Unusual compounds in rocks on Mars may be sign of ancient microbial life

"It's a signature. It's a sort of leftover sign. It's not life itself. And it certainly could have been from ancient life, and that would have been something that was there billions of years ago, nothing that's currently there," Dr Nicky Fox, associate administrator of Nasa's science mission directorate, told reporters...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/sep/10/unusual-compounds-in-rocks-on-mars-may-be-sign-of-ancient-microbial-life

 

‘Vast’ mass of microbes being released by melting glaciers

Bacteria can fertilise ecosystems but need to be studied closely to identify potential pathogens, scientists say…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/17/microbes-melting-glaciers-bacteria-ecosystems

Could it be your gut keeping you awake at night? | Life and style | The Guardian

When we lie awake at night, unable to sleep, we usually blame stress, depression, anxiety, adrenaline or the memory of something stupid we said in 2003. But what if our guts were actually the culprit?...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/mar/19/is-your-gut-keeping-you-awake-at-night

And Now the Good News #255: Solar Eclipse!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHRIzlK_0i4&feature=youtu.be

How The Microbes Inside Us Went From Enemies To Purported Superhealers

"Microbes have always ruled the planet but for the first time in history, they are fashionable," writes Ed Yong in his new book, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life, on sale Tuesday.

Yong, a U.K.-based science writer, describes how humans ignored, feared and then lauded the "microscopic menagerie" living inside us and other animals. He explains how these resident bacteria, fungi, archaea and viruses, known collectively as the microbiome, form intimate partnerships with their hosts — contributing to everything from the glow of a squid's light organ to the development of our own immune systems....
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/08/09/489171611/how-the-microbes-inside-us-went-from-enemies-to-purported-superhealers?ft=nprml&f=1001

The microbial jungles all over the place (and you)

As we walk through our daily environments, we’re surrounded by exotic creatures that are too small to see with the naked eye. We usually imagine these microscopic organisms, or microbes, as asocial cells that float around by themselves. But, in reality, microbes gather by the millions to form vast communities. Scott Chimileski and Roberto Kolter describes how and why microbes create biofilms.