Image source A layer of living scum only a cell thick may have covered parts of Earth more than 3 billion years ago, surviving with the help of nitrogen that these slimy microbes pulled from the atmosphere, a new study finds. This finding suggests that nitrogen may have helped some planets, such

  Image source   Opinion: CharlesS702 The entire world needs to get serious about population control. We have people, usually poor and stupid people, breeding out of control. They're having kids that they can afford. That's happening in our country, however it's also happening on a global scale.

Coles, 54, is using his own money to build a Cambridge, Mass.-based startup called Yumanity that is using yeast, the microbes that help make bread and beer, to study how misfolded proteins in the brain cause Alzheimer’s, Lou Gehrig’s disease and Parkinson’s, and to create drugs based on that

In evolutionary biology, an organism is said to behave altruistically when its behaviour benefits other organisms, at a cost to itself. The costs and benefits are measured in terms of reproductive fitness, or expected number of offspring. So by behaving altruistically, an organism reduces the

  Image source   Bigfoot or Sasquatch. In the foothills of the Himalayas, they are known as the yeti, or abominable snowman. And Russian call them almasty. But in a scientific laboratory, these elusive, hairy, humanlike creatures are nothing more than bears, horses and dogs. This is the conclusion