Black hole discovered off Roman Road, Hereford, UK
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A reader informs Feedback about the Black Hole Lane near their home, but adds that they have yet to reach the event horizon
A reader informs Feedback about the Black Hole Lane near their home, but adds that they have yet to reach the event horizon
Discovery and exploitation of natural competence in Patescibacteria enables visualization of the bacterial epibiont lifecycle…
"Darwin as an Embryo". COURTESY: Stable Diffusion.For this year's delayed Darwin Day post, I will present some of the latest…
Fancy a trip to the Ediacaran? Hold on tight, things are going to get strange.
Written by Charlotte Harrison, Science Writer Finding biomarkers in the urine of patients with aggressive prostate cancer…
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Authors: Predrag Slijepcevic, Senior Lecturer in Biology, Brunel University London and Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe, Honorary…
So - I did a guest appearance in a UC Davis Microbiology class run by a colleague / friend of mine - Renee Tsolis and I thought…
Our scientists often give us visual displays designed to impress us with their grasp of nature. Such visuals should often be…
I still believe in revolutions. And sometimes they just happen, almost unnoticed. One such revolution happened on a boring 11th…
by Christoph Our reader Bradley K. Sherman commented in the recent 'Tree of Life' post: "Hug has Tenericutes top-center in the…
by Christoph Which picture comes to your mind if you think of the 'Tree of Life' (ToL) ? Maybe it's Ernst Haeckel's venerab…
by Roberto and Elio Exactly forty years ago to the day (as we sit down to write this post on November 3, 2017) the front…
(Apologies for the Big Data buzzword, but it actually fits!) I find it increasingly frustrating to use a broad swath of…
Launched today, the annual Altmetric Top 100 highlights the research papers published in the last year that have generated…
For the second year in a row, my advanced microbiology course, Eukaryotic Microbiology, is up and running. Technically this is…
Sources: New York Times , Nature.com The post Scientists Unveil New ‘Tree of Life’ appeared first on The Big Picture.
The microbial world (much larger than even originally imagined, as demonstrated in the new Tree of Life) contains an extremely…
In the Origin of Species, Darwin described a “great Tree of Life” which is “fills with its dead and broken branches the crust…
如果跟踪每一种生物的时间足够长,你会发现它们拥有共同的祖先。 阅读
A new “tree of life” has prompted a re-evaluation of our place in evolution. But why are these diagrams named after the tree in…
Enlarge / All life with complex cells, including us, is part of the little green rounding error in the lower right. (credit…
SCOPERTE – L’albero della vita, che ci mostra le relazioni fondamentali di discendenza tra i diversi gruppi tassonomici di…
Isn't it, though, in a broad sense? I think our colleague Wesley Smith would agree. Sure, there are scary stories about the…
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A team of scientists…
Since we started cultivation-independent analysis of microbial DNA, there’s been an explosion in the number of phyla (or “candida…
Too many alerts to go through after taking one day off, so here is part one. An updated tree of life, acute appendicitis…
The tree of life, which depicts how life has evolved and diversified on the planet, is getting a lot more complicated. This is…
Environment Photo credit: The tree shows how the vast majority of biodiversity is found within the bacterial…
Most of the life we see around us -- plants, animals, humans and other so-called eukaryotes -- actually comprise a tiny…
Un equipo de científicos redibuja el esquema de los seres vivos tras analizar miles de genomas de nuevas especies. En el nuevo ár…
Following years of intense exploration and research into the microbial world, scientists have reimagined the tree of life—the…
An updated version of the familiar diagram reveals the astonishing scope of the hidden world.