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Terrestrial Origin Mooted for More Microbes

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 - 17:48:20 - Ehud Rattner

The majority of bacteria may have evolved on land from an early common ancestor, according to an analysis by two US scientists. The relationships...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Underwater Neutrino Telescope Constructed

Saturday, July 5th, 2008 - 16:00:21 - Anuradha Menon

Construction of the first underwater neutrino telescope has just been completed. Since early June, the last two detection lines of Antares have been...

Saturn's Secondary Aurora: More Information

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 - 08:24:14 - Ehud Rattner

A UK team of researchers have discovered a secondary aurora sparkling on Saturn and also started to unravel the mechanisms that drive the process...

Unexpected Origin of an Early Eskimo

Saturday, May 31st, 2008 - 13:12:39 - Ehud Rattner

An early wave of migration into the New World and the Arctic has been identified by sequencing a genome from a frozen hair excavated in Greenland...

Origin Project
Friday, November 16th, 2007 - Iddo Genuth
Origin Project – The origin project began in 1999 with a generous grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF)...