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These organisms’ private “mucospheres” play an outsize role in the planet’s carbon cycle

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New work maps a region’s nutrient landscape

A global look reveals contamination by antibiotics, antidepressants and other medications

Broad-webbed feet help them glide through rain-forest canopies

Here’s how they choose the right leaf for the job

Lowered conscious reasoning can aid sound-pattern recognition

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There’s a structural reason your sponge hosts so many microbes

Complex social information can be felt through a virtual touch

For the first time, researchers have used this bacterial tool to edit genes in human cells

The insects target red tones when they are exposed to carbon dioxide