organisms

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When life develops on a planet, powerful impacts can blast material from its surface into space, potentially carrying microscopic organisms or organic compounds to other worlds.

From Science Daily • Jun. 26, 2026

Next, they looked for chemical signatures that could reveal whether living organisms had played a role in creating the structures.

From Science Daily • Jun. 26, 2026

"These ecosystems are very dynamic, and the algal composition is changing really quickly," she says, adding that the pool should be monitored constantly "to know which organisms are living there".

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026

Working evenings at the Harlem Hospital, he invented a method for characterizing bacterial organisms in patients with pneumonia, publishing his first paper at the age of 21.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026

Before then, new varieties of organisms could arise only from the accumulation of random mutations—the selection of changes, letter by letter, in the genetic instructions.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan