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Ground squirrels spend the end of summer gorging on food, preparing for hibernation. They need to store a lot of energy as fat, which becomes their primary fuel source underground in their hibernation burrows all winter long.

A new study stated that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a major threat to human health across the globe. Amid the increasing resistance of pathogens, including bacteria and microbes, there has been a paradigm shift on how scientists and researchers look at these pathogens.

A new paper shows that antimicrobial resistant infections contributed to 49.5 lakh deaths globally in 2019.

Birds use bacteria to produce odour, and if these microbes are altered, it could negatively impact their ability to communicate with others of its species or find a mate, according to a study.

UK: According to new research by Jeremy J. Hoffman, therapy with natamycin is associated with considerably higher visual acuity and fewer adverse effects when compared to treatment with chlorhexidine...

Sunlight is linked to the production of oxygen. Scientists in Denmark suggest that some organisms can also produce oxygen where sunlight doesnt exist.

For most of life on Earth, oxygen is essential, and sunlight is usually needed to produce that oxygen. But in an exciting twist, researchers have caught a common, ocean-dwelling microbe breaking all the rules.

Scientists looking at embedding microbes in plastics which will eventually dissolve material after use.

Almost all of the oxygen on Earth is produced via photosynthesis, but now biologists have discovered a microbe that has its own way of generating the gas

These were the scenes from mission control. shortly after, a tweet from the rover. it has been drilling into the surface and storing some of the rocks for a future mission to bring back. some of the samples may contain fossilised evidence of life. im not talking about martian little green man. probably not even fish! we are looking for microbial life or microbes or slime that you might find at the bottom of a pond. there is a type of things that are likely to, well, they did exist on earth 3.5 b...