Mar 24, 2016 07:41 PM
Researchers have previously documented the ability of bacteria to survive on the outside of spacecraft, but the latest project focused on bacterial growth inside.
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2016/03/...458830699/
EXCERPT: Researchers have previously documented the ability of bacteria to survive on the outside of spacecraft, but the latest project focused on bacterial growth inside....
ALSO: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-bacteria-space-earth.html
Proof of human evolution you can see on your own body
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/proof-human-evo...dy-1551275
EXCERPT: How human bodies have evolved through natural selection can still be seen today. A video from Vox has highlighted a number of areas on the body that are remnants of our past – "parts that aren't there because you need them, but because our animal ancestors did"....
Ancient virus found hibernating in the human genome—and it might wake up
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/a...t-wake-up/
EXCERPT: In the current era of microbiome research, we humans are already having to come to grips with the fact that ‘I’ is actually ‘we’. Instead of our bodies constituting a single life-form, we are each composed of complex and diverse ecosystems of microbes that have a profound influence on our existence. [...] And the genetic blueprints that govern our biology are partly carried in those microbial inhabitants, as well as in our own cells. In a new study this week, researchers analyzed the genomes of more than 2,500 people and found 19 never-before-noticed segments of viral genetic code. Some of that viral DNA may have been traveling down human lineages for at least 670,000 years, the researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2016/03/...458830699/
EXCERPT: Researchers have previously documented the ability of bacteria to survive on the outside of spacecraft, but the latest project focused on bacterial growth inside....
ALSO: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-bacteria-space-earth.html
Proof of human evolution you can see on your own body
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/proof-human-evo...dy-1551275
EXCERPT: How human bodies have evolved through natural selection can still be seen today. A video from Vox has highlighted a number of areas on the body that are remnants of our past – "parts that aren't there because you need them, but because our animal ancestors did"....
Ancient virus found hibernating in the human genome—and it might wake up
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/a...t-wake-up/
EXCERPT: In the current era of microbiome research, we humans are already having to come to grips with the fact that ‘I’ is actually ‘we’. Instead of our bodies constituting a single life-form, we are each composed of complex and diverse ecosystems of microbes that have a profound influence on our existence. [...] And the genetic blueprints that govern our biology are partly carried in those microbial inhabitants, as well as in our own cells. In a new study this week, researchers analyzed the genomes of more than 2,500 people and found 19 never-before-noticed segments of viral genetic code. Some of that viral DNA may have been traveling down human lineages for at least 670,000 years, the researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....