Hacker News with Generative AI: Urban Environments

The evolutionary mystery of the German cockroach (johnhawks.net)
The species evolved to exploit human-built environments and exists nowhere else. So where did it come from?
Evolution, Biology, Insects, Urban Environments
96 points by softwaredoug 20 days ago | 18 comments
City microbes surviving on disinfectants, research reveals (phys.org)
New research shows microbes in our cities are evolving to resist the very cleaners we use to eliminate them. It also identifies novel strains living in Hong Kong that were previously only found in Antarctic desert soil.
Microbiology, Urban Environments, Environmental Science, Evolution, Antibiotic Resistance
9 points by pseudolus 37 days ago | 0 comments