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Elise Cutts

All Stories by Elise Cutts

  1. an echidna standing in tall grass
    Animals

     These adorable Australian spike-balls beat the heat with snot bubbles

    An echidna’s snot bubbles coat the spiny critter’s nose with moisture, which then evaporates and draws heat from the sinus, cooling the blood.
  2. A photo of a researcher looking at a clear petri dish with blue dots on it.
    Health & Medicine

     Here’s how mysterious last-resort antibiotics kill bacteria

    Scientists are finally getting a grip on how a class of last-resort antibiotics works — the drugs kill bacteria by crystallizing their membranes.
  3. Shakleton Glacier
    Microbes

     Missing Antarctic microbes raise thorny questions about the search for aliens

    Scientists couldn’t find microbial life in soils from Antarctica, hinting at a limit for habitability on Earth and other worlds.