Researchers turn to trees to determine if multicellular life on exoplanets exist
Is there life outside our planet?
Astronomy
Oct 2, 2020
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International Journal of Astrobiology
Scientists revise the Rio Scale for reported alien encounters
A team of international researchers, led by scientists from the University of St Andrews and the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, redefines alien detection scale.
Space Exploration
Jul 24, 2018
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Scientists identify key factors that help microbes thrive in harsh environments
Three new studies by University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) scientists have identified key factors that help microbes survive in harsh environments.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 27, 2017
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Could solar storms that cause the northern lights cause whale strandings?
A series of sperm whale strandings saw 29 of the animals beached across the North Sea in early 2016. As these whales are not normally found in the North Sea, the strandings were a bit of a mystery. But a study is now proposing ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 6, 2017
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The implications of cosmic silence
The universe is incomprehensibly vast, with billions of other planets circling billions of other stars. The potential for intelligent life to exist somewhere out there should be enormous.
Astronomy
Aug 11, 2017
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More to life than the habitable zone
Two separate teams of scientists have identified major challenges for the development of life in what has recently become one of the most famous exoplanet systems, TRAPPIST-1.
Astronomy
Jul 13, 2017
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Hardy bacteria thrive under hot desert rocks
Beneath the rocks scarring California's Mojave Desert are colonies of cyanobacteria, tiny creatures thought to be some of the first on Earth to convert light from the Sun into energy in the process known as photosynthesis. ...
Space Exploration
Jun 1, 2015
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Microbes can survive in meteorites if shielded from UV radiation, study says
Outer space might be the toughest environment for life, but some hearty microbes have been able to survive in it for surprising amounts of time. How long they can do so and why they are able to withstand the difficulties ...
Space Exploration
May 29, 2015
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Hot super-Earths help track water-rich atmospheres
As the discovery of planets beyond the Solar System becomes more common, scientists have begun the in-depth study of the atmospheres of these bodies.
Astronomy
Nov 18, 2014
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Lichens can survive space conditions for extended periods
A new study shows that a large percentage of hardy lichens exposed to space conditions for one and a half years remain viable after returning to Earth. The lichen Xanthoria elegans was part of the lichen and fungi experiment ...
Space Exploration
Oct 22, 2014
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