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Scientist and medical technology entrepreneur J. Craig Venter published the first bacterial genome ever decoded in 1995. The ...

One of the great tragedies of the 21st century,” Nan Schaffer once said, “will be humanity’s homogeneity.” The remark was ...

Researchers at the University of Ottawa and the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered a new role for reproductive hormone secretoneurin (SN) and, for the first ...

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Consider the consequence, or seeming lack thereof, of 300 words. Theoretically speaking, it’s not too much. A casual conversation as you stand in a coworker’s doorway, perhaps, asking about the trip ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Discovered just over 60 years ago, extremophiles are bacteria, archaea, and eukarya that can survive in extremely salty, hot, cold, acidic, or ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The bacterium discovered in Yellowstone is what’s known as a thermophile, meaning that it can withstand immensely hot temperatures. But other types ...