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“Hulk”-like microorganisms in soil can survive high levels of gamma radiation

Posted on June 19, 2019March 8, 2024 by Sciworthy

In the Marvel Universe, Bruce Banner exposed his body to high doses of gamma radiation during an experiment in his lab. The gamma radiation…

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    Are the building blocks of life at the bottom of the sea?

    Posted on May 15, 2019March 12, 2024 by Sciworthy

    Scientists recreated a deep-ocean environment where underwater volcanoes spew heat and chemicals to test whether or not biological molecules…

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      Believe it or not, we can (kind of) measure the air pressure of early Earth!

      Posted on February 13, 2019June 24, 2025 by SanjoySom

      Blue-green algae's response to different nitrogen pressures may tell us what fossils to look for and what those fossils tell us about…

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        Hunting for fossilized microbes

        Posted on January 28, 2019March 12, 2024 by Sciworthy

        We’ve all heard of hunting for fossils to learn about the Earth’s past, but what if you wanted to learn about the microbes that lived…

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          A crater on Mars may be a future landing site

          Posted on September 13, 2018December 5, 2023 by Sciworthy

          Here on Earth, scientists study layers of sediment like dirt and sand to better understand how rocks form. The same contextual clues…

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            Using Gas Bubbles in Lava to Predict Ancient Air Pressure

            Posted on May 24, 2018June 25, 2025 by Sciworthy

            What was the weather like in New York last week? You can look it up on weather.com. What was it like on March 7, 1953, in the pre-internet…

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              Can you teach an old gene new tricks?

              Posted on December 22, 2017October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

              Evolution explains how living things change over successive generations, giving rise to diversity. Across the evolutionary history of Earth,…

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                What Protects Exoplanets from Damaging Solar Flares?

                Posted on November 14, 2017October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

                Thanks to NASA’s Kepler Mission, over one-thousand potentially habitable exoplanets have been discovered to-date, orbiting around their…

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                  The Genetic Origins of the Water Bear, Earth’s Most Resilient Organism

                  Posted on August 17, 2017October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

                  No living organism can survive in the dead of space, right? The unlikely exception: water bears. Also known by their scientific name,…

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                    What Makes a Universe Habitable?

                    Posted on June 7, 2017October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

                    If there are multiple universes, which of them are capable of harboring life and why? A physicist comes up with a number, and that number is…

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