Sentences with phrase «of microbial life»

Knowledge of the diversity of microbial life in the oceans continues to grow.

An analysis of the deepest spot in the oceans finds signs of microbial life.

There isn't just one vast smear of microbial life where all shapes, sizes, body features and chemistry can be found in any old mix.

Scientists have discovered a rich fossil record of animal evolution going back more than 600 million years and a much richer one of microbial life starting almost 4 billion years ago.

The researchers found several indigenous species of microbial life that had adapted to live in the harsh environment.

This is because it involves cultivation of microbial life in your own kitchen!

Fossils discovered by UNSW scientists in 3.48 billion year old hot spring deposits in the Pilbara region of Western Australia have pushed back by 580 million years the earliest known existence of microbial life on land.

Today, the team announced that they have the first evidence of microbial life in subglacial Antarctic waters, shown here just as the team's underwater camera reached the bottom of the lake.

The discovery pushes back the earliest known existence of microbial life on land by at least 580 million years, and raises an intriguing question — where did life first emerge, on land or in the oceans?

Yong's exploration of microbial life featured the story of Antony van Leeuwenhoek, a 17th century Dutch draper and civil servant from the town of Delft — a topic that the first - time author examines in his book entitled «I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life,» which captures the history, science and significance of microbes.

«The amount of different types of microbial life present in the cloud droplets that make up a winter storm is amazing,» says Gary Franc, a microbiologist and plant pathologist at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.

The fossils discovered in these formations include stromatolites — layered rock structures created by communities of ancient microbes — and several other signatures of microbial life, such as a microbial palisade texture preserved in stone, and bubbles that were most likely trapped in a sticky substance produced by ancient bacteria.

The initial 2016 phase of the mission would carry an orbiter designed to sniff out possible sources of methane and other trace gases that might signal the presence of microbial life on Mars.

The latest findings of microbial life flourishing in the extreme environment of subglacial Lake Whillans in Antarctica, which were detailed in the first part of this article, are further hinting at the possibility of life existing in a similar fashion as well in the mysterious, underground alien waters of Europa.

Filled with some two dozen wire - woven openwork sculptures by Ruth Asawa, the big second - floor gallery at David Zwirner's West 20th Street space in Chelsea looks like a basketry forest, or a subaqueous garden, or a cloud of microbial life.

In this case, the living dead is the necrobiome, the waves of microbial life that take over a body after death.

We looked at their DNA instead, which we filtered out of the water, to determine where these things fit in with other sorts of microbial life.

Some archaea — a domain of microbial life that was little understood when the Viking landers reached their destination — live in even more extreme situations, flourishing in temperatures far above the boiling point of water and surviving in thick brine.

Sulfur - colored mats of microbial life blanketed porous tubes of new lava.

A recent survey of microbial life found that the oceans are teeming with 10 to 100 times more unique species than scientists expected.

Material in interstellar dust has been found to have spectroscopic properties consistent with the widespread occurrence of microbial life, and studies of meteorites from Mars have established that transfer of life between planets is feasible.

In this perspective they propose the division of microbial life on Earth into three categories: explored, unexplored, and undiscovered.

That storm initially threw a wrench into plans for scientists to get a snapshot of microbial life under normal, hyperarid conditions in the Atacama.

Methane is a known byproduct of microbial life, but it can also arise when water alters minerals below the surface or by escaping from gas - trapping ice cages called clathrates.

Andrew Steele uses traditional and biotechnological approaches for the detection of microbial life in astrobiology and solar system exploration.

She is a member of CIFAR's Integrated Microbial Biodiversity program, which uses interdisciplinary research to study how a diversity of microbial life shapes all ecosystems.

New findings by the Montreal researchers, published in the journal Microbiome, suggest that a more intricate symbiosis of microbial life underpins willows» ability to thrive in these stressful conditions.

In particular, those probes will be scanning for methane gas, a potential sign of microbial life buried in the Martian subsurface.

Curiosity's next task is to determine whether other conditions on ancient Mars, like the chemistry of the soil and air, were also favorable to the development of microbial life.

But unlike the Russian team, they hope to get answers on the presence of microbial life right away, Siegert says, as they'll be analyzing the contents of each bottle of lakewater as they get it.

Many teams have found hints of microbial life in rock samples drilled from the ocean floor.

To read «Nearing the cold - arid limits of microbial life in permafrost of an upper dry valley, Antarctica» by Jacqueline Goordial et al in The ISME Journal: 10.1038 / ismej.2015.239

«But it may also give us a greater understanding of the invisible ecosystems of microbial life that we know are all around us, but that we don't fully comprehend,» says Neal Grantham, a Ph.D. student in statistics at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.

Suddenly, it was possible to scan the overall composition of habitats as diverse as stagnant bogs and frozen tundra, producing a detailed portrait of the microbial life they held.

Data and samples observed by the rover showed the previous presence of lakes and freshwater that are essential in the survival of microbial life.

Terry Hwa: I think the new study of the microbiome will show us two new aspects of microbial life: One is about the phenomena that only emerge when microbes are together in a group; another is about the phenomena that only make sense in the context of a group.

NASA decided to take a direct approach and look for evidence of microbial life as we understood it on Earth.

Epistemological issues in the study of microbial life: alternative terran biospheres?

In recent years, after sending an armada of satellites and surface missions to the planet, we realised that although any life form would have a hard time on the barren, cold, radiation - soaked landscape, there could be alien oases where the most basic forms of microbial life have eked out an existence.

Fluorescense Measurements of Microbial Life in the WAIS Divide Ice Core.

... but while any such creature might make you reach for a chemical facial cleanser, understand this — every human being is housing a whole planet's worth of microbial life.

Approximately 5 lbs of bacteria lives inside of you and the quality of their eco-system — the healthiness of the microbial life plus the diversity — governs your health in so many ways.

Biologists hadn't really studied glacial environments until the late 1990s when the first evidence of microbial life appeared.

The team also collected samples of microbial life that can survive the high salinity and low oxygen levels of the brine pool.

Boston's Harvard Museum of Natural History has just launched «World in a Drop: Photographic Explorations of Microbial Life,» offering a rare and often beautiful view of tiny ecosystems.

Could we pick out signs of microbial life on Mars even before we go digging around in caves there?

Achberger will be continuing the research to sequence the DNA, which will show just what types of microbial life they found and how each of these function in the ecosystem.

«Meanwhile, astrobiologists have considered how signatures of microbial life might be detectable in the solar system or in the atmospheres of extra-solar planets,» Davies added.

The discovery of fossils of microorganisms in 3.48 billion - year - old hot spring deposits pushes back the earliest known existence of microbial life on land by at least 580 million years.