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To learn more about Florida International University's research, visit FIU.edu A person’s genes alone don’t tell us enough about how to most effectively treat their cancer.

Most living things on Earth need oxygen to survive, but scientists discovered a species of bacteria that uses oxygen totally differently from every other organism on Earth.

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Petri dishes are filled with nutrient agar and used as food for bacteria - but only a few species will actually grow on them. And if we can't grow them, then we can't study them either.

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Download the Tab For Democracy browser extension at tabfordemocracy.org/minuteearth2 Despite the seemingly basic things we don't know about dinosaurs, we do know some surprising things –

The animals we eat generally don't eat other animals - why is that?

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It looks SO gross (and IS kinda gross) but some animals need to digest their food twice to get all the nutrients out of their meal.

Thanks to the ASCEND project for partnering with us on this video! Plants can tell when competitors are nearby because they can *see* them.

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One of the best ways of studying bacteria is to grow them on a petri dish, but only a tiny percentage of bacterial species will grow on them. The other 98% of them simply refuse to.

When we say a meme goes “viral,” we aren't actually saying it's making people sick. But the math behind a meme’s spread suggests it's actually a pretty spot-on analogy.

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Honeybees are dying from parasites, pesticides, and poor nutrition, but we can help them in a number of ways. One of them is by encouraging them to make their own antibiotic: propolis!

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They say you eat with your eyes first. And they (whoever 'they' are) seem to be right. Would you eat a poop-shaped treat or do you save things like that for Halloween?

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Black bears in North America are actually doing pretty well! However, the same thing is not the case for their Asian cousins. So why do some species thrive while others falter?

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Cement is responsible for 8% of humanity’s carbon dioxide emissions, which is a problem if we want to build more cities.