Fundamental Ingredient for Life Discovered in Comet
From Fox News, Glycine has been found on comet Wild 2. Carbon 13 was used as an indicator of extraterrestrial origin.
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Walking bats
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
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.
