Medicine & TechnologyScientists stumbled upon a tusk of a woolly mammoth that was buried at a riverbank in Alaska. Read more about the discovery and the information it offers to our studies on ice age and paleontology.
Through the use of simple components, sugar, oxygen and transfer molecules, the mitochondria are able to create and store energy through the simple movement of electrons from one bond to another. And in spite of conflicting theories describing their possible origins, a new study at the University of Virginia is proving that the energy creators weren’t always self-sustaining components.