According to a small new experiment, playing through the greenery and debris of Mini Forest’s undergrowth for just a month may be enough to change a child’s immune system. When daycare workers in Finland do not bring in workers, cultivate forest lands such as dwarf heather and blueberries, and allow …
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There is a tremendous variety of life beneath the surface of the earth. A new analysis of two large groups of subsurface microorganisms has now revealed that their evolutionary path to life in the dark has been more bizarre than we expected. During the first 2 billion years of our …
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Scientists have revived microbes found in sediments 100 million years ago from the depths of the ocean floor. The experiment sheds new light on where life can be found on Earth, and how resilient it can be. According to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, the microbes …
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Researchers have successfully revived dormant microbes trapped in an apparently lifeless area of the seabed for more than 100 million years. A team of scientists from Japan and the United States was looking to see if microscopic life survives in less hospitable conditions below the sea floor of the Pacific …
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This is the Strange saga of how scientists went to some of the deepest, darkest depths of the ocean, dug 250 feet into the sediment, collected an ancient community of microbes, took them back to a laboratory, and revived them. And you’re going to think: Why, in the already horrible …
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