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"The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument has completed its originally planned five-year mission and mapped more than 47 million galaxies and quasars, creating the largest high-resolution 3D map of our universe to date."
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Sea plastic. As an advocate of the benefits of microbes, I have been hopeful that some of them would step up to help us with the growing plastic problem. Unfortunately, that does not appear to be happening quite yet.
Quite the opposite in fact, microbes are using it as a habitat, rather than as a potential food source.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1123027
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Plastic pollution is a global problem. It damages ecosystems, endangers animals, and in the form of nanoplastic particles can also have consequences for human health. A global agreement to regulate plastic pollution is therefore long overdue. However plastic particles have also become a new habitat for bacteria, viruses, fungi, and algae. The ecological significance of this ‘plastisphere’ for natural communities is the subject of numerous research projects. In this study, for example, researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel have examined bacterial metagenomes. The results show that the genomes of microbes in the plastisphere are larger and contain more gene copies associated with functional processes than those of marine plankton. This adaption ensures their survival, the researchers write in Environmental Pollution.
⚽ In the English Premier League, 95% of original referee calls were overturned after video review
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