“Subsurface Microbial Colonization at Mineral-Filled Veins in 2-Billion-Year-Old Mafic Rock from the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa,” focuses on the examination of microbial life in ancient igneous rocks from the Bushveld Igneous Complex in South Africa. The study investigates the possibility of long-term microbial survival in stable subsurface environments over »
A new book from Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka addresses this very issue. In a complex and challenging book, the authors discuss the origins of consciousness from an evolutionary perspective. They postulate that capability to learn was the driving force in the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness and it occurred »
A riveting video from David Kipping at Astronomy Columbia. Is there life out there? We simply have no idea as it’s not possible to extrapolate from a single data point – Earth. It could well be that the creation of life is very difficult and we are the only example »
A recent paper in Science authored Ilya Bobrovskiy, Janet Hope and colleagues from ANU, the Russian Academy and European institutions has remarkably (and convincingly) discovered molecules of fat in Dickinsonia, a marine genus of the Ediacaran biota. This has confirmed that the 558 million year old Dickinsonia is the earliest animal in the geological record and maybe »
200 AMU macromolecular organics detected in plumes on Enceladus Cassini was intentionally crashed into the atmosphere of Saturn late in 2016, to avoid contamination of any of the moons of the planet. While that ended data collection from Saturn and its moons, data analysis continues to produce surprises. Saturn’s moon »
Shenshen Lai and colleagues from the University of British Columbia report results from a study of protein kinases in eukaryotes (A eukaryote is any organism whose cells contain a nucleus and other organelles enclosed within membranes. Protein kinases play a pivotal role in communicating intracellular signals in eukaryotes. The family of eukaryotic »
