#microbes

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Can Artificial Intelligence Predict Earthquakes?Annie Sneed | Scientific American"Along with more sophisticated computing, he [Johnson] and his team are trying something in the lab no one else has done before: They are feeding machines raw data—massive sets of measurements

Organizations as diverse as the United Nations and Monsanto are in agreement that we need to double our food production globally by 2050 to feed the world’s population. But our current agricultural process is one of the biggest contributors to global warming. It emits more greenhouses gases than

We are entering an era of directed design in which we will expand the limited notion that biology is only the ‘study of life and living things’ and see biology as the ultimate distributed, manufacturing platform (as Stanford bioengineer, Drew Endy, often says). This new mode of manufacturing will

Life uncovered by the deepest-ever marine drilling expedition has been analysed by scientists. The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) found microbes living 2,400m beneath the seabed off Japan. The tiny, single-celled organisms survive in this harsh environment on a low-calorie diet of

Days after leaving the farm, agricultural workers can still tote farm-reared, drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in their noses. The pig-dwelling bacteria may cause infections in the workers and could put family and community members at risk, too. In a two-week study, researchers led by