At Tiny Scales, a Giant Burst on Tree of Life

06/08/2015 19 min
At Tiny Scales, a Giant Burst on Tree of Life

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A new technique for finding and characterizing microbes has boosted the number of known bacteria by almost 50 percent, revealing a hidden world all around us. The post At Tiny Scales, a Giant Burst on Tree of Life first appeared on Quanta Magazine