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Could Ionized Gas Do A Better Job of Sterilizing Spacecraft
Mar 03, 2015 (SPX)
Earth's microbes are a hardy bunch. They can survive in extreme environments, such as inside hot springs at the bottom of the ocean. Some have even remained ali...
How Would The World Change If We Found Extraterrestrial Life
Mar 03, 2015 (SPX)
In 1938, Orson Welles narrated a radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds" as a series of simulated radio bulletins of what was happening in real time as Martians ...
Tributes pour in for Leonard Nimoy, aka Mr Spock
Feb 27, 2015 (AFP)
President Barack Obama joined Leonard Nimoy's co-stars from "Star Trek" to bid adieu to the actor who died Friday aged 83 after making his name as "Mr Spock." "...
Guiding our Search for Life on Other Earths
Feb 26, 2015 (SPX)
A telescope will soon allow astronomers to probe the atmosphere of Earthlike exoplanets for signs of life. To prepare, Lisa Kaltenegger and her team are modelin...
Life Might Thrive a Dozen Miles Beneath Earth's Surface
Feb 26, 2015 (SPX)
Life teems all over our planet's exterior and even down into the lightless oceanic depths. But just how far underground might life be able to hack it? New resea...
Life on other planets: Alternative chemistries of life
Feb 18, 2015 (SPX)
Ideas about directing evolution of life forms on Earth and finding life on other planets are rapidly morphing from science-fiction fantasy into mainstream scien...
New data that fundamental physics constants underlie life-enabling universe
Jan 19, 2015 (SPX)
For nearly half a century, theoretical physicists have made a series of discoveries that certain constants in fundamental physics seem extraordinarily fine-tune...
Catching ET on the move
Dec 30, 2014 (SPX)
Looking for life on other planets is not straightforward. It usually relies on chemical detection, which might be limited or even completely irrelevant to alien...
Tiny 'life detector' could sense alien movement: study
Dec 29, 2014 (AFP)
European researchers said Monday they have devised the first tiny motion detector that could help find microscopic life forms on distant planets. Until now, sci...
Barren Deserts Can Host Complex Ecosystems in Their Soils
Dec 28, 2014 (SPX)
"Biological soil crusts" don't look like much. In fact, people often trample right over these dark, or green-tinted, sometimes raised patches in the desert soil...
Scientists create human primordial cells in the lab
Dec 25, 2014 (UPI)
The first time in history, researchers have successfully used human embryonic stem cells to create primordial germ cells, cells that divide and mature into egg ...
Young Red Dwarf Stars could Host Habitable Worlds
Dec 22, 2014 (SPX)
Red dwarf stars, or M dwarfs, have recently been hailed as the best places to discover alien life. They are by far the most common stars in our galaxy, making u...
Oil-dwelling bacteria are social creatures in Earth's deep biosphere
Dec 16, 2014 (SPX)
Oil reservoirs are scattered deep inside the Earth like far-flung islands in the ocean, so their inhabitants might be expected to be very different, but a new s...
How Did Life Become Complex, And Could It Happen Beyond Earth?
Dec 12, 2014 (SPX)
When astrobiologists contemplate life on nearby planets or moons, they often suggest such life would be simple. Instead of there being some kind of multicellula...
Preparing for Alien Life
Dec 01, 2014 (SPX)
At a recent event sponsored by NASA and the Library of Congress, a group of scientists and scholars explored how we might prepare for the inevitable discovery o...
How Can We Search For Life On Icy Moons Such As Europa?
Nov 26, 2014 (SPX)
Our solar system is host to a wealth of icy worlds that may have water beneath the surface. The Cassini spacecraft recently uncovered evidence of a possible oce...
Rapidly Freezing Saltwater Could Provide Spark of Life on Icy Worlds
Nov 26, 2014 (SPX)
A research team has confirmed the existence of a process that causes the electrolysis of water, and which has the potential to drive the production of life in "...
Extreme Shrimp May Hold Clues to Alien Life
Nov 25, 2014 (JPL)
At one of the world's deepest undersea hydrothermal vents, tiny shrimp are piled on top of each other, layer upon layer, crawling on rock chimneys that spew hot...
UW Team's Plants Return To Earth After Growing In Space
Nov 11, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at Simon Gilroy's lab in the Department of Botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison expect to greet a truck this afternoon that is carrying sma...
Sustainability, astrobiology illuminate future of life in universe, civilization on Earth
Nov 10, 2014 (SPX)
Human-caused climate change, ocean acidification and species extinctions may eventually threaten the collapse of civilization, according to some scientists, whi...
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