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One Bad Trial, One Big Problem: How a Flawed Study Skewed Prozac Guidance for Children
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Before Shells and Skeletons: Why 1.7-Billion-Year-Old Microfossils Matter for the Future of Life Science

Before Shells and Skeletons: Why 1.7-Billion-Year-Old Microfossils Matter for the Future of Life Science

Posted on 18 August, 2026 by Mehrdad Fathi

For roughly 90% of Earth’s history, our planet belonged to microbes. The leap from single-celled bacteria to plants, animals, and fungi is arguably the most consequential transition in biology — and yet the fossil evidence for it remains remarkably thin. Paleontologist Ross Anderson (University of Oxford) is working to change that. His team searches some of Earth’s oldest rocks for eukaryotic microfossils — the earliest cells with a nucleus and organelles like mitochondria. These “crown...

Today In History

Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 21 October.

  1. US Navy frigate Constitution Old Ironsides launched in Boston
  2. Battle of Trafalgar Adm Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet
  3. Severe earthquake at 7:53 a.m. centered in Hayward Calif.
  4. 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore
  5. Thomas Edison perfects the light bulb.
  6. Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago is dedicated.
  7. Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min.
  8. Deutsches Museum Munich 1st Walther Bauersfeld's Zeiss Planetarium.
  9. During WWII US troops captured Aachen 1st large German city to fall
  10. Women in France allowed to vote for the 1st time
  11. Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated Washington DC
  12. Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright opens in NY
  13. JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final pres debate
  14. Ejnar Hertzsprung Danish astrophysicist dies at 94.
  15. Thousands opposing Vietnam War tried to storm the Pentagon
  16. Nixon nominates Lewis F. Powell & William H. Rehnquist to US Supreme Court following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan
  17. 1st Islander shut-out opponent - Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps
  18. Venera 9 1st craft to orbit the planet Venus launched
  19. Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
  20. US recalls William Bowdler ambassador to South Africa
  21. Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2 h 8 m 5 s.