4 billion year-old fossils found in Canadian quartz

Scientists have found new evidence of life's origins on Earth, in Canada no less. The newest record of our primordial past are fossils of bacteria that Phys.org says lived on iron and were encased in layers of quartz. The current estimate is that the...

DARPA Engineering Microbes to Terraform Mars


DARPA is putting in all its efforts towards advancing its genetics department along with the talent pool of synthetic biological know-how it possesses. One of the most cutting edge fields related to...

Surfers Help Science in Fight against Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria with their Poop


Why surfers can help research into how water pollutions is affecting antibiotic resistant bacteria? They are exposed more than other water athletes to sea water. For research into one of the possibly...

Scientists find 40 Million Genes in Plankton


We know that plankton feeds wales and other fish, but what exactly is plankton? The microscopic beings drift on the upper layer of the oceans are globally referred to as "plankton". These tiny...