"Could have significant implications." Researcher creates new organisms that could be put to work on future space colonies: 'Engineering them to have new abilities' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Let's say you've picked the perfect spot for building a settlement on Mars. But this opens up some pretty nasty questions. Building…what? And building….with what? There are no trees to chop down to ...

A famed scientist claimed to have unlocked eternal life. Decades later, the real story behind his “immortal” cells came to light.

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For the past three months the chatter of the Arctic Tern colony has served as the soundtrack of the summer breeding season.

Today, biological organisms are able to make use of phosphates through proteins – molecular machines that regulate all aspects of life. By binding to proteins, phosphates regulate metabolism and ...

A collection of short dispatches from the field of climate microbiology conveys the contributions that single-celled life ...

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Daphnia pulex (a.k.a. the water flea) is a microscopic crustacean whose unique reproduction habits make it the perfect species for studying evolution and natural selection. A new study looks at how ...

Scientists have identified tubulin structures in primitive Asgard archea that may have been the precursor of our own cellular ...

Cities don’t just sprawl—they metabolize. A new study shows that population, infrastructure, and emissions grow in lock-step, ...