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Some Deep Sea Microbes Are Hungry For Rocket Fuel
Wageningen :: Netherlands | 1 month ago
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Researchers in the Netherlands have found that a microbe from deep beneath the ocean can breathe a major ingredient in rocket fuel. The discovery suggests that early life may have used many different kinds of chemicals besides oxygen to survive and
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How to Thrive in Battery Acid and Among Toxic Metals
Reykjavík :: Iceland | 2 months ago
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March 11, 2013 Rock in an Icelandic hot spring near Reykjavik with sulfur and Galdieria sulphuraria. (Christine Oesterhelt) In the movie Alien , the title character is an extraterrestrial creature that can survive brutal heat and resist the effects
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Strategies for survival on Mars revealed
Noida :: India | 2 months ago
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A study led by an Indian-origin researcher from the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found key features in proteins needed for life to function on Mars and other extreme environments...They found subtle but significant differences
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'Zombie microbes' may hold clues to origin of life
Sydney :: Australia | 3 months ago
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The single-celled microbes found deep underground include bacteria, which need water and nutrients to grow but not necessarily oxygen, and archaea, which can live off compounds such as ammonia or sulphur...The book, "Carbon in Earth", said some
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Revolutionary U of I biologist Carl R. Woese dies
Urbana :: IL :: USA | 5 months ago
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GUY Business Reporter sguy@suntimes.com December 31, 2012 4:50PM Updated: December 31, 2012 5:25PM Renowned University of Illinois professor Carl R. Woese, who revolutionized biology with the discovery of a third domain of life, died Sunday at his
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How life originated from deep-sea rocks
Düsseldorf :: Germany | 5 months ago
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In a new study, researchers have address the question of where all the energy, which drove metabolism and replication in the first protocells, came from and why all life as we know it conserves energy in the peculiar form of ion gradients across
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`Permian mass extinction triggered by humble microbe`
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 5 months ago
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A humble microbe, instead of a devastating meteorite or a catastrophic volcanic eruption, wiped off over 90 percent of the species on Earth 251-million-years ago, scientists believe. According to prevailing theory, the mass extinction at the end of
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Is every living thing on Earth related?
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 6 months ago
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Somewhere deep in the past, the two of us share a common ancestor...Are you and I, as paleontology expert Brian Switek puts it , distant (distant, distant, distant) cousins of the great, tyrant lizard?...In fact, the concept that all life on Earth is
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Tungsten | video | @GrrlScientist
Stockholm :: Sweden | 6 months ago
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Tungsten video What do fishing lures, light bulbs and Oliver Sacks have in common? This week's element is tungsten, which has the chemical symbol W and the atomic number 74 . The name is derived from Swedish and translates as "heavy stone", in
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Mars-like places on earth shed light on conditions for life
Rio Tinto :: Portugal | 8 months ago
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25 Washington: Researchers from the Centro de Astrobiologia (CAB) in Madrid have made a series of field trips to the most Mars-like places on Earth to better understand the Martian surface and conditions for life. In even the most inhospitable places
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