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...d for studying other planets in our solar system. This month, dozens of school kids in Atlanta will team with NASA's Global Hydrology and Climate Center to determine the extent of the changes. This Urban ...ASU Scientists Join NASA Astrobiology Institute
... robots and advanced sensors for exploring distant planets and moons. Though they come from diverse disc...ironments on Earth, together with the discovery of planets in other solarsystems and the evidence suggesting that water is present elsewhere in our own solar s...Feed A Microbe An Unearthly Dish And You Make Your Own Extraterrestrial
...ight it eat?" The search for life on Marsand other planets might eventually answer some of these questions, he said lastweek at an astrobiology workshop at the NASA Ames Research Center near SanFrancisco. Meanwhile, however, Ellington has decided to take a different approach.If he couldn't find an ex...Chemical Reaction Believed To Support Underground Microbes Is Now Unlikely
...e microbial ecosystems on Earth and possibly other planets wasfascinating and was accepted by most microbiologists," Lovley says. "Unfortunately, this concept can not be supported by the available data." From analyses of chemical and microbiological data, Lovley andcollaborators Robert Anderson, U. M...Scientist Finds Asteroid Fossil That May Have Caused Global Dinosaur Extinction
... is thought to be aleftover from the time when the planets first formed. Kyte notes that this particular asteroid moved out of the belt towardsEarth at about 40,000 miles per hour. The resulting impact is thought to havehad devastating consequences for the world's climate and could have led to thee...Large Gene Study Questions Cambrian Explosion
... cangive us clues for how to predict life on other planets and in other solarsystems," Hedges says. "We hope to be able to predict the kinds of lifeformsthat are likely to exist on other planets, based on those that existed duringEarth's history, just by measuring the chemical content of the planet'satmosph...Gold Finds Life, Energy, Controversy In Earth
...contacts might want to stop seeking life on other planets and inquire about life in them."...NYU Chemist Supports New Theory For Origin Of Life
...and the physics ofself-organizing systems whenever planets exist with the right constituents andconditions: a liquid or dense gas medium (not necessarily water), a suitableenergy source, and a system of matter capable of using the energy to organizeitself. He calls this hypothesis the Life Principle. Furth...Ice-covered antarctic lake may harbor unknown life
...volutionary explosion on earth and perhaps onother planets as well as deciphering the geologic history of Antarctica." NSF's Office of Polar Programs, through the U.S. Antarctic Program(USAP), coordinates all U.S. scientific research on the continent. NSF will senda delegation of U.S. scientists to ...Team of 200 scientists presents new research that reveals full 'tree of life' for plants
...sun is merely one star in auniverse full of stars, planets and other astral bodies shattered mankind'spreconceptions of space and led to the exploration of the cosmos. Similarly, theresearch team's findings could shatter some preconceptions about life here onEarth by proving that all the familiar biodiversit...Tracks in iron provide an insightful map of microbial world
... of years ago. Because iron is common on the moon, planets and other objects in space, thetechnique could be used to detect signs of past life beyond our own planet. Beard's group measured the isotopic composition of iron from two distinctsources: sedimentary rock and igneous rock. Sedimentary rock reflects ...DFG to set up 21 new collaborative research centres in 2000
...haracteristic traces of the creation of stars and planets can be particularly clearly observed. The collaborative research centre "The Development of Interstellar Matter: Terahertz Spectroscopy in Space and Laboratory" at Cologne University aims to open up terahertz-range spectroscopy both in the laboratory......tem, it may be tucked beneath the surface of other planets or their moons. By studying subsurface extremophiles on earth, researchers may learn where to look in their search for extraterrestrial life. As data accumulate, researchers hope to understand the processes that control life deep below the surface...Human stem cell research leads Science's top ten list of the best scientific advances in 1999
...mazes. A Plethora of New Planets: Reports of new planets in neighboring solar systems poured in throughout 1999, increasing the tally of known extra-solar planets to almost 30. And while previous sightings were indirect, this year, astronomers actually caught one......als, and we think there are only a small number of planets where that could happen," said Ward. The key, he said, is having near equilibrium in such things as temperature and water content over enormous time spans. Microbes have shown they can live in some of the harshest Earth environments imaginable, while...New research proves fullerene can be cosmic carbon carriers
...organic compounds were delivered to the surface of planets via asteroid and comet strikes, such as the large impact event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. "This finding opens new possibilities in looking at the problem of how planetary atmospheres evolved and maybe even how life evolved o...Reports of "weird life" almost stranger than fiction
...ed to sterilize space probes on their way to other planets and any samples brought back to earth, Daly said. Indeed, NASA has a "planetary protection officer"whose job is to work with agencies and the international scientific community on how best to safeguard this planet and others from cross-contamination,...Microbes on Earth may be key to identifying life on other planets
...nments, we can better interpret samples from other planets for signs of life." For example, various carbonate features -- including tiny, rod-shaped calcite crystals -- found in the Martian meteorite ALH84001 could have been formed by either organic or inorganic means. To help interpret whether such shapes ......of spatial and temporal aspects in the creation of planets and the development of planetary bodies. ENGINEERING SCIENCES In future, new materials with tailor-made properties will be required for a number of applications in mechanical engineering, nanotechnology, information processing and power engineering......crunching out temperature and weather maps for the planets with a resolution of 200 square kilometres, the worlds emerged from a 40-year lifespan. The doubled-CO2 world turned out just as you'd expect from other climate models. It warmed more in winter than summer at high latitudes, because there was less se...