They found it buried in the muddy shores of the Potomac River more than three decades ago: a strange “sediment organism” that could do things nobody had ever seen before in bacteria. This unusual microbe, belonging to the Geobacter genus, was first noted for its ability to produce magnetite in the […]
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Graphic: Photograph of the wire fragment taken by electronic microscopy (the fragment is somewhere around 6.two mm long and .five mm wide). look at more Credit score: © C2RMF Opposite to well known belief, Neanderthals had been no a lot less technologically highly developed than Homo sapiens. An global group, together […]
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Hi, I’m Scientific American podcast editor Steve Mirsky. And here’s a short piece from the March 2020 difficulty of the magazine, in the segment referred to as Advances: Dispatches From The Frontiers Of Science, Technology And Medication. The short article is titled Swift Hits, and it is a rundown of […]