A petri dish full of dead bacteria isn’t usually cause for celebration. But for Stanford’s Brian Hie it was a game-changer in his efforts to create synthetic life. The perpetrator was a type of virus ...
(Nanowerk News) Trillions of periodical cicadas — several species of the genus Magicicada that emerge every 13 or 17 years — broke soil across the Eastern U.S. this summer. News outlets likened the ...