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To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers … compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. This episode, we visit Los Medanos …

We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: … 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us …

The ocean depths are vast and dark. But there are hotspots on the … underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents — where lively microbial communities thrive, and even support entire … St. John, Gilberto Flores, and Peter Girguis about sampling these communities, and understanding how they’ve adapted …