the tiniest microbes in our bodies — Science Friday is your source for entertaining and educational stories and activities.

Space rocks, such as asteroids, might transport the first extraterrestrials that reach Earth: tiny microbes.

In a paper published this month in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, the researchers, including Prashanta Dutta, assistant professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and colleagues from the University of Akron, present an improved and more effective Coulter device, used for the detection of the tiny microbes.

Her latest book, The Microbiome Solution, is a deep dive into how and why some of our modern day living is actually causing more problems than we realized to the tiny microbes that keep us happy and healthy — household cleaners, air conditioning, processed food.

Instead, it could be your own gut flora — those tiny microbes living in your intestinal tract — sending you strong signals to devour sweets, salty snacks or other less - than - desirable foods.

And the agency at work in this unexpected process could be biology: the researchers found evidence that tiny microbes in the mountain soils were consuming sources of organic carbon trapped in the rock, and releasing CO2 into the atmosphere.