Articles for tag: bioengineering, Discover Wildlife, Microbial Life, NASA Cleanroom, Scientific Discovery, Space Technology, Wildlife and Science

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NASA Newly Discovered Cleanroom Microbes Could Survive Space and Revolutionize Earth

Jan Otte

Far in NASA’s super-sterile cleanrooms where spacecraft are assembled carefully to not infect other planets, researchers have made a staggering discovery: 26 new, undiscovered species of bacteria flourishing where nearly everything should perish. The microbes, impervious to extreme forms of sterilization, hold genetic information that might re-engineer biotechnology, medicine, and even our definition of life ...

Helium Hotspot? Why Scientists Are Swarming to the Yellowstone Region

Jan Otte

Yellowstone National Park is famous for its geysers, bison, and breathtaking landscapes but scientists now believe it could hold the key to solving a modern resource crisis. Hidden beneath the park’s bubbling hot springs and volcanic activity may lie vast reserves of helium, an element critical for everything from MRI machines to quantum computing. What ...

Three African elephants interacting playfully in their natural habitat on a sunny day.

What Is Allomothering? Discover the Surprising Social Life of Elephants

Jan Otte

When an elephant mother requires support, she does not have to look far. In the close-knit society of elephant herds, aunties, sisters, and even teenage “nannies” come to babysit, educate, and guard calves, a phenomenon that scientists refer to as allomothering. This co-operative system of childcare isn’t a one-in-a-million display of compassion, it’s the foundation ...

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What South Africa’s Wildlife Reveals About Language, Identity, and Conservation

Jan Otte

South Africa’s biodiversity isn’t simply a cache of exotic species, it’s also a living repository of cultural history. For decades, scientific literature has compiled frogs and reptiles in Latin names, so the Indigenous nomenclature for these animals is dispersed and unrecorded. And now, in a trailblazing research led by zoologist Fortunate Phaka, the first comprehensive ...

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World’s Oldest Loon Touches Down in Michigan, Is a Reunion in the Air?

Jan Otte

The world’s oldest recorded common loon, a record-breaking matriarch known as Fe, has arrived back in Michigan’s Seney National Wildlife Refuge and with her return are the latest chapters in one of the animal kingdom’s most intriguing love stories. At 39, Fe is not just an age wonder but the most prolific loon mother ever ...