Tom Ireland
Tom Ireland is an award-winning science journalist and editor of The Biologist magazine. He regularly contributes to BBC Science Focus and has written for The Guardian, New Scientist, and BBC News.
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Researchers estimate there may be as many as ten million trillion trillion phages on Earth — that’s 10 with 30 zeros after it.