Plastic pollution is everywhere, and a good amount of it is composed of polyethylene terephthalate (PET, ♳). This polymer is used to make bottles, containers and even clothing. Now, researchers report ...

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The endosymbiont Candidatus Azoamicus mariagerensis and its ciliate host under the fluorescence microscope. Visible is the endosymbiont (stained yellow), and the ciliate host (stained purple). The ...

Wastewater surveillance allows researchers to track disease occurrence at a population level, informing health officials about disease trends in communities and potentially enabling earlier public ...

First used in the 1940s to monitor for polio, wastewater surveillance proved such a powerful disease monitoring tool that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the ...

Wastewater surveillance is an emerging science that can be a critical public health tool for infectious disease surveillance. However, it is currently limited by a lack of standardized methods, ...

Remnants of everything that humans ingest ends up in wastewater, including medications that people may be taking, like antibiotics. Low levels of antibiotics in wastewater can affect bacteria as well, ...

Scientists found that natural bacteria can eat methane, cut climate pollution, and turn waste gas into useful materials.

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