Fundamental Ingredient for Life Discovered in Comet
August18
From Fox News, Glycine has been found on comet Wild 2. Carbon 13 was used as an indicator of extraterrestrial origin.
Walking bats
August4
From Biology News Net, a look at the fossil relative of the New Zealand’s lesser short-tailed bat shows that walking isn’t due to a dearth of predators and competition. Interesting fact the male lesser short-tailed bats have singing contests.
New Microbe Strain Makes More Electricity, Faster
August3
From Science daily, a new strain of Geobactor, the darling of electricity producers, has been discovered. Using selective pressure, a team from University of Massachusetts Amherst has evolved a strain that forms a thinner biofilm.