Items tagged with Life

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How to Spot Moons Far, Far Away Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 - 12:07:59 - Ehud Rattner We might soon get our first glimpse of a moon orbiting a planet in another solar system. Little effort has so far been made to find such an... read more

Carbonate Deposits Found on Mars Monday, December 22nd, 2008 - 12:01:03 - Ehud Rattner After a search that has gone on for decades, scientists have announced the discovery of substantial deposits of carbonate rocks on Mars. Although the... read more

Sweet Molecule Could Lead Us To Alien Life Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 - 14:37:38 - Anuradha Menon Scientists have detected an organic sugar molecule that is directly linked to the origin of life, in a region of our galaxy where habitable planets... read more

Carbon Discovered on Distant Planet Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 - 10:00:27 - Ehud Rattner Carbon dioxide, one of the telltale signs that a planet may be able to support life, has been spotted in the atmosphere of a gas giant orbiting a... read more

Moon Craters May Hold Traces of Early Life Thursday, November 6th, 2008 - 12:22:28 - Iddo Genuth ce deposits hidden in the Moon's darkest craters might contain traces of early life from meteorites blasted off the Earth by asteroids billions of... read more

The Building Blocks of Life Friday, October 31st, 2008 - 12:27:41 - Anuradha Menon Ever wonder where all that food your teenager devoured was going? Not only does the food go into the teen's daily activities--running, doing... read more

Origin of Photosynthesis Doubted Friday, October 24th, 2008 - 10:02:59 - Ehud Rattner New research contradicts key evidence that Sun-fuelled life arose 2.7 billion years ago. A fresh analysis of ancient rocks from the Australian... read more

Did Volcanoes Spark Life on Earth? Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 - 12:02:50 - Ehud Rattner A once-discarded idea about how life started on our planet has been given a new life of its own, thanks to a serendipitous find. Geochemists Jim... read more

Monster Tag Team Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 - 09:59:59 - Ehud Rattner Astronomers taking a second look at a distant galaxy have found it is actually a pair of colliding galaxies, each harboring a supermassive black hole... read more

Algorithm to Investigate Origins of Life Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 - 14:02:48 - Anuradha Menon Scientists at Penn State have developed a new computational method that they say will help them to understand how life began on Earth. The team’s... read more

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