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As grandiose as we might think our civilizations have become, we are but the latest entry in the long chronicle detailing life on Earth. We humans share this planet with fellow organisms whose vast numbers completely tower over our own. We borrowed this planet from its previous inhabitants from eons ago and whose lives were written on the soil-turned-rock on which they were laid to rest. Modern Sciences urges its readers to contemplate our planetary co-inhabitants, both past and present.
Future Crops Might Soon See Fertilizers Replaced By Bioengineered Bacteria
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) announced earlier this year that researchers from Washington State University (WSU) successfully…
Scientists Used Heart Cells to Make a Biohybrid “Fish”—And It Swims Using “Heartbeats”
First off, no, scientists did not slap fins onto a human heart and made it backstroke across a…
Mass starvation, extinctions, disasters: the new IPCC report’s grim predictions, and why adaptation efforts are falling behind
Mark Howden, Australian National University; Joy Pereira, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia), and Roberto Sánchez, Colegio…
The insect brain: we froze ants and beetles to learn how they remember their way home
Ioannis Pisokas, University of Edinburgh; Ajay Narendra, Macquarie University, and Ayse Yilmaz-Heusinger, Lund University We humans are versatile…
Digital sound archives can bring extinct birds (briefly) back to life
Colorized version of a 1935 photo of a male ivory-billed woodpecker, now believed to be extinct. Photographed by…
These “Toy” Dog Genes Can Be Traced Back to 54,000-Year-Old Wolves
Your nearest Chihuahua may appear so distant in appearance to its wolf-like ancestors that they might as well…
This Costa Rican Lake May Reveal How Mars Could Have Hosted Life
Near the center of Costa Rica is its famous volcano called Volcán Poás, whose peaks house two crater…
Nerve Tissue Impressions Preserved In 500-Million-Year-Old Arthropod Fossils
It’s true that nature certainly seems relentless, in that it is only capable of preserving such a small…
Cod ‘supergenes’ reveal how they are evolving in response to overfishing
Travel Faery / shutterstock Tom Cameron, University of Essex Cod “supergenes” have shed light on how they respond…
Pain Medication Receives New Insights Thanks to Spider Venom
No, please don’t look away—I swear I’m not here to scare you off. This may sound strange at…