Bacteria & Viruses
This Is What You Need to Know About the Novel Coronavirus
Elements
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This Is What You Need to Know About the Novel Coronavirus

We sat down with two medical professionals to discuss COVID-19 — here’s everything you need to know about how to stay healthy and how well-equipped we are to handle the virus.

What Has No Brain, 720 Sexes, And the Ability To Self-Heal?!
Elements
S3 E116

What Has No Brain, 720 Sexes, And the Ability To Self-Heal?!

With its ability to self-heal and farm bacterial “crops,” slime mold is challenging everything we know about intelligent life.

The Search For an HIV Vaccine May Soon Be Over
Elements
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The Search For an HIV Vaccine May Soon Be Over

HIV is one of the deadliest viruses on the planet, newly infecting about 1.7 million people in 2018. But scientists are getting closer to developing a vaccine.

Why Does the Flu Come Back Every Year?
SICK
S3 E7

Why Does the Flu Come Back Every Year?

What is Influenza, and why does it always seem to be one step ahead of us?

How Scientists Discovered Nearly 200,000 Viruses Hiding in Our Ocean
Elements
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How Scientists Discovered Nearly 200,000 Viruses Hiding in Our Ocean

Just when you think the ocean couldn't get any weirder, it turns out there are viruses in it.

How Your Invisible Exposome Cloud Could Be Messing With Your Health
Focal Point
S4 E2

How Your Invisible Exposome Cloud Could Be Messing With Your Health

Microscopic bits can hitch a ride on your clothes, find their way into your body, and impact your personal health. They’re part of your exposome—and everyone has one.

Why Scientists Used Graphene Nanoribbons to Engineer Bionic Mushrooms
Elements
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Why Scientists Used Graphene Nanoribbons to Engineer Bionic Mushrooms

This is the first time researchers have created an "engineered symbiosis" by combining bacteria with nanomaterials to produce the next generation of bionic architectures

There’s a Subterranean Biosphere Hiding in the Earth’s Crust and It’s MASSIVE
Elements
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There’s a Subterranean Biosphere Hiding in the Earth’s Crust and It’s MASSIVE

This mysterious new ecosystem is being called the ‘subterranean galapagos’ and it’s almost twice the size of earth’s oceans. We’ve never seen anything like it.

Is the Cure for Superbugs Hiding Deep Under the Earth?
Science In The Extremes
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Is the Cure for Superbugs Hiding Deep Under the Earth?

Dr. Naowarat "Ann" Cheeptham is combing cave systems for brand new bacteria that may hold the answer to the growing crisis of drug-resistant infections, but the process is incredibly challenging.

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