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Tom Arnold: A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Dec. 26

Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle, and the previous day’s answer (in invisitext) posted here.

SPOILER WARNING:
We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer. As such, if you want to figure it out all by yourself, DON’T READ THE COMMENTS!

Also, with the knowledge that because others may publish their answers before you do, if you want to...

Searching the Sea for Scum-Busting Cholera Killers

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Bacteria-scanning robots have helped researchers discover scum-busting chemicals that could potentially cut rates of cholera infection.

The robots are part of an award-winning system developed at the University of California, Santa Cruz that fuses fast-paced automatic screening techniques and neon bacteria with undersea hunts for new disease-fighting bugs.

“The cool thing is we can find entirely new bacteria with novel compounds that no one has ever seen before,” said microbiology graduate student Nicholas Shikuma.

Biofilms are sturdy sheets of bacterial scum that shelter...

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