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Searching For Life On Icy Worlds Davos, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 29, 2009 
Ice is a common feature of many of the worlds in the solar system with the potential to support life. Working out how to detect the signature of life - past or present - in ice will be a key part of solar system exploration. Project SLIce - Signatures of Life in Ice - is designed to find out both what signs of life might survive in ice, and how to detect it in a scientifically robust way. ... read moreCoaxing Cold Colonies Back To Life 
University Park PA (SPX) Jun 29, 2009A novel bacterium that has been trapped more than three kilometres under glacial ice in Greenland for over 120 000 years, may hold clues as to what life forms might exist on other planets. Jennifer Loveland-Curtze and a team of scientists from Pennsylvania State University report finding the novel microbe, which they have called Herminiimonas glaciei, in the current issue of the ... more
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Stellar Shrapnel Cuts Life Short
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2009When stars go pop, a murderous torrent of energy is released. Life on Earth may have been partly extinguished by just such a violent outburst, but there's little hard evidence yet to justify such a claim. A new study plans to fill in the forensic details. "We are trying to get a better estimate of how dangerous a particular event will be," says Brian Thomas of Washburn University in Topeka ... more Planets With Life Linger Longer 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 22, 2009Roughly 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 will disappear. Or maybe not quite so soon, say researchers from the California Institute of ... more Tiny Frozen Microbe May Hold Clues To Extraterrestrial Life
London, UK (SPX) Jun 16, 2009A novel bacterium that has been trapped more than three kilometres under glacial ice in Greenland for over 120 000 years, may hold clues as to what life forms might exist on other planets. Dr Jennifer Loveland-Curtze and a team of scientists from Pennsylvania State University report finding the novel microbe, which they have called Herminiimonas glaciei, in the current issue of the ... more Doing The Math On Life 
Manhattan KS (SPX) Jun 15, 2009How did we get here and where are we headed? These are some of life's biggest questions. To get the answers, one Kansas State University professor is doing the math. Louis Crane, K-State professor of mathematics, is studying new theories about why the universe is the way it is. He has a grant from the Foundational Questions Institute to study new approaches to the quantum theory of gravity ... more |
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The Search For Life In The Universe
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 02, 2009Four hundred years ago, the Italian scientist Galileo revolutionized the science of astronomy by inventing the first telescope. People began to consider the possibility of discovering other worlds like Earth - fantastic worlds inhabited by weird and wonderful civilizations. As technology continued to improve our telescopic vision, we sadly learned that the other planets in our solar system ... more Looking For The Light Of Life 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 29, 2009Although Captain Kirk and crew could zip over to a planet at warp speed and teleport down to the surface to check if it was inhabited, current-day scientists will generally have to search for life from a distance. New research gives This handedness, or homochirality, is characteristic of life on Earth. The molecules that make proteins and DNA all have either a left-handed or right-handed ... more Ten Years Later Still Not Even A Squeak From ET 
Berkeley CA (SPX) May 20, 2009The world's largest and longest-running volunteer computing project, SETI@home, celebrates its tenth anniversary this month with 140,000 participants and 235,000 computers powering the search for intelligent signals from space. No extraterrestrials have been found yet. But the project will hold a day-long symposium at the University of California, Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory on M ... more Life's Cometary Payload 
Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) May 18, 2009Comets have always fascinated us. A mysterious appearance could symbolize God's displeasure or mean a sure failure in battle, at least for one side. Now Tel Aviv University justifies our fascination - comets might have provided the elements for the emergence of life on our planet. While investigating the chemical make-up of comets, Professor Akiva Bar-Nun of the Department of Geophysics an ... more |
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