1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (256+ words) astrobiology. com Development and Demonstration of a Modular Astrobiological Experiments (MAEx) Payload for Autonomous Biological Monitoring in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) The spaceflight environment presents unique physicochemical conditions, including microgravity, ionizing radiation, altered fluid transport, and confined engineered habitats, which…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (226+ words) astrobiology. com Synthetic Biology As An Empirical Tool For Evolutionary Theory Evolutionary biology has traditionally inferred process from patterns in extant organisms and the fossil record, leaving many foundational questions constrained by their historical nature. Over the past two decades,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (244+ words) Biologist, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Biologist and Payload integrator, Editor of NASAWatch. com and Astrobiology. com, Lapsed climber, Explorer, Synaesthete, Former Challenger Center board member " Artificial Intelligence Aided Design Of Peptides With Custom Secondary Structure Motifs And Reduced Amino…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (119+ words) Time: May 12th, 9 a. m. PDT/12 p. m. EDTjoin Dr. N'ria Ros-Rocher is a CNRS research associate at Institut Pasteur. She conducts multidisciplinary research on the origin of multicellularity that elucidates how environmental factors regulate multicellular behaviors in close animal relatives. She also develops genetic…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (402+ words) When an asteroid as big as'Mount Everest struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs and roughly a third of life on the planet. But many plants survived the devastation. In a new study publishing May 8 in…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (319+ words) Can we learn about life in the deep ocean even if we don't see it? Yes we can. Thanks to environmental DNA (e DNA), we no longer need a visual sighting to know what's been in the neighborhood. Beyond the…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (854+ words) Expose an animal to extreme physical stress, and the expectation is simple: It will break down. But when UC Riverside scientists subjected fruit flies to forces many times stronger than Earth's gravity " a condition called hypergravity " the insects did something…...

1+ mon, 14+ hour ago  (169+ words) astrobiology. com TMC-1: Probing The Onset Of Chemical Complexity In Space In recent years, the obsessive interest in the observation of TMC-1 has brought a boost in our knowledge of the chemistry of cold dark clouds. The number of molecules…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (505+ words) Routine maintenance leads to unexpected microbial discovery in "ship goo" on the R/V Blue Heron's rudder shaft. The research vessel, which had been pulled out of Lake Erie into the Great Lakes Shipyard, Cleveland, to fix a noisy propeller…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (182+ words) Aspergillus calidoustus demonstrated remarkable survival under simulated Martian conditions, withstanding up to 1, 440 min of Martian solar irradiation, Mars atmospheric pressure and composition, and the presence of Martian regolith. This is the first study to perform an end-to-end evaluation of eukaryotic…...