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The Sea Cucumber: Nature’s Answer to Modern Medical Challenges
SciTechDaily· 16 hours agoScientists utilize a handful of standard research organisms, including fruit flies and mice, to...
Bioremediation 101: Everything You Need to Know - EcoWatch
EcoWatch· 13 hours agoBioremediation is a process that uses plants and microorganisms like bacteria, fungi and algae to treat contaminated soils, water and other pollution. Microorganisms are very small ...
Earth Has a Third Form of Life—and It Could Change How We Generate Power
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 2 days agoSince the discovery of archaea in the late 1970s, scientists have believed that one difference...
Bizarre Loch Ness Microbe Hunts with a Hyperextensible Origami Neck
Scientific American· 2 days agoThe single-celled organism Lacrymaria olor uses one of the most curious hunting techniques of all....
Age is just a number: Immune cell 'epigenetic clock' ticks independently of organism lifespan
Medical Xpress· 4 days agoScientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of Minnesota investigated the unique 'epigenetic clock' of T cell aging, demonstrating that T cells can outlive an < ...
Dozens of hikers sickened while visiting waterfalls near Grand Canyon
FOX 25 Boston· 14 hours agoDozens of tourists visiting a popular destination near the Grand Canyon this summer have reported an...
NASA Astronauts Checking Exterior of Space Station for Living Organisms
Futurism via Yahoo News· 4 days agoSpace Swab NASA astronauts Tracy Dyson and Matt Dominick are scheduled to venture outside of the...
Lessons on predictive learning from the honeybee - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Nature· 5 days agoLearning and memory are crucial for an organism’s survival. Identifying the neural underpinnings of these mechanisms has been a major endeavour in neuroscience over recent ...
Antibiotics created from extinct species could fight infections
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 21 hours ago“We found antimicrobial compounds in Neanderthals and that gave us the confidence to challenge...
AI’s Advent Doesn’t Spell Labor Doom and Gloom
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 3 days agoA small fern, Tmesipteris oblanceolata, from the island of New Caledonia was found to have the largest genome of any organism in the world. Apparently it...