The research team carried out a variety of tests, both in the field (where they failed to find evidence of carbon dioxide or methane — a gas
used by all living things — in the soil) and then back in the lab at McGill in Montreal.
Creationists sometimes try to get around this by claiming that the information
carried by living things lets them create order.
Carbonates can be
deposited by living things that scavenge the minerals to build their skeletons, but that is not the case for the minerals measured by this team.
In simple language and sharp color photographs, these profiles of bioacousticians — scientists who study the sounds
made by living things — introduce a fascinating subject and show the thrill of scientific discovery up close.
But there are wider and more long - lived traces too, in the form of changed patterns of carbon isotopes (
absorbed by every living thing) and in tiny, virtually indestructible particles of fly ash released from furnaces and chimneys.
The question has stumped oceanographers for decades: How is dissolved nitrogen gas transformed into a kind that can be
used by living things?
Forensic scientists are using the rate at which the leftover radioactivity is taken up
by living things to pinpoint precisely when plant - derived drugs were grown.
The Force is described to Luke in the original Star Wars as the source of a Jedi knight's powers, «an energy field created
by all living things» that binds us and the galaxy together, and derided by an Imperial officer as «sorcerer's way» and an «ancient religion.»
This method relies on the uptake of a naturally occurring radioactive isotope of carbon, carbon - 14
by all living things.
It's an energy field created
by all living things — it surrounds us, and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together.»
It covers food chains and energy flow, why energy is required
by living things and moves learners on to food webs.