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NAI Research Highlights
Organics Probably Formed Easily in Early Solar System
/ April 3Reading the Rocks
/ March 21Early Earth Air Quality: Code Orange
/ March 19Meteorites Reveal Another Way to Make Life's Components
/ March 19New Study Sheds Light on Early Earth's Atmosphere
/ March 7RNA Origins in Sheets of Clay
/ February 20Water Earths in the Near-Infrared
/ February 16Exposing Organics on the ISS
/ February 10An Alternative Path for the Evolution of Nitrogen Fixation
/ February 8Astrobiologists among the 2012 Geochemical Fellows
/ January 26Oxygen's Stops and Starts
/ December 8Early Life More Complex than Previously Thought
/ December 6Earth's Early Atmosphere: An Update
/ December 2Fossil Record, Meet Molecular Clock
/ December 1Timeline of a Mass Extinction
/ November 18Sweet Spots for Galactic Organics
/ November 18New Technique Can Reveal Mars' Watery Past
/ November 1Follow the Uranium
/ October 17Molecular Fossil Records
/ September 19Jupiter's "Grand Tack" Reshaped the Solar System
/ August 19NASA Research Shows DNA Building Blocks Can Be Made in Space
/ August 9The Hunt for Other Earths Begins at Home
/ June 23Asteroid Served Up "Custom Orders" of Life's Ingredients
/ June 13Biomineralization: Linking Biology and Geochemistry
/ May 10Carbon Monoxide Bacteria and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere
/ April 27Unexpected Exoskeleton Remnants
/ February 8More Asteroids Could Have Made Life's Ingredients
/ January 19Species Loss Tied to Mass Extinctions
/ January 18Final Stages of Earth, Moon, Mars Formation
/ January 11Building Blocks of Life Created in "Impossible" Place
/ December 16Get Your Biology Textbook...and an Eraser!
/ December 2Evidence of Ancient Impact Preserved in Modern Sand
/ November 22Phosphorus and the Global Breath of Fresh Air
/ November 12Deepest Hydrothermal Vents on Earth
/ October 6Shifts in Ocean Oxygenation Tied to Changes in Animal Evolution
/ October 5Found: An Exoplanet Orbiting in the Habitable Zone of its Star
/ September 29Montana's First Fellow of the American Chemical Society
/ September 2Oxygenation in Ancient Ocean Margins Precedes Atmospheric Rise
/ August 23Earth-Like Planets May Be Shielded From Solar Scorching
/ July 16Water Content on the Moon Underestimated
/ June 14Most Comets Not From This Solar System
/ June 11Geochemical Constraints on Biological Evolution
/ June 9Did Phosphorous Trigger Blue Skies?
/ May 10Microbial Iron Reduction in BIF's?
/ April 27Rock of Ages - A Younger ALH84001
/ April 16Microbes in Space, A Review
/ March 22Isotopic Evidence of Early Life in Western Australia
/ March 22The Origin of Titan's Methane
/ February 17Age of the Solar System Needs to Be Recalculated
/ January 5Variety Is the Splice of Life
/ December 18Salt Ponds Could Be Clue to Life on Mars
/ December 17First Super-Earths Discovered Around Sun-like Stars
/ December 14Astrobiologists Reproduce RNA Component in Laboratory
/ November 6Oxygen Production in Earth's Early Oceans Predates the Great Oxidation Event
/ November 4'Ultra-Primitive' Particles Found in Comet Dust
/ November 2Ribosomes as Ancient Molecular Fossils
/ October 28NAI Research Reveals Major Insight into Evolution of Life on Earth
/ August 19NASA Researchers Make First Discovery of Life's Building Block in Comet
/ August 17Marine Methane Oxidation Without Sulfur
/ July 9Nickel: The New Biomarker
/ June 23Increasing the Lifespan of Life on Earth
/ June 19A New Way to Keep Clean
/ June 9Microbial Habitability During the Late Heavy Bombardment
/ May 20Evidence for the Great Oxidation Event Challenged
/ April 17Hydrogenase Active Sites and the Origin of Life
/ April 6Fragments of Asteroid Impact are Collected and Analyzed
/ April 2New Evidence for an Earlier Origin of Oxygenic Photosynthesis
/ March 17A Clue to the Molecular "Handedness" of Life on Earth
/ March 17Evolution of the Modern Nitrogen Cycle
/ February 23Cycling Nitrogen
/ February 22A Natural Iron Fertilization Mechanism from the Deep Sea
/ February 10The Science of NAI - Overview Presentations Available as Podcasts
/ February 6Oldest Evidence for Animals in the Fossil Record
/ February 4Great Oxidation Event Got Earlier Start
/ January 29Martian Methane Reveals the Red Planet is not a Dead Planet
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