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Prokaryotic vs. Eukaryotic Cells: What's the Difference?
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 6 months agoProkaryotic cells are like single-room efficiency apartments while eukaryotic cells are like...
Primordial steroids solve long-standing mystery about how the 1st complex life-forms evolved
Live Science via Yahoo News· 11 months agoHere we see a virtual 3D image of little pink blobs and a white blob with lots of strands coming off...
Scientists create baker’s yeast with more than 50% synthetic DNA
PA Media: Science via Yahoo News· 6 months agoScientists are a step closer to creating complex “artificial” life after replacing more than 50% of...
The Real Difference Between Plant and Animal Cells
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 6 months agoFrom the outside, plants seem pretty different from animals. For instance, plants can't walk around and catch food like we do, they give off oxygen...
Scientists race to digitize DNA of every known species on the planet
CBS News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoScientists around the world are racing to record the genetic blueprints of every known species on...
Where the heck did all those structures inside complex cells come from?
Knowable Magazine via Yahoo News· 6 months agoScientists agree that eons ago, a bacterium took up residence inside another cell and became its...
UT researchers discover first viruses in ancient bacteria, a possible key to life's origins
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 2 years agoUniversity of Texas researchers have made the first discovery of viruses infecting ancient archaea microbes that may further scientists’ current understanding of the origins of life. Asgard ...
The largest bacterium discovered is visible to the naked eye
Engadget· 2 years agoWhen you hear the word "bacteria," you probably picture organisms that couldn't be seen unless...
Is nothing sacred? Now it turns out moths aren't always drawn to a flame
The Herald-Mail via Yahoo News· 1 week agoI was thumbing through the most recent issue of the Journal of Insect Conservation (what, you don’t subscribe?) and I came across an interesting article that notes the declining number of moths ...