desert varnish Type post Date July 16, 2021 CategoriesLife Sciences Tagged , bacteria, biomolecules, desert varnish, glass, manganese, Michael Denton, microbes, Native Americans, photosynthetic bacteria, PNAS, Romans, The Miracle of the Cell, United States, Utah, wind Living Murals: Wall Art Made by Photosynthetic Bacteria Science and Culture July 16, 2021 Life Sciences 8 Long suspected to be biological in origin, desert varnish is confirmed to be the product of light-gathering microbes that concentrate manganese as sunscreen. Read More ›
roots Type post Date February 27, 2020 CategoriesBotanyEpistemologyIntelligent DesignLife Sciences Tagged , __edited, ammonia, BBC News, biosphere, dinitrogen, flowering plants, fungi, intelligent design, Jordan, maize, micronutrients, nitrogen fixation, oxygen, pesticides, photosynthetic bacteria, soil, water Getting to the Roots of Design Science and Culture February 27, 2020 Botany, Epistemology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences 7 Plants make food for everyone else, but they couldn’t do it without a lot of help from their microbial friends. Read More ›
