4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About this Week – Episode 9

A new target for antibiotics, a dodecahedron device for the deep sea, electronic stickers to scale up the Internet of Things, and self-fertilizing bacteria with rhythm. It's your weekly briefing on the latest discoveries you might not hear about anywhere else, all with funding from the National Science Foundation.

Who did the research?
Studying aliens of the deep
Wyss Institute at Harvard University
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
More info: https://wyss.harvard.edu/studying-aliens-of-the-deep/

Bacterial armor could be a new target for antibiotics
Stanford University
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of California, San Francisco
More info: https://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2018/07/18/bacterial-armor-new-target-antibiotics/

Electronic stickers to streamline large-scale 'Internet of Things'
Purdue University
University of Virginia
More info: https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2018/Q3/electronic-stickers-to-streamline-large-scale-internet-of-things.html

Researchers engineer bacteria that create fertilizer out of thin air
Washington University in St. Louis
More info: https://source.wustl.edu/2018/07/researchers-engineer-bacteria-that-create-fertilizer-out-of-thin-air/