A new discovery from scientists in Canada and Japan has revealed an organism that challenges the traditional definitions of life. This new creature, named Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, blurs the lines ...

Several problems associated with the presence of lipids in wastewater treatment plants are usually overcome by removing them ahead of the biological treatment. However, because of their high energy ...

Dead Trees Reveal Fungus Until now, the largest known organism was another Armillariaostoyae found in 1992 in Washington State. It covered 1,500 acresnear Mount Adams.

Reductive dechlorination of tetrachloroethylene (PCE) and trichloroethylene (TCE) was studied in well-defined microcosms prepared with aquifer materials from three locations. Electron donors and ...

Proteomics refers to the study of proteomes, but is also used to describe the techniques used to determine the entire set of proteins of an organism or system, such as protein purification and ...

From lab myth to field fact For years, towering worm piles were lab curiosities. Researchers could coax Caenorhabditis nematodes into spirals on Petri dishes, but no one could prove the trick happened ...

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