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The best wastewater treatment plants can't filter out superbug fragments

Even a very good wastewater treatment plant can't clean up fragments of superbugs -- bacteria that have developed a resistance to antibiotics -- and until now, almost no one has noticed.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Fungal spores travel farther by surfing their own wind (w/ Video)

Long before geese started flying in chevron formation or cyclists learned the value of drafting, fungi discovered an aerodynamic way to reduce drag on their spores so as to spread them as high and as far as ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Sep 27, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The fastest flights in nature: High-speed spore discharge mechanisms among fungi

Microscopic coprophilous or dung-loving fungi help make our planet habitable by degrading the billions of tons of feces produced by herbivores. But the fungi have a problem: survival depends upon the consumption of their ...

Biology /

created Sep 17, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Dangerous diarrheal bacterium found on asymptomatic patients

The bacterium that causes a highly contagious and sometimes deadly form of diarrhea is frequently carried by persons who do not have any of the disease symptoms, according to a study in the Oct. 15 issue of Clinical Infectious ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 21, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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