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Volcanic rock discovery could reveal secrets of Earth's history
Geologists in Scotland have discovered a completely new type of volcanic rock, which they believe will help to pinpoint the precise time in Earth's history at which life emerged from the oceans and began to colonise...
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Mars life
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A scientist believes techniques used to find oil and gas in the North Sea could help establish whether life could survive on Mars.
Professor John Parnell, from Aberdeen University, has been studying the Haughton meteor crater using methods for detecting oil and gas underground.
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Alien life
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The chances of finding life somewhere else in the Universe depends on how many planets are capable of supporting life. According to new calculations by astronomers at Open University, as many as half of all star systems cou...
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Ingredients for life
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found the ingredients for life all the way back to a time when the universe was a mere youngster.
Using Spitzer, scientists have detected organic molecules in galaxies when our universe was one-fourth of its current age of about 14 billion years. These large mol...
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Primitive life
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Martian Aliens
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Some hardy Earth microbes could survive long enough on Mars to complicate the search for alien life, according to a new study co-authored by University of Florida researchers.
Though scientists looking for life on Mars worry about contamination from stowaway spores clinging to spacecraft, th...
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Titan Life
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The chemical signature of microbial life could be hidden in readings taken by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe when it landed on Titan in January, 2005.
Chris McKay of NASA's Ames Research Centre in Moffet Field, Cal...
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SETI
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Using cellphones on aeroplanes could drown out faint radio signals from space, astronomers are warning.
They told a US agency considering lifting in-flight restrictions on cellphones that special devices should be installed on planes to limit damage to research if the regulations change.
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Evolution of the atmosphere
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The President of the Mineralogical Society of America, Douglas Rumble, III, of the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, describes new techniques, used on minerals, to reveal the steps that led to evolution of the atmosphere on Earth.
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Stanley Miller, a chemist who showed that, given the right conditions, simple organic compounds can form life, died this week at the age of 77 following a series of strokes. Read more
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Extinction
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Methanogenic Archaea
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Max Planck researchers uncover the survival strategy of microorganisms responsible for the world-wide emission of methane from rice paddies
About 10 to 25 percent of the world's methane emissions come from flooded rice paddies. Methane is a greenhouse gas produced by various groups of micr...
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Scientists studying hydrothermal vents, those underwater geysers that are home to bizarre geological structures and unique marine species, have discovered something all too familiar: pollution.
A University of Florida geologist is among a team of geologists that is the first to observe “...
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Toyonian mass extinction event
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Half-a-billion years ago, as an explosion of life was starting to produce diverse new forms, the Antrim Plateau Volcanics of northern Australia began spewing massive amounts of lava.
Before it was over, lava floods had buried almost a fifth of Australia's area today.
The newly identified K...
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Cave extremeophiles
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Cave extremeophiles (microbes that live in very difficult environments) have been the object of Hazel Bartons research for a long time. Barton, a professor of microbiology at Northern Kentucky University has visited more than 1000 caves in the United States, Britain, Greenland, Mexico, Belize...
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Tough Enough for Mars, but Deinococcus is from Earth Results of a recent study titled Deinococcus geothermalis: The Pool of Extreme Radiation Resistance Genes Shrinks, will be published in the Sept. 26 edition of PLoS ONE. Bacteria of the genus Deinococcus are extremely resistant to ionising ra...
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Venus Life
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Life on Venus could be blown to Earth by powerful winds, scientists claim. Previous research has considered the possibility of micro organisms existing in Venus's atmosphere despite extreme temperatures on its surface. But two scientists at the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology say microbes fro...
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A classic experiment proving amino acids are created when inorganic molecules are exposed to electricity isn't the whole story, it turns out. The 1953 Miller-Urey Synthesis had two sibling studies, neither of which was published. Vials containing the products from those experiments were recen...
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DNA
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Small stretches of seemingly useless DNA harbour a big secret, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. There's one problem: We don't know what it is. Although individual laboratory animals appear to live happily when these genetic ciphers are deleted, these snippets have...
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The Cyborg Astrobiologist: Scouting Red Beds for Uncommon Features with Geological Significance.
Authors: Patrick C. McGuire, Enrique Diaz-Martinez, Jens Ormo, Javier Gomez-Elvira, Jose A. Rodriguez-Manfredi, Eduardo Sebastian-Martinez, Helge Ritter, Robert H...
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Astrobiologists have often pondered "life as we do not know it" in the context of extraterrestrial life, says Paul Davies, an internationally acclaimed theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Arizona State University. "But," he asks, "has there been a blind spot t...
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Biosphere
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Roughly a billion years from now, the ever-increasing radiation from the sun will have heated Earth into inhabitability; the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that serves as food for plant life will disappear, pulled out by the weathering of rocks; the oceans will evaporate; and all living things w...
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Ecosystems
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Inventories of living and dead organisms could serve as a relatively fast, simple and inexpensive preliminary means of assessing human impact on ecosystems. The University of Chicagos Susan Kidwell explains how measuring the degree of live-dead mismatch could be used as an ecological tool in th...
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Prehistoric Animals
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A prehistoric giraffe discovered in eastern Macedonia earlier this summer is the first to be found in Europe, according to palaeontologists. The ancient animal was among several sets of fossil remains dating five to ten million years ago. Located outside the village of Stamer, near Delcovo, the f...
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Lithopanspermia
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Lithopanspermia in Star Forming Clusters
Authors: Fred C. Adams, David N. Spergel
This paper considers the lithopanspermia hypothesis in star forming groups and clusters, where the chances of biological material spreading from one solar system to another is greatly enh...
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LUCA
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The last universal ancestor (LUA), also called the last universal common ancestor (LUCA), or the cenancestor, is the most recent organism from which all organisms now living on Earth descend. Read more
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Expose-E experiment unit
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Space is a hostile environment for living things, but small organisms on the Expose-E experiment unit outside Europes Columbus ISS laboratory module have resisted the solar UV radiation, cosmic rays, vacuum and varying temperatures for 18 months. A certain lichen, Xanthoria elegans, seems to b...
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Deep Life
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Half of Earth's life may lie below While astronomers scour the skies for signs of life in outer space, biologists are exploring an enormous living world buried below the surface of the Earth. Scientists estimate that nearly half the living material on our planet is hidden in or beneath the ocean or in...
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Extremophile
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Title: Detection of Endolithes Using Infrared Spectroscopy Authors: S. Dumas, Y. Dutil, G. Joncas On Earth, the Dry Valleys of Antarctica provide the closest martian-like environment for the study of extremophiles. Colonies of bacteries are protected from the freezing temperatures, the drou...
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Isovaline
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Isovaline is a rare amino acid that was found in the Murchison meteorite. It is an isomer of the biologically important amino acid L-valine. It may have analgesic properties. Read more
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Chirality
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A simple and reliable method for converting one of the simplest chemical entities into one of the most difficult-to-make molecular building blocks of life, with complete control over its shape, is reported by scientists at the University of Bristol in this weeks Nature. It will have major implica...
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Synthia
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J. Craig Venter Institute Seeks Monopoly Patents on the World's First-Ever Human-Made Life Form ETC Group Will Challenge Patents on "Synthia" - Original Syn Organism Created in Laboratory Ten years after Dolly the cloned sheep made her stunning debut, the J. Craig Venter Institute is...
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Marine life
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Using high-tech robotic cameras, a team of scientists is getting a rare first glimpse of marine life in the North Atlantic that could shed light on the ocean's ecosystem and climate to as far back as 1,000 years. Images of tulip-shaped sponges, brightly coloured corals, delicate pink stars and feat...
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Flinders Ranges rocks contain a rare frozen record of extreme climate change, leading researchers say. Dr Alan Collins from Adelaide University's school of Earth and Environmental Sciences, said the rocks provided a unique glimpse of weather patterns [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed...
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Earth biosignature
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VLT Rediscovers Life on Earth By observing the Moon using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have found evidence of life in the Universe - on Earth. Finding life on our home planet may sound like a trivial observation, but the novel approach of an international team may lead to future discoveri...
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