Nature
Anything about Nature that is fundamental in nature! Jun 2
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The Borg of the Microbes Takes Up . . . Farming?
You are witnessing one of nature's most incredible migrations that never gets shown on the Discovery Channel.
Bioprospectors from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found a microbe in a Nevada hot spring that happily eats plant material – cellulose – at temperatures near the boiling point of water. In fact, the microbe’s cellulose-digesting enzyme, called a cellulase, is most active at a record 109 degrees Celsius (228 degrees Fahrenheit), significantly above the 100℃ (212℉) boiling point of water. A 94°C geothermal pool, with a level-maintaining siphon, near Gerlach, Nevada.
Hot springs microbe yields record-breaking, heat-tolerant enzyme
Quick evolution leads to quiet crickets
Resource library : Evo in the news : Quick evolution leads to quiet crickets December 2006, updates added June 2008 and June 2011
Gliese 581d is the outlying planet in the Gliese 581 system, and orbits its parent star every 66.8 days.
First habitable exoplanet confirmed | COSMOS magazine
Beautiful Universe
Chromatin remodeling of interleukin-17 (IL-17)-IL-17F cytokine gene locus during inflammatory helper T cell differentiation. Akimzhanov, A.M., Yang, X.O., and Dong, C. (2007) J.
Developmental Cell - Aberrant Epigenetic Landscape in Cancer: How Cellular Identity Goes Awry
Quantum mechanics lays out a set of mind-bending rules on how very small things move and behave, such as their ability to absorb energy only in discrete amounts (or quanta) and be in two different states at the same time. Although, so far, quantum effects have been observed primarily in molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles, physicists have been putting much effort into observing quantum mechanics in systems closer to human scale. Such efforts are starting to pay off.