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Like humans, amoebae pack a lunch before they travel

Rice University

Some amoebae do what many people do. Before they travel, they pack a lunch.
In results of a study reported today in the journal Nature, evolutionary biologists Joan Strassmann and David Queller of Rice University show that long-studied social am…

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment, Health, Life & Non-humans

A pesky bacterial slime reveals its survival secrets

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Cambridge, Mass., January 7, 2011 — By rethinking what happens on the surface of things, engineers at Harvard University have discovered that Bacillus subtilis biofilm colonies exhibit an unmatched ability to repel a wide range of liquids — and…

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment, Health, Life & Non-humans, Technology

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