Coupled with 3D printing, biomining the Moon or Mars with microbes could sustain human colonies without constant re-supply from Earth.
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Desperate times call for desperate measures.
What the breakthrough methods of laboratory research can teach the business world about brainstorming.
These nematodes complicate how we understand evolutionary lineages.
The road to intelligent life is a series of hard steps.
Plants at room temperature show properties we had only seen near absolute zero.
Carnivores, herbivores, omnivores — and now virivores.
Scientists agree that eons ago, a bacterium took up residence inside another cell and became its powerhouse, the mitochondrion. But there are competing theories about the birth of other organelles such as the nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum.
The following is an excerpt from Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity by Arup K. Chakraborty and Andrey S. Shaw. Reprinted with Permission from The MIT PRESS. Copyright 2021. Koch’s Postulates, Anthrax, […]
Some fascinating observations of K2-18b have come along with horrendous, speculative communications. There’s no evidence for oceans or life.
Want to write a time-travel story? Do so at your own risk.
For the first time, it was discovered that nonphotosynthetic bacteria have a circadian clock.
Epigenetic entropy shows that you can’t fully understand cancer without mathematics.
When we feel sick, it’s not just the pathogen to blame. Our brain cranks up the temperature, and the neurons responsible finally have been found.
Since our arrival, humans have driven a seven-fold drop in the mass of wild land mammals.
The discovery could help astronauts find better ways to grow food in space.
The volcano’s historic eruption preserved an ancient library, but rendered its content illegible. A public competition aims to change that.
Certain cancers are striking earlier than they used to.
Boys are four times as likely as girls to develop autism. Girls are nearly twice as likely to experience depression. The immune system may be a player in these and other brain-health disparities.
Quantum physics is starting to show up in unexpected places. Indeed, it is at work in animals, plants, and our own bodies.
More than 90% of human faces are home to mites that live in our skin pores. These friendly guests might be merging with us.
We can’t edit tweets, but we can edit our own DNA.
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Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that?
A volley of new insights reignites the debate over whether our choices are ever truly our own.
Even the dictionary doesn’t get the definition right.
We have become the greatest threat to ourselves and to life on this planet. We need a set of agreed-upon safeguards to preserve our future.
Forensic researchers call such places “limited access environments.”
There were many other species of human on the planet. Svante Pääbo discovered one of them.
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