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Russian scientists get first ice samples from Antarctic Lake Vostok
Jan 16, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
Russian scientists have obtained first ice samples from Lake Vostok, a huge body of liquid water buried under the Antarctic ice. The scientists presume that the...
Biologists unlock black box to underground world
Jan 07, 2013 (SPX)
A BYU biologist is part of a team of researchers that has unlocked the "black box" to the underground world home to billions of microscopic creatures. That firs...
ASI, ISRO hold planetary science workshop
Jan 02, 2013 (IBNS)
The Astronautical Society of India (ASI) in association with Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) organized a planetary science workshop on Dec 27 and 28, ...
Cave dwelling nettle discovered in China
Jan 01, 2013 (SPX)
South West China, Myanmar and Northern Vietnam contain one of the oldest exposed outcrops of limestone in the world. Within this area are thousands of caves and...
The toughest animal on Earth...and in space!
Jan 01, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
An animal that can live without water, resist extreme temperatures and strong radiation, and has survived the vacuum of space; that is a basic description of a ...
Swansong Biospheres: The last refuges for life on the far-future Earth
Dec 21, 2012 (SPX)
Billions of years from now, life on Earth will be extinguished when the dying Sun scorches the surface of our planet. New research has aimed to determine what t...
Origin of life emerged from cell membrane bioenergetics
Dec 21, 2012 (SPX)
A coherent pathway which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living c...
ASU researchers propose new way to look at the dawn of life
Dec 14, 2012 (SPX)
One of the great mysteries of life is how it began. What physical process transformed a nonliving mix of chemicals into something as complex as a living cell? F...
Mining ancient ores for clues to early life
Dec 12, 2012 (SPX)
An analysis of sulfide ore deposits from one of the world's richest base-metal mines confirms that oxygen levels were extremely low on Earth 2.7 billion years a...
Search for life extends to the stars
Dec 10, 2012 (UPI)
Nighttime flights on an airborne observatory to search newly born stars could turn up evidence of the presence of precursors to life, U.S. astrobiologists say. ...
Model sheds light on the chemistry that sparked the origin of life
Nov 27, 2012 (SPX)
The question of how life began on a molecular level has been a longstanding problem in science. However, recent mathematical research sheds light on a possible ...
Astronauts bring back new life
Nov 27, 2012 (ESA)
It is not every day that astronauts can claim to return to Earth with a new species of life. But when the astronauts on ESA's CAVES underground training course ...
Curious About Life: Interview with Roger Summons
Nov 27, 2012 (SPX)
The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover has 10 science instruments, and each will be used in the coming weeks and months to help characterize the environmen...
Life on Mars: NASA says 'hold on a minute!'
Nov 25, 2012 (UPI)
When a NASA official said last week data from an instrument on the Mars Curiosity rover suggested something "for the history books," many people thought an anno...
Can life emerge on planets around cooling stars?
Nov 23, 2012 (SPX)
Astronomers find planets in strange places and wonder if they might support life. One such place would be in orbit around a white or brown dwarf. While neither ...
Lifting The Ceiling On Terran Lifeforms
Nov 20, 2012 (SPX)
The parachuting thrill-seeker Felix Baumgartner is not the only living thing to plunge through the jet stream. Recent studies have confirmed that microbes exist...
NASA Innovator of Year Hunts for Extraterrestrial Amino Acids
Nov 20, 2012 (SPX)
The hunt for the organic molecules that create proteins and enzymes critical for life here on Earth has largely happened in sophisticated terrestrial laboratori...
SETI Institute Major Donation From Qualcomm Chief Scientist Franklin Antonio
Nov 18, 2012 (SPX)
SETI Institute has received a donation of $3.5 million from Franklin Antonio, Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Qualcomm. The money will be used to more than do...
Strange diet for methane consuming microorganisms
Nov 07, 2012 (SPX)
Methane is formed under the absence of oxygen by natural biological and physical processes, e.g. in the sea floor. It is a much more powerful greenhouse gas tha...
Asteroid Belts at Just the Right Place are Friendly to Life
Nov 02, 2012 (JPL)
Solar systems with life-bearing planets may be rare if they are dependent on the presence of asteroid belts of just the right mass, according to a study by Rebe...
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