Ocean and plastic... a huge problem.

Scientist very worried about plastic pollution in Oceans.

Plastic is a human-made material. There is no other specie in the planet that use this kind of material... is a big problem for our planet and the humans have to revert this mistake.

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Millions of Tons! Scientists Tally Up Plastic Pollution in Oceans - NBC News.com
The trash vortex | Greenpeace International
The Ocean Cleanup, developing technologies to extract, prevent and intercept plastic pollution

New ways for make oxygen

New research had discovered a new way for create oxygen using carbon dioxine.

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Scientists discover a new origin of oxygen on Earth and in space - LA Times

Micropia

Another type of zoo...

Asmterdam has created a new museum-zoo of microbes.

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Home - Micropia

The "group selection" is natural...

The local adaptation in natural populations should be controlled usign biological mechanisms like "group selection".

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Spiders: Survival of the fittest group -- ScienceDaily

Design and hack synthetic biology

Make fun programming bacteria DNA.
Accessible biotech allows biology education and practice to the community.

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Synthetic biology

Anthropocene

The humans are changing the planet... and of course the humans have a "tag" for this "situation".

"You will not know when are you making history... until your are history"

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Humanity's Legacy May Be The Miles Of Holes We've Dug - Business Insider

Plants communication usign ARN

Scientist had discovered a new method for communication used by plants. These new method is based on interchange of ARN information.

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Scientists think they've discovered an entirely new mode of plant communication | The Verge
Genomic-scale exchange of mRNA between a parasitic plant and its hosts