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White Blood Cells Vs Bacteria

White blood cells are at once the intelligence agents and the crack commandos of the body’s immune system. They’re the special forces that hasten to the scene of an attack whenever germs or infections are entering the body. Their mission: to take out invading pathogens, and generally to defend against infectious diseases and foreign substances – like potentially malevolent bacteria.

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Bacteria Vs. Saharan Desertification

The Saraha desert is the largest hot desert in the world. Spanning some 3.5 million square miles (9 million square km), this desert is almost as large as the United States and is expanding south at a rate of about 30 miles (48 km) per year. To help slow or even stop this expansion, scientists have proposed using a species of our microbial nemesis that turns ordinary sand into sandstone to construct a huge containing wall in the desert.

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Can Bacteria End Drought?

I was one of the unenlightened people that thought we knew how rain works. Thunderstorms over Brazil, captured by the space shuttle Challenger in 1984 I assumed that rain was essentially the result of water vapor condensing in clouds and falling to earth. I never once considered [...]

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The Poo Theory of Life

Scientists have been attempting to explain the evolutionary explosion in the Cambrian period for decades, and I’ve found the absolute best explanation ever. Tiny ocean plankton The Cambrian period began a little over 500 million years ago. Before the Cambrian period, life

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