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New evidence that comets deposited building blocks of life on primordial Earth

New research reported today at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) provides further support for the idea that comets bombarding Earth billions of years ago carrie ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Video: Revisiting 1950s experiments for signs of life's origin

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the 1950s, biochemist Stanley Miller performed a series of experiments to demonstrate that organic compounds could be created under conditions mimicking the primordial Earth.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Shooting Meteorites in a Barrel

High-impact lab experiments simulate whether the building blocks of life could have survived the rough arrival on Earth via meteorite impact.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Earth's atmosphere came from outer space, find scientists

(PhysOrg.com) -- The gases which formed the Earth's atmosphere - and probably its oceans - did not come from inside the Earth but from outer space, according to a study by University of Manchester and University ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (30) | comments 12




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Baby galaxies grew up quickly

Baby galaxies from the young Universe more than 12 billion years ago evolved faster than previously thought, shows new research from the Niels Bohr Institute. This means that already in the early history of ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 67 | with audio podcast

Free-floating planets in the Milky Way outnumber stars by factors of thousands

A few hundred thousand billion free-floating life-bearing Earth-sized planets may exist in the space between stars in the Milky Way. So argues an international team of scientists led by Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, Director ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (17) | comments 53

Is a new form of life really so alien?

The idea of discovering a new form of life has not only excited astronomers and astrobiologists for decades, but also the wider public. The notion that we are the only example of a successful life form in the galaxy has, ...

Biology / Other

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (12) | comments 34 | with audio podcast

Splatters of molten rock signal period of intense asteroid impacts on Earth

New research reveals that the Archean era — a formative time for early life from 3.8 billion years ago to 2.5 billion years ago — experienced far more major asteroid impacts than had been previously ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers create computer simulations of primordial black holes striking the Earth

(PhysOrg.com) -- Black holes have captured the imagination of scientists and amateur enthusiasts for years. The idea of some dark entity out there in the far reaches of space sucking up anything and everything ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 37 | with audio podcast report

The origin of the moon's craters

(PhysOrg.com) -- Moon's craters, together with samples of the surface returned during the Apollo program, tell the story of impacts from two different populations of small bodies. The first rocky collection ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A new theory on the formation of the oldest continents

German geologists from the Universities of Bonn and Cologne have demonstrated new scientific results in the April issue of the scholarly journal Geology, which provide a new theory on the earliest phase of continental format ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Stars with dusty disks should harbor Earth-like worlds

Stars with disks of debris around them might be good targets to search for Earth-like planets, researchers say.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The Earth's new water budget

Investigating the history of water on Earth is critical to understanding the planet's climate. One central question is whether Earth has always had the same amount of water on and surrounding it, the same ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Ultraviolet protection molecule in plants yields its secrets

Lying around in the sun all day is hazardous not just for humans but also for plants, which have no means of escape. Ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun can damage proteins and DNA inside cells, leading ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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