The fossilized remains of a creature with a twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth have been discovered in the Amazon jungle. Scientists say the plant eating reptiles now called Tanyka consisted of “living fossils” even when they stalked the Earth around 275 million years ago. A international team of paleontologists recently revealed this strange creature based […]

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Last week, GNN reported that fungi were being trailed by scientists in Austria for their potential to extract valuable metals from electronic and industrial wastes. Now from the ISS comes a very similar story where, rather than ‘mushroom mining,’ scientists were able to extract platinum and palladium with ‘microbe mining.’ It’s actually ‘microbe meteorite mining,’ […]

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Researchers in Brazil have demonstrated that ultrasonic waves can be used to extract polyphenolic nutrients from leftover cocoa bean husks, as long as you add honey first. Few things are tastier than dark chocolate dipped in honey, but the researchers weren’t only creating a tasty dessert. Rather, they demonstrated how the vast majority of cocoa […]

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A research team led by scientists at the University of Waterloo, Ontario is developing a novel tool to treat cancer by engineering hungry bacteria to literally eat tumors from the inside out. Key to the approach is a bacterium called Clostridium sporogenes, which is commonly found in soil and can only grow in environments with […]

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