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Researchers at Duke University have uncovered a basic but surprising fact: A kitchen sponge is a better incubator for diverse bacterial communities than a laboratory petri dish. But it’s not just the trapped leftovers that make the cornucopia of microbes swarming around so …

Wildfires are devastating, but they can also bring new life by clearing existing vegetation and allowing new plants to spring up. Many plants in fire-prone areas require exposure to fire for seeds to germinate.

In the past decade, scientists discovered an ancient …