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more about #bacteria more comments → Daveinva: As neat as this all is, the bottom line is the same as it was back in 1996: we won't prove a damn thing until we discover this sort of thing *on Mars*... more » Roklimber: I knew I shouldn't have peed on Mars when I was coming to Earth. But, hey, stupid engineers don't make decent bathrooms in spaceships, you know, and w... more » twophrasebark: . more » mekki: So this meteorite was found in Antarctica with Earth like bacteria. How do we know the bacteria simply didn't come from Earth itself and some how got ... more » Rusty626: The one thing I never understood about this meteorite is how do they know it's from Mars? more » Jassen: One day a scientist is going to get stoned and lick one of those mars meteorites, the bacteria in his mouth will interact with the dormant bacteria in... more » Friedhamster: I think the biggest thing hindering missions to Mars is money. There just isn't enough right now. more » Honu Harry: Oh great, there go our terraforming plans. Now the Greens..I mean Reds...will sue to stop every mission. Freakin' longhairs love alien bacteria more t... more » Slinkytech: And this was also placed to test us from God? Just like how Heaven is in the sky? Jesus is a jew, making god actually a jew god. I don't like religion. more » ♠ Final ♠: Sounds real damn expensive. The countries that have to deal with land mines are usually Third World and their leaders would probably opt for another ... more » gorehound: those little bacties sure are cool and glow like a psychedelic trip more » goldfarb: I've always wondered why people don't just use one of these things to 'look' for land mines... just drive around making a huge amount of noise and di... more » tetracycloide: well they can't be harmless to everything because they must eat something. also, what help would the be on minefields to new for enough chemicals to ... more » crashedpc - Haifisch: That's fine and dandy until the bacteria animate said mines and thus creating the first sentient landmines. With a vengeance. more » QuinbyFisher: Stromatolites are the oldest living things we can see or touch. (There are probably older subterranean and deep sea bacterial colonies and rock-based ... more » -
#madscience
New Evidence Points to Fossilized Life on Mars
Thirteen years ago, a team of researchers studying the Allan Hills meteorite found evidence that the rock might contain fossils of Martian bacteria. Now, fresh evidence makes a stronger case that Mars once contained life very similar to Earth bacteria. More » -
#madscience
Synthetic Bacteria Can Reveal Landmines
Tailor-made microbes could save thousands of lives a year in poor nations, but not in the way you would think. A new breed of bioengineered bacteria can spot buried explosives. More » -
#ancientorganisms
The Oldest Living Things in the World
Photographer Rachel Sussman travels around the world taking pictures of organisms that have been alive for thousands of years, and will still be around long after we're gone — from venerable bushes to bacteria that's survived over 400,000 years. More » -
#madscience
Nanoparticle Breakthroughs That Could Save Millions of Lives
Although some kinds of nanomaterials (like carbon nanotubes) can be harmful to your health, scientists are quickly developing nanoparticle therapies that can fight cancer and bacterial infections better than any of our current medications. More » -
#lifeonice
Scientists Play "Jurassic Park," Coax Ancient Glacial Bacteria Back To Life
Scientists at Pennsylvania State University resurrected glacial bacteria that had been buried for 120,000 years, raising hopes that if there was ever life on Mars, we might be able to re-animate it, too. More » -
#madscience
Could Metal-Excreting Bacteria Avert The Next World War?
Scientists at the Institute of Physiological Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany want to prevent the next generation of international conflict over scarce natural resources. So they're trying to reverse-engineer metal-extracting bacteria. More » -
