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Trapped in the Ice: Antarctic Microbes Reveal a Hidden Engine of Climate Cooling
A winter expedition to the Southern Ocean finds sea ice harboring up to 38 times more of a key climate-cooling compound than the surrounding seawater — reframing one of the planet’s most hostile environments as an active engine of the global sulfur cycle.
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CONVERSATIONS WITH JOANNA MASEL: On the Evolutionary Origins of Amino Acids and Rewriting Life’s Code.
In a new study that rewrites part of life’s earliest evolutionary narrative, researchers have used cutting-edge phylogenetic techniques to infer the sequence in which amino acids were added to the genetic code—tracing all the way back to the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA). By analyzing a vast number of ancient protein sequences, the team identified…
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Conversations with Bertie Gregory: Discovering how amazing penguins don’t read scripts.
Bertie Gregory’s “Secrets of the Penguins” reveals surprising behaviors and emotional depth of penguins through immersive wildlife storytelling.