How did plants become carnivorous?

The carnivorous plants of Asia, Australia and the Americas share a common trait despite the distance that separates them: the genetic machinery for digesting insects.  Carnivorous plants, which live in nutrient-poor habitats, capture insects by setting a trap from...

XXI century: the reality of gas, coal and oil.

We are currently experiencing a momentous change in the way in which the energy industry should be part of our daily lives.Never has concern for the environment and the feared climate change that we are causing been so evident, nor has it materialized in the making...

The oldest fossils on earth have been found.

Remains of 3.77-billion-year-old microorganisms, which were discovered in sedimentary rocks from ancient hydrothermal vents, became the first evidence of life on Earth. Hydrothermal vents under the oceans have long been considered one of the earliest environments that...