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Sydney-based New Zealander Dr Matt Baker returns for a chat about some of the latest science news.
This week: the world’s largest known bacteria have been discovered in the tropical mangroves of Guadeloupe — the Thiomargarita magnifica are large enough to see without a microscope, at around a centimetre long each. And scientists have designed a tiny robot fish that is programmed to remove microplastics from the ocean by swimming around and absorbing them.
Dr Baker is the Scientia Research Fellow in the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at the University of New South Wales.
Thiomargarita magnifica, which was discovered on decaying mangrove leaves in shallow tropical marine marshes. Photo: Tomas Tyml
