It’s a technology that doesn’t even exist yet, but its effects could be so drastically destructive that scientists in the field are calling for it to be banned now, before it’s too late. We’re talking, of course, about “mirror life” — synthetic organisms that quite literally turn natural biology on its head. “We should choose not to build mirror life and …
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Image by Getty / Futurism It’s a technology that doesn’t even exist yet, but its effects could be so drastically destructive that scientists in the field are calling for it to be banned now, before it’s too late. We’re talking, of course, about “mirror life” — synthetic organisms that quite literally turn natural biology on its head. “We should choose not …
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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: While performing routine maintenance on the Large Lake Observatory’s R/V Blue Heron, a marine superintendent found a mysterious goo. Microbial biologists at the University of Minnesota Duluth found that the goo was a new species of archaea that thrived in the semi-warm and anaerobic environment of the ship’s rudder housing. The …
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