But only two of them — plants and animals — have any significant presence in the emoji library. All single-cell organisms are represented by a lone, nondescript “microbe” emoji (🦠 ...

Emoji, the little icons and characters that you send and receive every day, fall under the jurisdiction of the Unicode Consortium. The Consortium is the organization responsible for maintaining ...

Gone are the days you had to use the same plain-red heart emoji in every text, email, and Instagram caption. In 2023, your emoji keyboard features hearts in pretty much every colour, shape ...

Nov. 6, 2024 — When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, lava incinerated anything living for miles around. As an experiment, scientists dropped gophers onto parts of the scorched mountain for only ...

since the microbes included some that were still viable, some that could be infectious to humans and others that carried drug-resistant genes ...

A group of bacteria has proved adept at destroying the ultratough carbon-fluorine bonds that give “forever chemicals” their name. This finding boosts hopes that microbes might someday help ...

A new study from Hong Kong reports that some of the microbes found in a range of urban environments ... [+] are evolving to resist the cleaners we typically use to eliminate them. Just like humans ...

Instead, the microbe relies on an alternative metabolic pathway in which carbon dioxide is converted to an organic molecule called acetate, without any methane released in the process.

New research shows microbes in our cities are evolving to resist the very cleaners we use to eliminate them. It also identifies novel strains living in Hong Kong that were previously only found in ...

An unusual mode of energy metabolism points to primitive life processes—and new biotechnological applications. A very unusual microbe has been found at an ecological area called The Cedars (pictured) ...