Evolution in a test tube: These bacteria survive on deadly copper surfaces The descendants of regular wild-type bacteria can evolve to survive for a long time on metallic copper surfaces that would usually kill them […]
This beetle can survive getting run over by a car. Engineers are figuring out how. Getting run over by a car is not a near-death experience for the diabolical ironclad beetle. How the beetle survives […]
Can life survive a star’s death? Webb telescope can reveal the answer When stars like our sun die, all that remains is an exposed core—a white dwarf. A planet orbiting a white dwarf presents a […]
Bacteria could survive travel between Earth and Mars when forming aggregates Imagine microscopic life-forms, such as bacteria, transported through space, and landing on another planet. The bacteria finding suitable conditions for its survival could then […]
Life might survive, and thrive, in a hydrogen world: study As new and more powerful telescopes blink on in the next few years, astronomers will be able to aim the megascopes at nearby exoplanets, peering […]
Hot pots helped ancient Siberian hunters survive the Ice Age A new study shows that ancient Siberian hunters created heat resistant pots so that they could cook hot meals – surviving the harshest seasons of […]