Single-celled organisms, such as bacteria and archaea, have developed many ways to communicate with each other. For example, they might use tiny so-called extracellular vesicles (EVs) – membrane-enveloped packages smaller […]
hypersaline
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Microbial Wonders In Earth’s Saltiest Waters
The study delves into hypersaline lakes in Xinjiang, China, exploring the genetic and metabolic diversity of microbial communities termed “microbial dark matters”.
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Orbital Recon: Seeking Life Signs From Orbit
Editor’s note: We observe new worlds from afar first with telescopes, then spacecraft flybys, then robotic orbital missions, followed perhaps by human missions. How we eventually study the surface of […]
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Away Team Tech: Spain’s Hypersaline Tirez Lagoon Proposed As A Mars ‘Astrobiological Time-Analog’
The ongoing search for signs of life on Mars relies in part on terrestrial analogs – places on Earth closely resembling the past or current geology and climate of the […]