House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...

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Frequent irrigation and intensive pesticide use in the specialty crop industry often result in the transport of harmful agrochemicals in return water, threatening production targets and water security...

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Biofilms are increasingly implicated as playing a major role in waterborne cryptosporidiosis. This review aims to synthesize all currently available data on interactions between Cryptosporidium oocyst...

Clark, Kashefi & Reguera show that minor variations in cation chemistry remodel the cell envelope of electroactive bacteria. This affects extracellular electron transfer and mineralization outcome...

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Bacterial biofilms dominate microbial life; however, their evolutionary genetics remain incompletely understood. Extensive replication of biofilm selection experiments by secondary school students can...

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In the ocean, viruses are known to mediate the carbon cycle, keeping dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in the microbial loop and preventing its movement into secondary consumers (1). However, few direct ...

Liu et al. (e01971-25) describe the evolutionary history of laccase isozymes in white-rot fungi and demonstrate links to the ancestral emergence of their lignin substate in plants.

Geobacter bacteria use conductive pili and redox-active outer membrane vesicles to mediate metal transformations critical to the effectiveness of bioremediation and energy technologies. Mechanistic kn...

53% of academics show signs of depression. This is a role design failure, not a resilience issue: we are managing 21st-century experts with medieval guild structures. To fix the crisis, we must abando...

This editorial by Applied and Environmental Microbiology (AEM) editor in chief Gemma Reguera (e02229-25) explores the innate and acquired nature of linguistic bias and its negative impacts on scientif...

Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summary.

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This minireview by Zannis-Peyrot et al. (e01766-25) discusses the many roles of phytobacterial extracellular vesicles (EVs) in plant-bacterium interactions, from colonization to interkingdom communication.

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One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...

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