Sea spiders found farming methane-eating #microbes in cultivated biofilm https://phys.org/news/2025-06-sea-spiders-farming-methane-microbes.html

Diverse, epibiotic #methanotrophs serve as a source of nutrition for #DeepSea methane seep Sericosura. By Bianca Dal Bó et al. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501422122

"#MethaneSeeps are areas of the seafloor where #methane forms flourishing ecosystems... 3 species of #SeaSpiders were discovered to host dense layers of CH4-consuming microbes on their exoskeletons... and graze upon them with specialized mouthparts"

Microbial intelligence is impressive: some bacteria can form complex colonies, communicate, and adapt.

Meanwhile, I open the fridge, forget what I wanted, and stare at the yogurt like it's about to give me life advice.

The #Origins of #Algorithmic #Mathematics in #Ancient #Babylon : Medium

#HeatWaves may #Accelerate the #Aging process : Live Sci

Your #Gut #Microbes might #Encourage #Criminal #Behavior : Tech Review

Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks

Hi! Maybe "Monsieur le Microbe" needed some friends, so here we go: Bonjour, les microbes :D

Also bonjour to you. I hope you're having a swell day and an even sweller weekend

#Weather #Microbes

From BBC.com: Weather makers: How microbes living in the clouds affect our lives

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250610-the-microbes-that-thrive-in-the-clouds

We’ve Found #Sauropod Stomach Contents For The First Time, Revealing They Had Terrible Manners
#Sauropods as a group span around 130 million years of time, but this one came from the Winton Formation of Queensland in #Australia, home to animals that lived during the mid-Cretaceous. It appears that they were walking around with “gastric furnaces” that could break down food thanks to #fermentation and #microbes in the gut – no chewing required.
https://www.iflscience.com/world-first-fossil-discovery-of-sauropod-stomach-contents-reveals-they-didnt-chew-their-food-79536
https://archive.ph/q1n6w

New bacterial genome announcement from our team:

Draft genome sequence of Desulfobacterota strain M19, a mesophilic sulfur-disproportionating bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mra.00295-25

This new bacterium was found on a #DeepSea hydrothermal vent, 1663m deep under the Atlantic ocean surface. It can grow by both "eating" and "breathing" a single chemical—pure elemental sulfur.

Novel Fungus-Cyanobacterium Symbiosis https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2025/04/novel-fungus-cyanobacterium-symbiosis.html

A thallus-forming N-fixing fungus-cyanobacterium #symbiosis from subtropical forests https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt4093

"Despite resembling a lichen's vegetative tissue, their sample had an unexpected feature: it was made of interwoven cyanobacterial filaments that enclosed fungal hyphae. Both partners turned out to be previously undescribed species, different from those found in #lichens"

« Ils dévorent le #CO₂ » : ces #microbes venus d’enfers #écologiques pourraient changer la donne #climatique

https://www.innovant.fr/2025/05/20/ils-devorent-le-co%E2%82%82-ces-microbes-venus-denfers-ecologiques-pourraient-changer-la-donne-climatique/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/109822/ New strain of bacteria found on China’s Tiangong space station #astronauts #ChinaMannedSpaceAgency #ChineseScientists #Microbes #radiation #Science #Space #TiangongSpaceStation #UK #UnitedKingdom

To what extent can we predict future pathogenic #microbes? @acasadevall1 discusses why probabilistic predictions are difficult, but not impossible. #PLOSBiology
https://plos.io/3EXieQp

Electricity-Conducting Bacteria Could Help Advance Environmental Cleanup https://www.byteseu.com/990068/ #biology #Biotechnology #environment #MarineBiology #Microbes&Viruses

Reasons to Hope: synthetic #palmoil alternatives. These will be free of #deforestation - for real! Made from #algae #yeast #microbes, even CO2! Advocate for deforestation-free #palmoil alternatives #Boycottpalmoil ️ #Boycott4Wildlife

http://palmoildetectives.com/2022/09/11/reasons-to-hope-palm-oil-alternatives-made-without-deforestation/

Hotter temps trigger wetlands to emit more methane as microbes struggle to keep up https://phys.org/news/2025-04-hotter-temps-trigger-wetlands-emit.html

Hotter temps trigger wetlands to emit more methane as microbes struggle to keep up https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250423164047.htm

After 7,000 years without light and oxygen in #BalticSea mud, researchers bring prehistoric #algae back to life https://phys.org/news/2025-03-years-oxygen-baltic-sea-mud.html

Resurrection of a #diatom after 7000 years from anoxic Baltic Sea sediment: Sarah Bolius et al. https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/19/1/wrae252/7942337

"Such deposits are like a time capsule containing valuable information about past ecosystems and the inhabiting biological communities, their population development and genetic changes"

#ISEPpapers 26: October 2024 to March 2025 https://www.isep-protists.com/post/iseppapers-26

Your twenty-sixth digest of papers and preprints published by members of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology is here!

The Secret Magic Of Gophers To Help Restore Devastated Landscapes

“A team of American scientists sought to learn whether a team of burrowing rodents could help restore Mount St Helens after her 1980 eruption.”

by @GrrlScientist via #Substack 

#gophers #MountStHelens #Fungi #microbes #microbiology #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/the-secret-magic-of-gophers-to-help

The Secret Magic Of Gophers To Help Restore Devastated Landscapes

“A team of American scientists sought to learn whether a team of burrowing rodents could help restore Mount St Helens after her 1980 eruption.”

by @grrlscientist via #Substack 

#gophers #MountStHelens #Fungi #microbes #microbiology #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/the-secret-magic-of-gophers-to-help

#FYI #HerbSimmens #ClimateEmergencyForum #PeterCarter #PaulBeckwith #microbes #microorganisms

How the climate breakdown influences earth's microbiome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QofeVqHdQmw

New #ISEPpapers! Hijacking and integration of algal #plastids and #mitochondria in a polar planktonic host: Ananya Kedige Rao et al. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00392-6

"Hosts steal active plastids, mitochondria, and nuclei from the microalga #Phaeocystis... Stolen plastids increase in volume, and their photosynthetic activity is boosted... Stolen mitochondria transform into a network in close association with plastids"