Research Highlights

Selections from the scientific literature by Nature's news team

  • Volume 545
  • Issue 7655
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The inset image was projected onto a plate of pigment-producing Escherichia coli, causing the bacteria to make the image on the right. J. Fernandez-Rodriguez et al./Nat. Chem. Biol.

Synthetic biology

Colour pictures made in bacterial film

Engineered E. coli produce red, green and blue pigments based on light exposure.
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Moss samples collected from Ardley Island and other sites on the Antarctic Peninsula showed increasing moss growth due to rising temperatures. Dan Charman

Climate change

Antarctica is going green

Global warming has increased moss growth at sites across the Antarctic Peninsula over the past half-century.
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