Published on: 2025-07-03 16:35:50
In space travel, it can often be the tiniest things that ruin a big mission. That’s why attention to detail is key, particularly inside a cleanroom where spacecraft are put together and prepped for their rigorous journey through the cosmos. But even those meticulously regulated rooms can’t keep some microorganisms out. In fact, some bacteria thrive in the stringent environment. A group of scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as well as other institutes in India and Saudi Arabia, disc
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The way organismic agents come to know the world, and the way algorithms solve problems, are fundamentally different. The most sensible course of action for an organism does not simply follow from logical rules of inference. Before it can even use such rules, the organism must tackle the problem of relevance. It must turn ill-defined problems into well-defined ones, turn semantics into syntax. This ability to realize relevance is present in all organisms, from bacteria to humans. It lies at the
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Most planetary scientists agree that Mars’ extreme conditions would be uninhabitable to life as we know it. New research, however, suggests that we might be underestimating the hardiness of lichens. Researchers in Poland have revealed that some lichen species can endure a Mars-like environment while remaining biologically active. As detailed in a study published Monday in the journal IMA Fungus, their work challenges the widely held notion that Mars’ surface is, in its current state, completely
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Hundreds of millions of years ago, mysterious life forms called Prototaxites towered toward the sky. Believed to be the first giant organisms to thrive on dry land, some species of Prototaxites grew up to 26 feet (8 meters) in height and resembled tree trunks composed of tiny interconnected tubes. Their position in the greater tree of life has been hotly debated for over a century and a half. New research suggests this is because Prototaxites don’t have a place in the tree of life as we know it—
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