🐄 Researchers have identified a newly discovered structure in gut microbes of dairy cows, dubbed the "hydrogenobody." This structure plays a key role in methane production, a potent greenhouse gas.

🔬 The hydrogenobody in "rumen ciliates" removes oxygen and produces hydrogen, which other microbes then use to create methane. This provides a significant breakthrough in understanding how cows emit methane.

📊 The study, published on Thursday in Science, combined genetic analysis, detailed microbe imaging, and real-life methane measurements from dairy cows to confirm the hydrogenobody's function.

💡 This discovery offers a clearer mechanism that could lead to future strategies for reducing methane emissions from cattle, a major agricultural source of greenhouse gases.

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