biology

Life on Mars could be Hidden Underground

Posted in Science on 4th May, 2021
by Alex Muller

With technologies like transient electromagnetic sounding, Tarnas says, researchers can get an idea of where and how much water is hiding beneath the surface.

As the planet warms, tropical plants and animals are moving northward

Posted in Science on 1st Apr, 2021
by Alex Muller

New research looks at the northward trek of a variety of tropical species in North America.

Could Life Be Hiding in Our Galaxy’s Ocean Worlds?

Posted in Science on 1st Apr, 2021
by Alex Muller

Scientists hope to send landers to these moons too and more directly sample the oceans below. And although detecting exomoons is still a challenge, more sensitive instruments and creative new methods may, in the future, yield insight into how frequently they occur and what they're made of.

Lightning Strikes May Have Provided Missing Ingredient for Earth's First Organisms

Posted in Science on 31st Mar, 2021
by Alex Muller

On early Earth, there would have ranged from 100 million to 1 billion lightning strikes a year

Adapting Immunotherapy solutions to fight fungal infections

Posted in Medicine on 6th Mar, 2021
by Alex Muller

Progress in cancer immunotherapy is showing a lot of promise in other areas of medicine.