Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are way older than penicillin
Remember the classic chases where Wile E. Coyote tries to catch Roadrunner but is often outsmarted? It turns out that bacteria have to…
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Remember the classic chases where Wile E. Coyote tries to catch Roadrunner but is often outsmarted? It turns out that bacteria have to…
Scientists used genetic technology to identify the different roles of bacteria present in ancient fossil formations called stromatolites.
A carbonaceous meteorite that fell in Costa Rica holds organic compounds that are preserved from the earliest stages of our solar system,…
The hyperbranched polymer scaffold could have been the early primitive base for the emergence of life. @t_z_jia @CerberaOdollam…
Fireflies are bioluminescent, which means they glow. But were they always that way? Why do they glow? Scientists used genetics tools to find…
How hard is it for evolution to produce intelligent life like humans? We don't really know, but some computational modelers tried to answer…
Biological processes might have led to greater continental crust coverage than would be expected on a planet without life.
Astrobiologists have discovered a possible new pathway for the prebiotic self-assembly of biologically important molecules by replicating…
The brain of one of popular culture’s most infamous dinosaurs helps to clarify its diet and hearing range.
Sauropods were previously thought to have had their heyday in the Late Jurassic period. Recent fossil evidence says it was probably much…