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Bacteria Gives the Green Light for Landmine Detection
Have you ever been told war stories over and over again by one of your relatives? Did they ever mention any injuries or deaths that happened courtesy of landmines? If so, you may be interested in the...
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Breaking: Cholera outbreak kills 40 in Papua New Guinea
cholera bacteria (source: http://remf.dartmouth.edu/images/bacteriaSEM/source/1.html) At least 40 people have died and 2,000 fallen ill in Papua New Guinea’s first cholera outbreak in 50 years,...
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Better Bricks are Made from Sand, Bacteria, and “the Stuff in Your Pee”
Image Source: Screen capture from Inhabitat.It’s been suggested that the most simple and common things in our everyday lives can be used to fix the world—if we can figure out how to use or combine them...
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Western diet woes: Food high in fat, meat and sugar fosters bad bacteria in...
photo by Bernard Polet (much ado about nothing on Flickr CC) The diet of the West, high in animal products, fat, salt and sugar, is increasingly associated with wealth and development. The growing...
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The invisible enemy
We disinfect everything all the time and not always wisely. While many of us are naturally immune against these invisible enemies, aka bacteria, others are born with a deficient immune system that...
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Bacteria the future of storage systems?
Image by Umberto Salvagnin (source: Flickr) A team of scientists from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) won the 2010 iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) competition organized...
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Superbug factories: Industrial meat and dairy farms could be the death of us all
photo by Farm Sanctuary (Flickr CC) No matter if you eat a 5 pounds of meat per day or are a strict vegan, intensive livestock farming is putting your life at risk. This is due to the routine and...
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