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RNA capable of catalyzing electron transfer on early earth with iron's help
May 23, 2013 (SPX)
A new study shows how complex biochemical transformations may have been possible under conditions that existed when life began on the early Earth. The study sho...
Intelligent alien life will be discovered in next 20 years, scientists say
May 22, 2013 (UPI)
The news out of Washington yesterday: expect aliens in 20 years. Leading alien experts arrived on Capitol Hill on Tuesday donning not tin foil hats but suits an...
World's largest undersea methane seep harbors variety of life
May 22, 2013 (UPI)
U.S. researchers say they've discovered what may be the world's largest methane seep on the ocean floor, where life thrives under extreme conditions. A marine r...
Billion-year-old water could hold clues to life on Earth and Mars
May 20, 2013 (SPX)
A UK-Canadian team of scientists has discovered ancient pockets of water, which have been isolated deep underground for billions of years and contain abundant c...
How the Density of Exoplanets' Atmospheres Weighs on the Odds for Alien Life
May 03, 2013 (SPX)
At this early stage in the search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system and beyond, the emphasis is on liquid water. Where it can exist on a planet's or...
Flexible partnership allows lichens to occur in different habitats
Apr 26, 2013 (SPX)
Lichens are symbiotic organisms consisting of a fungal partner and one or several algal partners. The association is so close that scientists until 1867 were no...
Has Kepler Found Ideal SETI-Target Planets
Apr 25, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered a new planetary system that is home to five small planets around a slightly smaller star than our Sun. Two of them are supe...
Coelacanth genome surfaces
Apr 19, 2013 (SPX)
An international team of researchers has decoded the genome of a creature whose evolutionary history is both enigmatic and illuminating: the African coelacanth....
B3: the vitamin from outer space
Apr 18, 2013 (UPI)
Vitamin B3, also called nicotinic acid or niacin, is the precursor to nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) -- vital to metabolism and a key to the developmen...
Study: Lack of magnetic field could render many exoplanets lifeless
Apr 17, 2013 (UPI)
Some Earth-like exoplanets that are seemingly habitable may be missing magnetic shielding, exposing them to damaging radiation, researchers in Colombia say. To ...
Power behind primordial soup discovered
Apr 05, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Leeds may have solved a key puzzle about how objects from space could have kindled life on Earth. While it is generally accepte...
University of Tennessee professor discovers how microbes survive at bare minimum
Mar 29, 2013 (SPX)
Beneath the ocean floor is a desolate place with no oxygen and sunlight. Yet microbes have thrived in this environment for millions of years. Scientists have pu...
Where Life Could Thrive: Interview With John Grotzinger
Mar 25, 2013 (SPX)
On Tuesday March 13, NASA's Curiosity science team announced that the Martian rover had found the first confirmed site other than Earth where conditions were ri...
Highly effective communities of bacteria in the world's deepest oceanic trench
Mar 22, 2013 (SPX)
An international research team announces the first scientific results from one of the most inaccessible places on Earth: the bottom of the Mariana Trench locate...
Antarctic and Arctic Insects Use Different Genetic Mechanisms to Cope With Lack of Water
Mar 19, 2013 (SPX)
Although they live in similarly extreme ecosystems at opposite ends of the world, Antarctic insects appear to employ entirely different methods at the genetic l...
'Bizarre Bacteria' in Lake Vostok Study Likely a Contaminant
Mar 15, 2013 (SPX)
Last week, reports began to emerge that Russian scientists had discovered a previously unknown species of bacteria in samples of lake water from one of Antarcti...
Home toxic home
Mar 13, 2013 (SPX)
Most organisms would die in the volcanic sulfur pools of Yellowstone and Mount Etna. Robust simple algae call it home, and their secrets to survival could advan...
Dispute over Antarctic 'unidentified' life
Mar 11, 2013 (UPI)
Russian scientists still say an "unclassified" species of bacteria was found in water samples beneath Antarctic ice, although some colleagues are disputing it. ...
Russia admits no new life form found in Antarctic lake
Mar 09, 2013 (AFP)
Russian scientists on Saturday dismissed initial reports that they had found a wholly new type of bacteria in a mysterious subglacial lake in Antarctica. Sergei...
How to Thrive in Battery Acid and Among Toxic Metals
Mar 08, 2013 (SPX)
In the movie Alien, the title character is an extraterrestrial creature that can survive brutal heat and resist the effects of toxins. In real life, organisms w...
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