/channels/taxonomy/term/9020/all en /channels/channels/news/biodiversity-its-own-catalyst-point-328209 <p>For decades, scientists have wrestled with rival theories to explain how interactions between species, like competition, influence biodiversity. Tracking microbial life across the planet, researchers from Æ»¹ûÒùÔº show that biodiversity does in fact foster further diversity in microbiomes that are initially less diverse. However, diversity rates plateau with increased competition for survival and space in more diverse microbiomes.</p> Wed, 03 Feb 2021 15:01:27 +0000 webfull 167512 at /channels /channels/channels/event/new-insights-microbial-life-within-oceanic-crust-sorted-cell-omics-327396 <p>Environmental Biology Seminar Series. Invited speaker: <strong>Professor Jackie Goordial</strong>, University of Guelph; this seminar is hosted by the Whyte Lab</p> <p><strong>Online seminar</strong> from 11:30-12:30 EST</p> Tue, 05 Jan 2021 21:41:35 +0000 webfull 166579 at /channels /channels/channels/news/life-could-exist-mars-today-very-close-surface-302609 <p>Scientists tackle the question of what kinds of life might reside now on the Red Planet, and how we might find it.</p> <p>Last week NASA convened a visionary meeting in New Mexico to consider a topic critical to astrobiology—whether life currently exists on Mars, and if so, how to detect it. The site of the conference was near the world-renowned Carlsbad Caverns, which attendees got to visit during a mid-conference workshop.</p> Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:22:50 +0000 webfull 155451 at /channels /channels/news/nearing-limits-life-earth-257865 <p><em><strong>By Katherine Gombay, </strong><strong><a href="//www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/">Æ»¹ûÒùÔº Newsroom</a></strong></em></p> <p><em>Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars</em></p> Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:27:40 +0000 webfull 115267 at /channels /channels/news/nearing-limits-life-earth-257977 <h3>Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars</h3> <p>Natural Resource Sciences professor Lyle Whyte and postdoctoral fellow Jackie Goordial talk about their research which suggests that it is unlikely that it is unlikely that there is any microbial life to be found on Mars.</p> Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:32:49 +0000 webfull 115343 at /channels