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Tiny Bacteria in the Fog May Be Helping Clean the Air


A study of radiation fog events over Pennsylvania has found that bacteria living inside fog droplets are actively growing and feeding on toxic chemicals like formaldehyde, revealing an unexpected biological force at work in the atmosphere.

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