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An ASU research team found that bacteria floating in tiny droplets of fog are active, growing and breaking down pollutants in ...

Fog’s microbial workforce: ASU scientists found that fog droplets host bacteria that actively grow and break down formaldehyde, a harmful air pollutant. Record detox rates: Bacteria in fog remove ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Prochlorococcus bacteria are so small that you’d have to line up around a thousand of them to match the thickness of a human thumbnail.

Conservation biologists propose a daunting task: protecting Earth’s diversity of bacteria and other microbes. By Carl Zimmer Hundreds of scientists have joined together to save a group of species from ...