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Why is it hard to wake up at 6 am?

By ShamsMarch 30, 2018Health, Science6 am, hard, wake up, why

Why is it easy to stay awake until 6 am and so hard to wake up at 6 am pic.twitter.com/nF3dZq7Ou2 — World and Science (@WorldAndScience) 29. März 2018

Boosting armor for nuclear-waste eating microbes

By Guest PostOctober 31, 2014Environment6 am, allison speers, clean up, delong he, dena cologgi, detect water, gemma reguera, geobacter bacteria, groundwater, jonathan disselhorst, michigan state university, microbe, nuclear waste, sheila goodman, smart paper, uranium

A microbe developed to clean up nuclear waste and patented by a Michigan State University researcher has just been improved.

In earlier research, Gemma Reguera, MSU microbiologist, identified that Geobacter bacteria’s tiny conductive hair-like appendages, or pili, did the yeoman’s share of remediation. By increasing the strength of the pili nanowires, she improved their ability to clean up uranium and other toxic wastes. (more…)