Have you ever wanted to know about what microscopic organisms live in the soil? This week on Ask a Scientist, Dr. Priyanka Kushwaha, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Arizona talks to us all about soil microbiology (microbes that live in soils)!! She answers questions about what types of microbes live in soils, how she studies microbes, and why it is bad to eat dirt! 

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