This Plant You’ve Never Heard of Can Do What Scientists Thought Was Impossible

A study on beetleweed shows that autopolyploid plants with different chromosome sets can coexist, reshaping how scientists understand rapid speciation. About 3.7 billion years ago, a chain of naturally occurring amino acids, similar to those found in meteorites and, more recently, in a stellar nursery near the center of the Milky Way, reacted with a [...]