Life
Thousands of flamingos dine on colourful bacteria in this rainbow lake
Lake Bogoria in Kenya is home to a colourful range of microbial life and attracted 1.3 million flamingos that feasted on colourful cyanobacteria
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Health
Megan Rossi: Gut health – the secret to happiness?
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Earth
Photography: heating up the climate campaign
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Health
Is your microbiome making you sick?
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Space
The Martians have landed in London, and they’re hogging the camera
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Health
Probiotics are mostly useless and can actually hurt you
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Health
Is studying your gut bacteria key to good health or a waste of money?
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Evolution is making us sick and for the first time we can stop it
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Bacteria can be used to turn type A blood into universal type O
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When you ride the subway you share bacteria with everyone in your city
Unique bacterial communities exist on most Hong Kong subway train lines in the morning, but these merge during the day, also spreading antibiotic resistance
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How worried should you be about a new ‘superbug’ STI?
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Environment
Thought plastic was bad enough? Here’s another reason to worry
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How our bodies are rapidly colonised by bacteria when we’re born
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DNA reveals Romans helped spread TB across three continents
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