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How Often Should You Wash Your Bed Sheets? Most People Don't Do It Nearly Enoughsleepy spotted Dog lies on bed under blanket with its owner, young woman is asleep. sleeping with pet in same bed. animal care, warm bed for pet. whippet is resting after walk.

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How Often Should You Wash Your Bed Sheets? Most People Don't Do It Nearly Enoughsleepy spotted Dog lies on bed under blanket with its owner, young woman is asleep. sleeping with pet in same bed. animal care, warm bed for pet. whippet is resting after walk.
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How Often Should You Wash Your Bed Sheets? Most People Don't Do It Nearly Enough

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Should You Bother Closing The Lid To Flush The Toilet? Probably, Unless You Want Microbes Erupting Into Your “Breathing Zone”bathroom with intensely blue tiles everywhere except the floor, with two windows above the toilet, a bath on the right and a sink on the left

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Should You Bother Closing The Lid To Flush The Toilet? Probably, Unless You Want Microbes Erupting Into Your “Breathing Zone”bathroom with intensely blue tiles everywhere except the floor, with two windows above the toilet, a bath on the right and a sink on the left
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Should You Bother Closing The Lid To Flush The Toilet? Probably, Unless You Want Microbes Erupting Into Your “Breathing Zone”

clock-iconSeptember 7, 2026

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There Are Lifeforms In Antarctica Found Nowhere Else On Earth, And Like A Miniature Version Of Pokémon, Scientists Want To Catch Them Alla huge mountain in the antarctic landscape

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There Are Lifeforms In Antarctica Found Nowhere Else On Earth, And Like A Miniature Version Of Pokémon, Scientists Want To Catch Them Alla huge mountain in the antarctic landscape
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There Are Lifeforms In Antarctica Found Nowhere Else On Earth, And Like A Miniature Version Of Pokémon, Scientists Want To Catch Them All

clock-iconSeptember 1, 2026

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“Revived” Protein Dating Back To The Dawn Of Mammal Evolution, 160 Million Years Ago, Hints At New Way Of Tackling Antibiotic Resistancerows of agar plates with different coloured microorganisms growing on them

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“Revived” Protein Dating Back To The Dawn Of Mammal Evolution, 160 Million Years Ago, Hints At New Way Of Tackling Antibiotic Resistancerows of agar plates with different coloured microorganisms growing on them
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“Revived” Protein Dating Back To The Dawn Of Mammal Evolution, 160 Million Years Ago, Hints At New Way Of Tackling Antibiotic Resistance

clock-iconAugust 26, 2026

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Life On Earth Appeared Not Once But Twice, Both Times Evolving From A Common Genetic CodeA hot spring in Yellowstone National Park, with a deep blue interior and bands of yellow and red radiating out.

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Life On Earth Appeared Not Once But Twice, Both Times Evolving From A Common Genetic CodeA hot spring in Yellowstone National Park, with a deep blue interior and bands of yellow and red radiating out.
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Life On Earth Appeared Not Once But Twice, Both Times Evolving From A Common Genetic Code

clock-iconAugust 10, 2026
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Living Magnets: Meet the Bacteria That Can Sense Earth's Magnetic FieldA coloured microscope image showing different coloured blobs of bacteria.

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Living Magnets: Meet the Bacteria That Can Sense Earth's Magnetic FieldA coloured microscope image showing different coloured blobs of bacteria.
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Living Magnets: Meet the Bacteria That Can Sense Earth's Magnetic Field

clock-iconAugust 5, 2026

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In September 2025, A Lab Error Left A College Class In Turmoil Thinking They’d Been Exposed To Deadly BacteriaNeisseria meningitidis growing on an agar plate

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In September 2025, A Lab Error Left A College Class In Turmoil Thinking They’d Been Exposed To Deadly BacteriaNeisseria meningitidis growing on an agar plate
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In September 2025, A Lab Error Left A College Class In Turmoil Thinking They’d Been Exposed To Deadly Bacteria

clock-iconJuly 29, 2026
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Just Like Us, The Great Barrier Reef Has A Unique Microbiome Made Up Of Over 300,000 Viruses And 500 New BacteriaClownfish are iconic, vibrant residents of Australia's Great Barrier Reef

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Just Like Us, The Great Barrier Reef Has A Unique Microbiome Made Up Of Over 300,000 Viruses And 500 New BacteriaClownfish are iconic, vibrant residents of Australia's Great Barrier Reef
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Just Like Us, The Great Barrier Reef Has A Unique Microbiome Made Up Of Over 300,000 Viruses And 500 New Bacteria

clock-iconJuly 23, 2026

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Frozen Pathogens Are Waking Up From Earth's Ice: Is Humankind Screwed Or Have Horror Headlines Tricked Us?zombie hand emerging from a rocky black and blue earth with two circles zooming out from it showing petri dishes of micro organisms. The background shows illustrations of microbes in white on a pale grey and there's a green logo in the top right that reads IFLScience Viral Summer.

