There’s a lot more to bacteria than you thought…
In a series of recent findings, researchers describe bacteria that communicate in sophisticated ways, take concerted action, influence human physiology, alter human thinking and work together to bioengineer the environment.
via Bacteria R Us | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. Miller-McCune.
Just a couple of years ago scientists were projecting that we’d need the resources of two Earths by 2050. Seems the timetable’s getting moved up.
At humanity’s present rate of consumption, by 2030 we’ll need the resources of two Earths just to survive long-term. There are really two options: start building another Earth, or drastically change our lifestyles. Which one is supposed to be easier?
via io9′s Humanity will need two Earths to sustain itself in just twenty years.
Woah.
The 42-year-old mother of the boy, who is not named in the study, began trying to get pregnant using IVF ten years ago. At the time, she and her husband received embryos from a heterosexual couple who had themselves undergone IVF.
That couple had anonymously donated their leftover embryos after the woman successfully gave birth. Thing was, they did so in 1990 – meaning that the boy just born to the woman in the study has a sibling out there somewhere who was conceived at the same time but is 20 years younger.
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