Singapore Science News API

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            "title": "Temple researchers help uncover and restore massive cold-water coral reef in Argentina",
            "description": "Erik Cordes, professor and chair of the Department of Biology, and PhD candidate Morgan Will are part of a deep-sea research project in Argentina focused on discovering and restoring largely unknown cold-water coral reefs.",
            "content": "The Great Barrier Reef is a vast, colorful ecosystem teeming with underwater life. It is the largest shallow water reef in the world and a household name. But scattered across the planet, up to a mile beneath the ocean’s surface, exists a more myster... [5167 chars]",
            "url": "https://now.temple.edu/news/2026-03-09/temple-researchers-help-uncover-restore-massive-cold-water-coral-reef-argentina",
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            "title": "Digital Reconstruction Reveals Face of ‘Little Foot,’ A 4 Million-Year-Old Human Ancestor",
            "description": "Scientists can now come face to face with an early human ancestor nicknamed Little Foot who lived 3.67 million years ago, thanks to digital reconstruction technology, according to CNN. Renowned paleoanthropologist Ronald Clarke identified four tiny bones in the University of the Witwatersrand’s museum collection and went on to discover Little Foot’s nearly pristine fossil in the 1990s in the Sterkfontein Caves northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa. Full excavation of the remains took a painstaking 20 years, but it was worth it.",
            "content": "Police in Australia's Northern Territory warned of \"crocs everywhere\" on Sunday and said they had moved more than a thousand people across the state into shelter after massive floods.\nThe state has endured heavy rains over the weekend, with the town ... [6557 chars]",
            "url": "https://english.aawsat.com/varieties/5249075-digital-reconstruction-reveals-face-%E2%80%98little-foot%E2%80%99-4-million-year-old-human",
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                "name": "Asharq Al-awsat - English",
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            "title": "Microbiome signatures of mangroves and salt marsh halophyte rhizosphere soil sediments: a metagenomic approach",
            "description": "In this research, the rhizosphere soil microbiome diversity of mangrove trees such as Avicennia marina, Ceriops tagal & Rhizophora apiculata and salt marsh halophytes Suaeda maritima, Suaeda monoica and Sesuvium portulacastrum from Karankadu mangroves of Tamil Nadu, India was investigated. The collected sample was profiled by 16S rRNA Illumina NovaSeq 6000 platform sequencing of V3–V4 amplicon region by metagenomic approach to investigate the bacterial communities related with the different mangrove species. Root-associated microbes of the mangrove trees play important roles in protecting and maintaining mangrove ecosystems. Bacteria were the most abundant domain followed by Archaea and Eukaryota; Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Firmicutes, Fibrobacterota, Chlorobiota, and Bacteroidota were found to be predominant phyla present in all samples; Unculturable environmental microbes were also detected, particularly abundant in S. maritima and S. monoica samples. Staphylococcus aureus, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Salmonella enterica, Streptomyces griseocarneus were the most abundant species observed in this study. The variations in bacterial community structure across these ecosystems may be influenced by the distinct environmental conditions of each sampled mangrove habitat. For the first time, our findings highlight the richness of microbial diversity in the Karankadu mangroves, providing essential baseline data and revealing differences between mangrove trees and halophytes. This study offers valuable insights for further investigation into the mechanisms governing rhizosphere microbiome interactions with their host environment.",
            "content": "Thatoi, H., Behera, B. C., Mishra, R. R. & Dutta, S. K. Biodiversity and biotechnological potential of microorganisms from mangrove ecosystems: A review. Ann. Microbiol. 63, 1–19 (2013).\nPellegrinetti, T. A. et al. The role of microbial communities i... [10375 chars]",
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                "name": "Nature",
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