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Frozen Pathogens Are Waking Up From Earth's Ice: Is Humankind Screwed Or Have Horror Headlines Tricked Us?zombie hand emerging from a rocky black and blue earth with two circles zooming out from it showing petri dishes of micro organisms. The background shows illustrations of microbes in white on a pale grey and there's a green logo in the top right that reads IFLScience Viral Summer.
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Frozen Pathogens Are Waking Up From Earth's Ice: Is Humankind Screwed Or Have Horror Headlines Tricked Us?

clock-iconJuly 21, 2026
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Uranium-Chomping Bacteria Found In Bowels Of Mine That Once Supplied Soviet Nuclear WeaponsEntrance to the Pöhla uranium mine, a major extraction site in Saxony, Germany, operated by the Wismut company from 1967 to 1990

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Uranium-Chomping Bacteria Found In Bowels Of Mine That Once Supplied Soviet Nuclear WeaponsEntrance to the Pöhla uranium mine, a major extraction site in Saxony, Germany, operated by the Wismut company from 1967 to 1990
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Uranium-Chomping Bacteria Found In Bowels Of Mine That Once Supplied Soviet Nuclear Weapons

clock-iconJuly 16, 2026

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Scientists Have Watched 80,000 Generations of Evolution Unfold In The Longest Experiment Of Its KindConfocal micrograph of Escherichia coli

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Scientists Have Watched 80,000 Generations of Evolution Unfold In The Longest Experiment Of Its KindConfocal micrograph of Escherichia coli
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Scientists Have Watched 80,000 Generations of Evolution Unfold In The Longest Experiment Of Its Kind

clock-iconJune 24, 2026

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You Share Up To One Fifth Of Your Gut Biome With Your Housemates, Regardless Of Who They Are2D illustration of gut microbes; a colourful depiction of a human abdomen and digestive system with multicoloured shapes representing microbes

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You Share Up To One Fifth Of Your Gut Biome With Your Housemates, Regardless Of Who They Are2D illustration of gut microbes; a colourful depiction of a human abdomen and digestive system with multicoloured shapes representing microbes
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You Share Up To One Fifth Of Your Gut Biome With Your Housemates, Regardless Of Who They Are

clock-iconJune 18, 2026

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22 New Cases In Salmonella Outbreak Linked To Moringa Products Across 36 US Statesmoringa powder, a bright green powder in a bowl, next to some of the stick-shaped vegetables and the small green leaves

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22 New Cases In Salmonella Outbreak Linked To Moringa Products Across 36 US Statesmoringa powder, a bright green powder in a bowl, next to some of the stick-shaped vegetables and the small green leaves
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22 New Cases In Salmonella Outbreak Linked To Moringa Products Across 36 US States

clock-iconMay 28, 2026

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Frozen Microbes From The Distant Past Threaten To Wake Up, Ready To Infect People, Plants, And Animalsa three-dimensional (3D) computer-generated image of three multidrug-resistant, Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria.

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Frozen Microbes From The Distant Past Threaten To Wake Up, Ready To Infect People, Plants, And Animalsa three-dimensional (3D) computer-generated image of three multidrug-resistant, Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria.
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Frozen Microbes From The Distant Past Threaten To Wake Up, Ready To Infect People, Plants, And Animals

clock-iconMay 22, 2026

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RFK Jr Has A History Of Doubting Germ Theory – Here’s How We Know He’s WrongRobert F Kennedy Jr pictured speaking on stage with a microphone in his hand.

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RFK Jr Has A History Of Doubting Germ Theory – Here’s How We Know He’s WrongRobert F Kennedy Jr pictured speaking on stage with a microphone in his hand.
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RFK Jr Has A History Of Doubting Germ Theory – Here’s How We Know He’s Wrong

clock-iconApril 20, 2026