Transforming air into life
Scientists in Montana have uncovered evidence that the ancestral nitrogen-fixing enzyme, nitrogenase, evolved employing molybdenum, rather than vanadium or iron. N2 has […]
Author: K.E.D.C.
Extreme fungi: No light, no oxygen, and a lot of salt
Off the coast of Saudi Arabia, about 850 meters down, there is a lake at the bottom of the Red Sea. The […]
Keeping it together
Scientists explore how halophilic proteins survive high salt Proteins are a cell’s machinery. A cell’s surface is cluttered with protein receptors that […]
Better than a canary
A microorganism reports on environmental toxins by whether it knows which way is up or down Pollution, and the resulting toxic habitats, […]
Can we be as clever as plants?
Engineers, computer scientists, and plant biologists come together to create robot explorers inspired by plants We eat them. We breathe the oxygen […]