following reasons:? Select one or more:
A. The chloroplasts that carry out photosynthesis in green plants are evolutionary descendents of early cyanobacteria.
B. They are known to be the earliest forms of life on Earth.
C. The methane they produce is a greenhouse gas that could have helped...
Spaceships can't pull in foreign objects with a almost-magical tractor beam yet, but researchers have been making progress towards that goal. Scientists have now shown that tractor beams are possible, and can actually work. For microscopic objects over microscopic distances at least. More »
A few weeks ago I was going to fill up my water bottle that had been sitting on the kitchen counter for a couple days and noticed that there were tons of these little tiny light brown/ white bugs on the cap. I washed it with extremely hot water but the next morning the little bugs were on it...
It's a bit of a challenge. But, imagine a microscopic jet vacuum cleaner, the size of a pen nib that hovers over cell surfaces without ever touching them. Then imagine that the soap in the cleaning solution is replaced with various molecules that can be selectively delivered to the cells. This...
A space flight by millions of microscopic worms could help us overcome the numerous threats posed to human health by space travel. The Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) have also given experts an insight into how to block muscle degradation in the sick and elderly. The worms - from The...