microbes

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He cites the 2024 finding on Mars by the Perseverance rover of “a biosignature of heavy-metal reduction by alien microbes, possibly the most incredible discovery of the century.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Using roughly 100 existing datasets, the scientists examined amino acids and fatty acids from microbes, soils, fossils, meteorites, asteroids, and synthetic laboratory samples.

From Science Daily • May 12, 2026

Researchers found that giving older mice back their own younger gut microbes produced striking effects throughout the body, especially in the liver.

From Science Daily • May 9, 2026

Coffee may modify what microbes do collectively, and what metabolites they use.

From Science Daily • May 3, 2026

Some microbes don’t wait for the old host to die and get eaten, but instead hitchhike in the saliva of an insect that bites the old host and flies off to find a new host.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond