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… between microbial life and environment, and using metagenomics to study these complex natural systems. Microbial communities living in hard-to-reach places that are considered to be inhospitable to …

… Jennifer Pett-Ridge of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has your backstage pass. …

… a bioenergy plant? Meet Miscanthus , an attractive addition to your garden and a potential fuel for the future. But, to be competitive in the market, both energy policy and …

… Xiaohan Yang, a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, believes they can. And, what’s more, that using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species …

… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's … been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  So a few years ago, when they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the …

… they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, …

… sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, but varied. They’re a great way to see how climate change affects freshwater ecosystems, and …

… reader, you’re reading this because either you are serendipitously here by accident or else are interested in …

… Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil … This episode, researchers take a look at what happens to that storage when a rainforest hits a drought. Tag along with …

… graduate thesis research opportunities at DOE laboratories.   …

… This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake … In this episode: a look at the supercomputing that stitches together large datasets with the assembler program MetaHipMer2. Oak Ridge National Lab is home to two supercomputers — Summit and Frontier — that process …