by Elio
Your Next Data Storage Device May Be a Spore. "E=mc2 1905!" has been encoded in the DNA of Bacillus subtilis. Quotation marks, superscript, exclamation points, and all. All it took was to encrypt the text of that famous formula as a DNA base sequence, to synthesize a snippet of DNA...
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Snippets: March 07
Fossil Caviar or Giant Bacteria?
by Elio
When is an egg not an egg? When it is a giant bacterium. Fancy that. The story begins in 1998, when egg- and embryo-like structures were found in great abundance in 580 million year old calcium phosphate rocks in China. This announcement caused great excitement since details about the origin...
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Talmudic Question #8
Can you think of a place on Earth where there is free water but no microbes?
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