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10,000 germ species live in and on healthy people

Germs

They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut - enough bacteria, fungi and other microbes that collected together could weigh, amazingly, a few pounds....

 

Machines and microbes will clean up oil

Machines and microbes will clean up oil

There's no way to stop oily water from reaching land along the Gulf Coast, but experts will use tools both massive and microscopic to clean it up.

 

Microbe Wakes Up After 120,000 Years in Ice

Microbe Wakes Up After 120,000 Years in Ice

Tiny bacterium comes back to live after long, long time buried underneath Greenland ice.

 

Million-Year-Old Microbes Found Under Antarctic Ice

Million-Year-Old Microbes Found Under Antarctic Ice

Colony of sulfur-eating bugs lives without light, oxygen, has been cut off from rest of world for 1.5 million years.

 

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