Over two billion years from now, Earth will no longer be able to sustain life. A new study looks at how much life has ever existed and what this means for the discovery of new life-supporting planets.
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A new ‘rule book’ for naming genomically sequenced bacteria is a boon for science.
If you go by editorial cartoons and T-shirts, you might have the impression that evolution proceeds as an orderly march toward a preordained finish line. But that’s not right at all.
Humans play host to many little passengers. Right now, you’re incubating, shedding or have already been colonised by viral, bacterial, parasitic or fungal microorganisms - perhaps even all of them.
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland
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Virologist, The University of Queensland
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Senior Fellow for Biodiversity Studies, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
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Biologist at the Natural History Museum in Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
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Senior Researcher in Biodiversity at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
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Professor in Microbiology and Deputy Director of the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria
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Assistant Professor, Earth Sciences, Carleton University
