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Sun Jul 5

• Rader's BIOLOGY 4 KIDS.COM: If you are looking for basic biology information, you've come to the right place. It's not just biology for kids, it's for everyone. We have information on cell structure, cell function, scientific studies, plants, vertebrates, invertebrates, and other life science topics. If you're not sure what to click, try the site map that lists all of the topics on the site.

Tue Jun 30

• Our Food and Microorganisms

Sun Jun 28

• 7 Factors Needed for a Compost Pile | Piles Treatment Blog: Compost, made from decomposed grass clippings, leaves, twigs, and branches, becomes a dark, crumbly mixture of organic matter. Learn how composting

Fri Jun 26

• eukaryoticcell _comp: awesome cell animations of an animal cell

Thu Jun 25

• DLC-ME | The Microbe Zoo

Tue Jun 23

• Library of Images from the Environment (LIFE)/

Mon Jun 22

• Extreme Life Thrives Where the Livin? Ain?t Easy | Wired Science | Wired.com: Once upon a time, scientists routinely found life in places where it wasn?t supposed to exist. That doesn?t happen anymore, and not because the pace of discovery has slowed. If anything, it?s accelerated. It?s simply become clear that life can exist almost anywhere on Earth. After 3 billion years of evolution, life has flowed into every last nook and cranny, from the bottom of the sea to the upper edge of the stratosphere. From blazing heat and freezing cold to pure acidity and atomic bomb-caliber radiation, there?s seemingly no stress so great that some bug can?t handle it. This gallery highlights a few particularly tough species of bacteria and archaea, a lesser-appreci ated but equally-vast branch of the organismal tree. Until the late 1970s, archaea was lumped in with bacteria, a confusion that speaks to the embryonic state of human microbial knowledge. Less than 1 percent of Earth?s microorganisms have been identified, and most of those won?t even grow in a lab.

Sun Jun 21

• Bands of Iron: The winner of the 2009 Quark Award for science writing from 3QD. Humbling. "Eventual ly, evolution found a way, as evolution nearly always does, and oxygen was tamed to become a power source in an entirely new metabolic cycle. The oxygen-breathe rs arose, the remaining anaerobes retreated to the deep crevices of rocks and the sea, and life found a new equilibrium, with the balance of the atmosphere permanently changed. All the oxygen we breathe today is biologically produced, a tangible proof of life's power to reshape its own world. As well, these banded iron formations may be a metaphor for our own foolhardiness. In our time, we too are changing the composition of the planet's atmosphere, this time through the release of greenhouse gases. In the process, we are becoming the first species since the ancient photosynthetic bacteria to have such a global effect... Those bands of iron are a warning of what happens when life reshapes its own environment without thought for the consequences.& quot;

Fri Jun 19

• Bacteria can anticipate future events and plan for them: Researchers have found that Ivan Pavlov's Conditioned Response theory can apply to bacteria and be used to genetically engineer microorganisms , such as during the fermentation process of making biofuels.

Wed Jun 17

• Microbes May Be More Networked Than You Are: Wtf!?! "We are slowly, yet steadily, realizing that many bacteria produce nanowires. And the extracellular structures connecting bacterial cells into complex integrated communities create a pattern that looks suspiciously like a neural network. I believe we now stand at the edge of a new scientific frontier. The study of Electromicrobi ology will certainly provide new insights into the components, reactivity and roles of bacterial nanowires. Deeper knowledge of bacterial activity is tantamount to greater knowledge of our own bodies and the Earth... We?re still in the early stages of this research: Only six studies have been published on bacterial nanowires, but a number of intriguing possibilities exist about what role they could play in the bacterial world." - Yuri Gorby is an electromicrobi ologist at the J. Craig Venter Institute in San Diego

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