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91av Live 2019 highlights: Aliens, jet packs and Homo naledi

Talks that the 91av editorial team are most looking forward to at 91av Live, the world's greatest science festival, 10-13 October 2019

Health

Hans Christian Gram: The biologist who helped investigate bacteria

Some microbes manage to live in the inhospitable Atacama desert

Earth

Bacteria fly into the Atacama Desert every afternoon on the wind

Ibuprofen has been linked to changes in bacteria in a lab experiment

Health

Ibuprofen and other common drugs may help antibiotic resistance spread

The team have imaged Prometheoarchaeum syntrophicum using electron microscopes

Life

Deep-sea microbe could answer one of evolution’s biggest mysteries

Huntington beach

Health

Swimming in the sea completely changes the microbes on your skin

gut microbes

Health

A severe autoimmune condition may be triggered by ‘good’ gut bacteria

koala in hospital

Life

Koalas burned in wildfires can now be saved but the treatment is gross

Environment

Inside the audacious mission to map every microbe in Australia

Allergies are more common in young children

Health

Gut microbes may determine whether infants develop food allergies

Young immune systems may be particularly sensitive to food allergens in the absence of right gut bacteria, a study in mice suggests

Earth

Zombieland: The vast world of hidden microbes miles beneath your feet

Life

We contain microbes so deeply weird they alter the very tree of life

Space

NASA says the International Space Station is covered in bacteria

Space

Curiosity is entering what may be the best area to find life on Mars