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Life may have learned to use oxygen long before it filled Earth’s air
7+ mon, 2+ day ago (1001+ words) and most animals depend on it. But for most of Earth’s history, oxygen wasn’t a stable part of the atmosphere...much later. A lot of researchers have argued that Earth’s rocks acted like a giant sponge. Oxygen is…...
Antarctica is home to microbes found nowhere else on Earth
1+ week, 4+ day ago (759+ words) Antarctic soils harbor microbes found nowhere else on Earth, revealing a hidden world of life uniquely adapted...rigorously before. The work was led by researchers from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental...it works, a microbe found in exactly…...
Scientists warn of a new biological risk and call for an international summit
8+ mon, 2+ day ago (838+ words) Thirty-eight researchers from around the world are urging caution over mirror life – a hypothetical form of biology built from mirror-image molecules that could behave unpredictably...2025, a public symposium on mirror life streamed from Paris. Organized with the Mirror Biology Dialogues......
Deep-sea voyage uncovers a glowing shark and a ghostly porcelain crab
10+ mon, 4+ week ago (727+ words) Ecology and Evolution, weren’t random luck. They came from years of planning, patient surveying, and sharp...are small, both extraordinary, and both prove that Earth’s mysteries often live far below the surface. Dr. Will White, an ichthyologist from the…...
Biodiversity Cell Atlas project is creating a map of every living thing, cell by cell
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (834+ words) Imagine trying to understand all of life on Earth by looking not just at whole organisms, but by...type of cell across all of eukaryotic life. Life on Earth is dazzling in its variety, yet it’s all made from the…...
Scientists 'reanimate' a worm that was frozen in Siberian permafrost for over 46,000 years
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (755+ words) kolymaensis”. In recognition of the Kolyma River region from which it originated, the nematode was given the...
Hippos in the Ice Age? DNA reveals a survival story
11+ mon, 23+ hour ago (746+ words) endured it. Scientists once believed hippos vanished from Europe about 115,000 years ago, when the last warm period ended. But researchers from the University of Potsdam, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen...after such a long time,” said Dr. Ronny Friedrich from the Curt-Engelhorn-Zentrum Archäometrie. His…...
Scientists recover the world's oldest RNA in a well-preserved woolly mammoth
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (755+ words) story even farther. Researchers have obtained RNA from mammoth tissue that spent nearly 40,000 years in...biology. Such information has never been recovered from an animal this old. It opens a door that many thought...end of its life. The researchers…...
Canadian man becomes first human cured with prime gene editing
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (836+ words) Ty Sperle, a 19-year-old from Kelowna, British Columbia, has become the first person cured...cells with repaired ones, the question now shifts from whether the fix worked to how broadly it can be...– an inherited disorder that keeps immune cells…...
Cells surprise scientists with lighter-than-expected nuclei
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (795+ words) dense than the surrounding cytoplasm in species from yeast to humans. Abin Biswas from the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (MPIIB),...Biswas. Chromatin adds a smaller, direct pressure from being confined, which also pushes the envelope outward....