They’ve survived for billions of years in boiling acid, deep-sea vents and salt flats. Now, some of Earth’s oldest life forms — microbes called Archaea — are offering a new […]
When a mudflat crumbles on Earth, or an ice sheet splinters on one of Jupiter’s moons (Europa), or an ancient lakebed breaks on Mars, do these fractures follow a hidden […]
![Coupled bilayer nanopore concept for physical guiding, tracking and sizing of single molecules a, Fabrication schematic including EBL, etching, 2D materials transfer and AC-STEM sculpting. SiN nanopores constitute a GURU platform. Pore thicknesses are tSiN and t2D, diameters are dSiN and d2D and the total thickness is tGURU. Device configurations are denoted as [N, M] for N SiN pores and M 2D pores. σSiN and σ2D denote surface charge densities of SiN and 2D pores, respectively. The interlayer separation, L, can be experimentally controlled by the duration of RIE. -- Nature](https://i0.wp.com/astrobiology.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Tricorder-Tech-Novel-Coupled-Nanopore.png?resize=1200%2C719&ssl=1)
Editor’s note: As we begin to expand our search for life to other worlds we are going to need to be economical interms of the equipment we send and how […]
Originally discovered in extreme environments like hydrothermal vents, archaea, a single-celled microorganism, can also be found in the digestive systems of animals, including humans where they play a key role […]
Bioinformatics and big data analyses can reap great rewards for biologists, but it takes a lot of work to generate the datasets necessary to begin. At the same time, researchers […]
Evolution does not operate with a goal in mind; it does not have foresight. But organisms that have a greater capacity to evolve may fare better in rapidly changing environments. […]
