How an alga makes the most of dim light by rearranging ordinary chlorophyll

To survive in areas where it is difficult to photosynthesize, some organisms adopt unique strategies. Osaka Metropolitan ...
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Some organisms used oxygen hundreds of millions of years before it was abundant

Aerobic respiration began hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought, a new study suggests. Oxygen is a vital and constant presence on Earth today. But that hasn’t always been the ...
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Scientists Created Organisms In A Lab That Exist In A 'Third State' Beyond Life And Death

What if scientists could take cells from both living and dead organisms and turn them into entirely new organisms beyond life and death? While it might sound completely out of this world—something you ...
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A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas

The life sciences focus on patterns, processes, and relationships of living organisms. Life is self-contained, self-sustaining, self-replicating, and evolving, operating according to laws of the ...