Biology
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Scientists Discover Living Fossils That Thrive in Cleanrooms, Challenging Assumptions About Sterility
Read more: Scientists Discover Living Fossils That Thrive in Cleanrooms, Challenging Assumptions About SterilityScientists have found 26 new bacterial species thriving in NASA cleanrooms long thought sterile, challenging assumptions about microbial survival and planetary protection.
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Connectome Pioneer Sebastian Seung Is Building a Digital Brain
Read more: Connectome Pioneer Sebastian Seung Is Building a Digital BrainSebastian Seung, a leading connectomics researcher, has launched Memazing to build software emulations of brains using real neural wiring diagrams, starting with the fruit fly brain.
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The Missing Link of Life: RNA and Amino Acids Linked Spontaneously
Read more: The Missing Link of Life: RNA and Amino Acids Linked SpontaneouslyA team led by Professor Matthew Powner showed how two of biology’s most fundamental ingredients, RNA and amino acids, could have spontaneously joined together at life’s beginning.
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Researchers Observe Superfluidity in a Molecule for the First Time
Read more: Researchers Observe Superfluidity in a Molecule for the First TimeThe discovery of the first “superfluid molecule” proves that frictionless flow can exist at the molecular scale, challenging our understanding of quantum states.
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Connectome Pioneer Sebastian Seung Is Building a Digital Brain
Read more: Connectome Pioneer Sebastian Seung Is Building a Digital BrainSebastian Seung, a leading connectomics researcher, has launched Memazing to build software emulations of brains using real neural wiring diagrams, starting with the fruit fly brain.
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Gut Bacteria Molecules Found to Control Liver Energy Use, Linked to Obesity and Diabetes
Read more: Gut Bacteria Molecules Found to Control Liver Energy Use, Linked to Obesity and DiabetesMolecules produced by the gut microbiome have been identified as key regulators of liver energy use, linking diet and bacteria to diabetes and obesity risk.
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Scientists Create Synthetic Cells That Use Light to Produce Energy
Read more: Scientists Create Synthetic Cells That Use Light to Produce EnergyLab-made protocells absorb light and produce chemical energy, resembling primitive photosynthesis.
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Why Biology Might Be the Future of Computing: Semisynbio Revolution
Read more: Why Biology Might Be the Future of Computing: Semisynbio RevolutionScientists propose bio-AI hybrids, blending living systems and computing substrates to create a new paradigm.
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New Biosensor Brings Quantum Sensitivity Inside Living Cells
Read more: New Biosensor Brings Quantum Sensitivity Inside Living CellsScientists developed a quantum biosensor stable enough to work inside living cells, paving the way for sensitive biological measurements.
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Physicist Reexamines Schrödinger’s “What Is Life?” in Light of Quantum Biology
Read more: Physicist Reexamines Schrödinger’s “What Is Life?” in Light of Quantum BiologyA theory suggests cells may use quantum superradiance in microtubules to process information.