Research reveals that plant pathogens reuse phage elements for bacterial warfare

Credit: Public Domain Pixabay/CC0 Bacteriophages, viruses that attack and destroy bacteria, are ubiquitous in the natural world where they play a vital role in regulating microbial populations in ways that are not yet well understood. New research led by the University of Utah and University College London (UCL) has found that bacterial plant pathogens are … Read more

NASA’s Webb reveals that the long-studied star is actually a twin

WL20 group of stars is located in the Rho Ophiuchi star-forming region

Managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory through the launch, the Webb Medium Infrared Instrument also detected jets of gas streaming into space from the twin stars. Scientists recently got a big surprise from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope when they turned the observatory toward a cluster of young stars called WL 20. The region has … Read more