Can You Teach an Old Gene New Tricks? Scientists put an ancient gene into modern bacteria, like pressing rewind and play on evolution. December 22, 2017 by Sciworthy Staff Read More
What Protects Exoplanets from Damaging Solar Flares? Simulating different models to understand which factors affect an exoplanet’s ability to sustain life during high-energy stellar events. November 14, 2017 by Sciworthy Staff Read More
Life May Be Even Older Than We Thought! Careful analyses of the composition of ancient rocks betrays the presence of life November 2, 2017 by Sanjoy Som Read More
Chasing Alien Worlds with a Flying Telescope SOFIA is the name of a telescope that flies in the stratosphere to collect data that is unimpeded by the Earth's atmosphere September 27, 2017 by Daniel Angerhausen Read More
Writing the Alphabet of Life Computer Models Show that The Basic Units of Life Were Not Randomly Selected September 20, 2017 by Sciworthy Staff Read More
The Genetic Origins of the Water Bear, Earth’s Most Resilient Organism What are the genetic mechanisms that allow tardigrades to survive such extreme conditions? August 17, 2017 by Mohit Nalavadi Read More
An Overlooked Opportunity to Breathe Without Oxygen How some bacteria may use soluble manganese to breathe July 24, 2017 by Nadia Szeinbaum Read More
What Makes a Universe Habitable? A physics professor investigates what physical parameters cause a universe to be capable of harbouring life June 7, 2017 by Sciworthy Staff Read More
Was it Inevitable that Humans Developed Math? A dive into the philosophical deep: Is it natural for living things to question the universe? June 1, 2017 by Sciworthy Staff Read More
What Could Have Created the Ancient Martian Rivers? Researchers created a new model for climate cycling on early Mars, aiming to explain the soil patterns that have been observed on the planet. May 29, 2017 by Sciworthy Staff Read More
