Molecular clock analysis shows bacteria used oxygen long before widespread photosynthesis
Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their early history and evolution is difficult because they rarely ...
Ancient Bacteria Were Breathing Long Before Oxygen Became Abundant
Scientists assumed most forms of life before the Great Oxidation Event didn't metabolize oxygen—but recent research suggests ...
Buried for Millennia, Scientists Coax 7,000-Year-Old Algae Back to Life
The revived organisms resumed their biological activities as if they hadn't been without oxygen and light for thousands of ...
Microalgae and bacteria team up to convert carbon dioxide into useful products
Scientists have spent decades genetically modifying the bacterium Escherichia coli and other microbes to convert carbon dioxide into useful biological products. Most methods require additional carbon ...
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Warning to move garden furniture to help your lawn get sun
Homeowners are being told to move their garden furniture to allow their lawn to get some sun as it could be "susceptible to fungal diseases ...
Dormant algae revived after 7,000 years beneath the Baltic Sea, researchers say
Researchers have successfully revived algae that remained dormant underneath sediment at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for ...
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From the Seafloor to Outer Space: Marine Microbiology in the Girguis Lab
Girguis, a professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, specializes in biochemistry and ecological physiology ...
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Scientists awaken organism dormant for 7000 years đŸ§¬
Researchers have revived microalgae that had been dormant for millennia in the sediments of the Baltic Sea. This ...
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Molecular Clock Provides Clues to the Evolution of Oxygen Metabolism in Bacteria
Researchers have used machine learning, genomic data, fossils and the Earth’s geochemical history to create a timeline of ...
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Thriving Antarctic Ecosystem Revealed by a Departing Iceberg
In mid-January, a team of scientists were sailing aboard a research vessel in frigid Antarctic waters. They planned to investigate an unexplored section of the Bellingshausen Sea and the creatures ...