If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that somehow life finds a way to survive in the strangest and harshest places.
Plants & Animals
Feb 9, 2012
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Since 2006, when NASA's Stardust spacecraft delivered its aerogel and aluminum foil dust collectors to Earth, a team of scientists has combed through the collectors in search of rare, microscopic particles of interstellar ...
Space Exploration
Aug 14, 2014
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The idea that there is life on other worlds is humbling and exciting, and finding life on another world would change everything. This has been a driving force for scientists for decades. We find life wherever we find water ...
Space Exploration
Jul 31, 2013
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Tiny, fully biocompatible electronic devices that are able to dissolve harmlessly into their surroundings after functioning for a precise amount of time have been created by a research team led by biomedical engineers at ...
Engineering
Sep 27, 2012
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For millions of years after the Big Bang, there were no stars, or even galaxies to contain stars. During these "Cosmic Dark Ages," neutral hydrogen gas dominated the universe. When clouds of primordial hydrogen gas started ...
Astronomy
Sep 2, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Scientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but new research from a team of scientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 4, 2013
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Two Washington State University researchers say environmental restrictions have become unnecessarily restrictive and expensive—on Mars.
Space Exploration
Jun 27, 2013
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft has returned the first close-up image after beginning its orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta. On Friday, July 15, Dawn became the first probe to enter orbit around an object in the ...
Space Exploration
Jul 19, 2011
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At January's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, there was a lot of chatter around Ultrabooks - thin, lightweight laptop notebooks designed to be more portable than the usual laptop and more powerful than ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 12, 2012
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Highlighting an important but unexplored area of evolution, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found evidence that, over hundreds of millions of years, an essential protein has evolved chiefly by changing ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 29, 2013
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