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 “It is possible to travel back in time” is a bold way to begin a scientific paper by any standard. This promising first sentence appeared in a the respectable journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, earlier this year. The words that follow reveal why: “at the molecular level by reconstructing proteins from extinct organisms.” When [...]  In the arid shrublands of the Australian outback, an orchid grows. Hundreds of small flowers are blooming within its lilac leaves. It is unlikely you have ever seen this rare and endangered orchid. In the thirty years after its discovery in 1928, the orchid was seen just six times. Even if you had the luck [...] This is the introduction of a guest post which I wrote for Hannah from the award winning blog Culturing Science. She writes great posts on ecology, evolution and science (communication) itself, so go and check out some of her writings! Just below the surface of the sea, little animals are floating through a universe where [...]  On the evening of June 5 in 1990, six fishermen prepared a meal of baked fish, boiled rice, boiled potatoes and boiled blue mussels that they had harvested themselves off the coast of Nantucket. An hour after finishing the meal, their mouths started to tingle. Their face, arms, legs and tongue soon went numb. These [...]  The saying “To know your future, you must know your past” is of special value to biologists. There’s no better way to understand an organism, than by it’s ancestry. It’s the only way creatures make any sense really! From appendices to tail bones, a species evolutionary past can sheds light on otherwise unexplainable features. But [...]  Scientists from the University of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada have discovered photosynthetic algae living inside embryonic cells of the spotted salamander, providing them with extra power like a mean green energy drink. If true, this is the first known example of a vertebrate acquiring a new symbiont. The spotted salamander is a salamander species [...] |
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