Day: July 29, 2025

Some organisms need only air to survive. As a Swiss research team has demonstrated, certain bacteria can obtain energy directly from the air. This means they do not depend on sunlight or other energy sources. A team led by biochemist Christoph von Ballmoos from the University of Bern has successfully replicated the theoretical process of extracting energy from hydrogen in the air in the laboratory, as announced by the Swiss university on Monday. The results, which have just been published in the journal “PNAS,” provide proof that the process takes…

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July will be among the four rainiest Julys in the 168-year record period – “it may even be the third wettest” month, according to Alexander Orlik, climatologist at Geosphere Austria, on Monday in response to a query from the APA. In addition, preliminary data show that “significantly too little sunshine” has been recorded so far. About a quarter of the normal value is missing. July 2025: 50 percent more precipitation than in an average July According to Geosphere’s forecast, rain is still expected in the last days of July, especially…

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