Tag: Bacteria - Page 3
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Can a Credit Card-Sized Chip Helps Scientists Determine What's Ailing Coral Reefs?
The advent of microarrays and advanced genomic technologies is making it easier for scientists to take a (much) closer look at some of the world's most confounding problems. Marine biologists have long wondered which
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Eating Dog Poop Could Be Good For You
Anyone who has ever seen Divine in Pink Flamingos will know that eating dog poop is not pretty, but in fact, according to Jane Brody in the New York Times, it may be an instinctive behavior that has helped us survive as as a species.
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A Picture is Worth: Improve Your Immune System
Sign in Amsterdam hotel. TreeHugger has often noted that we need a bit of good bacteria. Source via
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Chicken Trucks Leave Trail of Bacteria
For all of those who think drafting behind transport trailers is a great way to save fuel, take a pass on the chicken trucks. A new study by scientists at Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health has found that following them can result
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Shipping Containers Perfect for Emergency Waste Water Treatment
Clean water in disaster areas and developing nations is a major element in being able to deal with improvements. An ingenious use of shipping containers and waste water treatment methods is helping to make clean water and waste
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Say Hello to My Little Friend: Living Bacteria Biosensors to Detect Pollution
Say Hello to My Little Friend Detecting pollutants is extremely important. You can't do much about what you don't know, and with limited resources, you have to target your actions to where it will do most good. A new clever way to detect pollution using
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Compost Conundrum, Part II: Backyard Box, Indoor Bin, Or A Can-O-Worms?
It's amazing, but in a completely unscientific survey, it was found that quite a few people have fear of compost. I empathize, being of lazy disposition and a low 'ick' threshold. But the
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Green Eyes On: New Non-Dairy Probiotics and the Future of Food
After a weekend of fireworks, barbecues, and cuisine that may contain more than one hot dog or Jell-O fruit mold, we turn our attention to the gut. And a new breakthrough in probiotics.
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Newsweek Interview: Craig Venter's CO2-Eating Miracle Bacterium
This week's issue of Newsweek features an interview with Craig Venter, the "bad boy" of science whose work developing new bacterial strains capable of eating CO2 and producing fuels we've chronicled in recent
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Compost Conundrum: Backyard Box, Indoor Bin Or A Can-O-Worms? (Part I)
Let me just say up front that I've got a black thumb and a lazy disposition. It's taken me about ten years to go beyond backyard gardening 101, with many frightful failures. The only
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Lotus Sanitizing System Ozonator for Your Home
Ozone, the miracle molecule The miracle molecule, ozone, can be made in your own home now thanks to an award winning appliance, the Lotus Sanitizing System from Tersano. If you are up on green technology, you already know that ozone is a chlorine-free
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Soil Bacteria Thrive on Antibiotics: A Potential Reservoir of Antibiotic-Resistance
Soil bacteria have thumbed their ‘nose’ at antibiotics this week. A surprising study in the journal Science shows that soil bacteria can thrive on antibiotics alone. The bacteria apparently have no problem using our most trusted weapons against them as
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Best of Design Democracy '08: Accessories
We've been spotlighting Design Democracy '08 a lot this week; we love the idea of combining design, technology, mass customization and local manufacturing. The design competition that's looking at reconfiguring the way we consume things is confident
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Could Discovery of New Chlorophyll Give Plants the (Red) Edge in Solar Race?
It may not have the same zesty appeal as the human genome sequencing project - or, heck, even that of the common fruit fly - but the recent sequencing of Acaryochloris marina, a cyanobacterium that appears in
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E. Coli: The Next Big Source of Hydrogen Fuel?
The lowly, ubiquitous E. coli, long given a bad rap for its association with food poisoning (see: spinach) despite its more common beneficial roles in the human stomach, could yet gain a broader measure of
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Human Poop and Urine Provide Cheap Biogas Source in Uganda
In developing countries - where food is scarce and reliable energy supplies are even scarcer - necessity often becomes the mother of invention; so it is in Uganda, where farmers have resorted to using human urine and excreta -
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The Flatulence Battle: Kangaroos vs. Cattle and Sheep
Sure, it may sound silly (some might even say crass), but what we're talking about here is a serious push to slash greenhouse gas emissions - by taking advantage of the potency of kangaroo farts. Unlike cattle and
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USDA Loophole Means Your Meat Could Be Harboring E. Coli
It looks like there may be some reason to the USDA's madness: see, it's just that the agency has deemed it A-OK for meat companies to cook and sell you meat on which E. coli - yup, that's the one - has been found
