Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in.

Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years.

Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program.

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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science.

I'm Steve Merski.

So you buy something made of plastic and it's labeled biodegradable.

You can rest easy knowing that after you throw it out, it will harmlessly break down.

Well, not so fast.

When we look at biodegradability as it pertains to landfills,

biodegradability is not a desirable attribute for material.

And the reason for this is that when we design for biodegradability,

we're typically designing for rapid biodegradability.

And yet, landfills do not begin to collect the gas that's produced typically for two years.

So much of the gas, the methane from biodegradability is released to the environment

before gas collection systems are installed.

Morton Barlaz.

He heads the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State

University.

And he spoke June 6th on Capitol Hill at the Third Science Meets Congress event, co-hosted

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