Despite the red planet’s brutality, lichens that inhabit some of the harshest environments on Earth could possibly survive there. Lichens are symbionts, or two organisms that are in a ...

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“It is no use asking for the impossible, such as, say, the exact wiring diagram for a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and the way all its neurons are firing,” Crick wrote in Scientific America ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A comprehensive wiring diagram and functional map of a mouse brain's visual cortex, the largest to date, has been created from a cubic millimeter of tissue. This ...

WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) - Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex ...

A recent experiment has shown that certain lichen species can remain metabolically active in an environment similar to that found on Mars. The study challenges assumptions that Mars is entirely ...

Cetraria aculeata superimposed on Mars. Credit: Lichen: Skubała et al. Design: Pensoft Publishers. In a groundbreaking study, scientists have shown that certain types of lichens—organisms known ...