organism

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Grace is sent into space on a one-way mission to stop the spread of an energy-consuming organism called Astrophage, which threatens to create a new Ice Age on Earth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

She added that the drugs did not provide effective coverage against a Gram-positive organism, which was the most likely pathogen causing the infection.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

To retrieve the organism, the team drilled a 25-meter ice core from a section of the cave called the Great Hall, capturing a frozen record spanning 13,000 years.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2026

"While the last universal common ancestor is the most ancient organism we can study with evolutionary methods," said Goldman, "some of the genes in its genome were much older."

From Science Daily • Feb. 10, 2026

The first living things were not anything so complex as a one-celled organism, already a highly sophisticated form of life.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan