Category: Bacteria

  • Link About It: This Week’s Picks

    Link About It: This Week’s Picks

    [ad_1] Bacteria-based batteries, a new armored dinosaur, India’s forest bridges and more from around the web A Battery Powered by Bacteria and Sweat Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have engineered a bacteria-based battery that can produce power from human sweat. The key to their innovation is bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens, a bacteria that can […]

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  • A Battery Powered by Bacteria and Sweat – COOL HUNTING®

    A Battery Powered by Bacteria and Sweat – COOL HUNTING®

    [ad_1] Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have engineered a bacteria-based battery that can produce power from human sweat. The key to their innovation is bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens, a bacteria that can produce electricity and has been used to explore microbial batteries. However, its need to be fed a constant diet has limited its […]

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  • The Organic Source of Spring’s Distinct Scent – COOL HUNTING®

    The Organic Source of Spring’s Distinct Scent – COOL HUNTING®

    [ad_1] The unmistakable (and hopeful) scent that emerges around springtime has long been traced to an organic source: the soil-based compound geosmin. Scientists from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, the John Innes Centre and Lund University have attributed the familiar yet often unplaceable smell—much like a rainy day or freshly turned earth—to a “symbiotic […]

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