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New research reveals the strange ways gut bacteria breathe without oxygen, influencing our health
Salon via Yahoo News· 4 months agoWoman Suffers Stomach Pains Getty Images/Grace Cary In the wellness world, there’s a lot of...
Researchers looked at 830-million-year-old halite and found microorganisms that may still be alive.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoScientists at West Virginia University may have found living microorganisms in a halite sample...
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 ...
Were viruses around on Earth before living cells emerged? A microbiologist explains
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMaybe the first life on Earth was part of an 'RNA world.' Artur Plawgo/Science Photo Library via...
How is Canada like Mars? Lost Hammer Spring shows us
SYFY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEarth and Mars are not terribly alike. Mars is incredibly cold, the air is incredibly thin, and the chemistry on the surface is incredibly different than...
Can probiotics protect corals from problems like bleaching?
Knowable Magazine via Yahoo News· 9 months agoSupermarket shelves abound with yogurt and other products chock-full of probiotics — “good bacteria”...
Evolution 'began before there was life on Earth', study suggests
Yahoo News UK· 1 year agoLife thrived on Earth because some amino acids were especially good at helping proteins adopt...
How exotic alien life could thrive in the giant molecular clouds of deep space
Space via Yahoo News· 5 months agoAn astronomer has outlined a way for methane-producing life to thrive in the molecular clouds of...
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...
Nature favours all creatures great and small over medium-sized, study suggests
Press Association News via AOL· 1 year agoLife may come in all shapes and sizes, but nature favours the biggest and smallest creatures over...