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A research team has achieved a significant breakthrough in understanding the adaptive strategies of the deep-sea black coral ...

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Mapping the genomes of the bacteria responsible for yaws, a debilitating childhood disease, has uncovered new insights into ...

This is borne out by a poem by Hilaire Belloc, an old sailor and poet, who penned “The Microbe,” which begins, “The Microbe ...

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Bacteria form teams to hunt and survive, but lazy cheaters always try to freeload without contributing. Groundbreaking IISc ...

Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do ...

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