Australia’s pink lakes: The remnants of ancient rivers now teeming with microbes that make rosy pigments
Lake Hillier is among Australia’s best-known pink lakes. (Image credit: Philip Thurston/Getty Images) FAST FACTS Call: Lake Hillier, Pink Lake and others Area: Western Australia Collaborates: -34.09487137998776, 123.20277096721424 Why it’s…
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Large Lakes Supplied Essential Element during Origins of Life, Study Suggests
The origin of life in the world needed a supply of phosphorus for the synthesis of universal biomolecules. Closed lakes might have collected high concentrations of this aspect on early…
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Swimming in Lakes with Still Water Can Lead to Legionella Infection, Researchers Say
Legionella is an irregular reason for community-acquired pneumonia that frequently provides with a prodrome of fever, despair, tiredness, and periodically diarrhea before breathing signs. This electron micrograph portrays an amoeba,…
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