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Powered by radios in trees, homegrown network serves 50 houses on Orcas Island When you live somewhere with slow and unreliable Internet access, it usually seems like there’s nothing to do but complain. And that’s exactly what residents of Orcas Island, one of the San Juan Islands in Washington state, were doing in late 2013.… Read More »
Of the identifiable viruses, the most common skin cell-invading variety was the human papilloma virus, which can cause warts and is linked to some cancers. But the vast majority of identifiable viruses were phages—viruses that infect only bacteria.Some phages can kill off specific types of bacteria, thus altering whole bacterial communities that inhabit the skin.… Read More »