Dr Andrew Hein

Ecologist and ethologist, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center and UC Santa Cruz Institute of Marine Sciences

Sciences & Technology

The superheroes of nutrient detection living in our oceans

New experiments and mathematical modelling reveal that bacteria swimming in the oceans are supremely evolved to detect and move towards hard-to-find nutrients

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