ENORMOUS MICROBE The largest virus ever discovered, Pithovirus sibericum, has been resurrected from 30,000-year-old- permafrost. In this electron microscope image and false-colored micrograph, the 1.5-micrometer-long virus rests in an amoeba cell.
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BEYOND THE PALE In several population studies, African albinos, represented here by a heavily freckled young man, frequently died young from skin cancers. Such cancers drove the evolution of dark skin early in Homo evolution, a new paper proposes.
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This bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) maybe just a worker, but with a little less methylation she could start laying eggs of her own.
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Scientists can now “see” a single living cell made visible by its own light. A new image intensifier, which amplifies the very faint light of an individual cell in a way somewhat like the television screen makes its bright picture, has been developed. It can be made to amplify light as much as a million and a half times….
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