Do we have any estimates as to how long it takes for a species of bacteria to go technically extinct entirely via genetic drift? - Lemmy.World

So, let’s say there’s a species of bacteria that is known to dwell in Greek yogurt. How long would it take before that species of yogurt-dweller only has modern descendants different enough to qualify as one or more new species?

How would you go about determining where you’ve already been in 1.20 caves? - Lemmy.World

I’m tempted to start making oddly specific small statues made of random materials, maybe with limbs pointing to the previous statue in a sequence. Is there a better method?

Do we have any theories as to why complex life eventually started requiring various metal elements as micronutrients? - Lemmy.World

For example, why did zinc, of all things, start getting utilized by brain and prostate tissue in humans?

How do some animals (or at least humans) manage to generate more force than their own muscles are rated to handle? - Lemmy.World

Just as an example, there were evidently reports during the 2007 Glasgow airport attack that someone attempting to subdue the assailant and assist police kicked said attacker in the testicles… but somehow managed to do so hard enough to injure one of their own foot tendons.

Does this description imply that life-support gel is an engineered breathable liquid? - Lemmy.World

Do we know whether Australian magpies have similar intelligence to true corvids? - Lemmy.World

Depending on the setting and its origins, perhaps a scholarly Bard would work well. - Lemmy.World

Do we know of a means by which artificial nuclear fusion could be used to mimic stellar carbon-12 production? - Lemmy.World