microbes
Passing chunks of ice can fertilize ocean waters and play a role in the planet’s carbon cycle.
A new drug inhibits a human enzyme that coronaviruses hijack in order to replicate.
We are still new at this.
Dead whales inspire a way to find extraterrestrial life on Mars.
Toxoplasmosis, which results from a chance encounter with a cougar and the parasite it carries, can push a wolf to seek alpha status.
ChatGPT’s capabilities are astonishing.
Mycobacterium leprae, the bacteria that cause leprosy, have the surprising ability to grow and reverse aging in armadillo livers.
It weakens the bacteria so that the immune system can destroy it.
From astrobiology to geology, a Moon base could serve as a laboratory unlike anything on Earth.
Three years after the pandemic began, we still don’t know the origin of COVID. A strange lack of curiosity has stifled the debate.
Bathybius haeckelii was briefly thought to be the link between inorganic matter and organic life.
About 8% of our genome is made of leftover viruses from our ancestors’ infections.
Antibodies can start forming in intestines over 10 years before symptoms arise.
Organic molecules can be produced by living or non-living systems. But the recent findings are very intriguing.
Many suspicious deaths of both humans and pets have been solved with the help of insects.
Biotechnology can convert enemy viruses into anti-cancer mercenaries.
Forensic researchers call such places “limited access environments.”
Since our arrival, humans have driven a seven-fold drop in the mass of wild land mammals.
Just as human beings diversified so that people in Asia look different from people in Europe, so too did their microbiomes.
The spray uses snippets of DNA to gum up virus replication.
HIV mutates rapidly, which has made the development of a vaccine an enormous challenge for decades. Finally, we might have one.
The antibodies elicited by the “S2 vaccine” not only neutralize COVID’s multiple strains but also coronaviruses that cause the common cold.
It’s simple to make, easy to use, and should work against any variant.
A food safety researcher explains another way to know what’s too old to eat.