Microscopy reveals signs of life in Earth's extremes, boosting search for alien life
New research from Portland State University focused on identifying signs of life—biosignatures—in extreme environments here ...
Global megastardom to living the quiet life - what happened to the cast of Top Gun?
From achieving superstardom to leading quiet lives away from the limelight, the actors' lives are as varied as the characters ...
New guide seeks to advance DNA library of marine species
A team of scientists has created a new guide to advance standards for collecting and cataloging DNA from marine species, ...
What happened to the Top Gun cast? From Hollywood megastardom to the quiet life
Top Gun was released in 1986 and the cast have taken very different paths since appearing in the classic action film ...
Dan Haar: Mystic Seaport Museum to exhibit hundreds of historic boats — but needs a money boost
Mystic Seaport Museum is working to open an exhibition space to show its American Watercraft Collection of rare vessels in ...
Grist1d
What ‘the world’s loneliest whale’ may be telling us about climate change
A mysterious whale that has long puzzled scientists may not be an anomaly, but a clue to what climate change is doing beneath ...
The Paris Review1d
What Stirs the Life in You? The Garden Asks
The Garden’s scent is a messenger, arriving again and again, inviting us in. Hidden exchanges, hidden cycles stir life ...
The World from PRX1d
In Antarctic waters once covered by massive sheet of ice, scientists find thriving ecosystem
Back in January, a massive chunk of ice the size of Chicago broke off from an ice sheet on Antarctica’s coast. Exploring the waters this oversized block of ice once covered, scientists found — to ...
Chicago 'monstrologist' once tried to get proof the Loch Ness monster was real — and his long-lost underwater camera was just found
Roy P. Mackal — the controversial and colorful University of Chicago scientist whose study of monsters caught the attention ...
The Daily World on MSN1d
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Members of the Mystic Menagerie, the South Sound Pod, the Emerald Sea Sirens, the Cascadia Pod, the Whidbey Island Sirens Pod ...
Orion Magazine2d
What the Fish Taught Me
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region / Flickr THE FIRST FISH were completely marine, originating in the ocean. When coastlines got ...
A Curious Mutation Is Letting Earth’s Deep-Sea Creatures Survive the Abyss
A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...