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Searching for a female partner for the world’s “loneliest” plant
Ars Technica· 2 hours ago“Surely this is the most solitary organism in the world,” wrote paleontologist Richard Fortey in his...
The Sea Cucumber: Nature’s Answer to Modern Medical Challenges
SciTechDaily· 20 hours agoScientists utilize a handful of standard research organisms, including fruit flies and mice, to...
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....
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...
Bioremediation 101: Everything You Need to Know - EcoWatch
EcoWatch· 17 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 ...
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 < ...
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...
Deep-learning-enabled antibiotic discovery through molecular de-extinction - Nature Biomedical...
Nature· 5 days agoDeep learning can be used to mine the proteomes of all available extinct organisms for the discovery of compounds with antibiotic properties.
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 ...
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...