Biochemists discover self-repair function in key photosynthetic protein complex
Cyanobacteria began contributing oxygen to Earth's mostly noxious atmosphere more than 2 billion years ago. The photosystem ...
Meet the Microbes That Breathe Nitrate Instead of Oxygen – And They’re Everywhere
Scientists have discovered a remarkable new form of symbiosis — a bacterium that lives inside a single-celled organism (a ...
25 Facts You Learned in School That Are No Longer True
If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about the day-to-day of school ...
Is methane the key to finding life on other worlds?
How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we ...
Occidental Petroleum's Options Frenzy: What You Need to Know
Taking into account the Volume and Open Interest on these contracts, it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from $50.0 to $70.0 for Occidental Petroleum over the last 3 months.
Physicists Uncover a Hidden Quantum World Inside the Proton – And It’s Wilder Than We Thought
Protons are far from simple particles — they are swirling cauldrons of quarks, gluons, and quantum entanglement. Scientists ...