(Natural News) Marine microorganisms may also be threatened by plastic pollution in the ocean. Since one type of photosynthetic bacteria accounts for 10 percent of the oxygen production on Earth, we need to take steps to protect the microbes before we run out of breathable air. Australian researchers issued a warning following their recently published […]

(Natural News) American researchers force-fed gold nanoparticles to a non-photosynthetic bacteria. The offering of precious metal bits gave the microbe the ability to turn light into solar fuel, reported a Nanowerk article. Moorella thermoacetica is not normally capable of photosynthesis. Researchers from the University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley) added cadmium sulfide nanoparticles to the […]

(Natural News) The vast majority of heart attacks are caused by heart disease, which is known as the “silent killer.” The Heart Foundation reports that heart disease is the leading cause of death among both men and women in the United States, and causes someone to have a heart attack every 34 seconds. All told, about 720,000 […]