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In the poorest and most densely populated areas on Earth, drinking water wells, dug to avoid the need to use surface water contaminated with bacteria, are poisoned by arsenic originating from groundwater. Now these too are in danger. Illustration: pixabay.

Death in the water: Arsenic is poisoning people around the world

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Researchers have discovered a bacterium residing in the common sponge Theonella Swinhoe, which stores huge amounts of the toxic chemical element arsenic, and can help develop methods for effectively cleaning water from the toxin. Source: Courtesy of Tel Aviv University.

Researchers have discovered a bacterium that stores huge amounts of arsenic

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Felicia Wolf Simon and one of her colleagues near Mono Lake in California

between two molecules

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The oldest modern human teeth discovered in Kesem Cave. Photo: Israel Hershkovitz, Tel Aviv University

Why did the ancient man from the beginning of the eye cause a storm on the Internet?

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Bacteria grown on arsenic. Photo: Judy Schweitzer Blum

NASA's discovery of an arsenic-using bacterium: a catalyst for a theological debate

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The first accurate test for the presence of arsenic

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