SARP West 2024 Whole Air Sampling (WAS) Group

SARP West 2024 Oceans Group

Cloud-to-ground lightning strikes may have generated building blocks for life on Earth: « The group describes how they set up an experiment in their lab meant to mimic the conditions on early Earth. »

Creature the size of a dust grain found hiding in California’s Mono Lake | Colonies of these choanoflagellates — members of a group considered to be the closest living relatives of all animals — have their own unique microbiomes.