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Loki’s Castle is a hydrothermal vent field along the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge discovered by researchers from the Centre for Geobiology in Norway.
A disputed origin for EukaryotesMarch 14, 2016
Dr. Betül Kacar of Harvard University discusses the field of paleogenomics.
Betül Kacar on PaleogenomicsMarch 14, 2016
Photo of mats from Lake Joyce.
Microbial Mats Offer Clues To Life on Early EarthMarch 13, 2016
The simple and traditional view: The “Goldilocks” zone around a star is where a planet is neither too hot nor too cold to support liquid water. (Petigura/UC Berkeley, Howard/UH-Manoa, Marcy/UC Berkeley)
The Habitable Zone Gets Poked, Tweaked and Stretched to the LimitsMarch 10, 2016
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In Memory of James FerrisMarch 10, 2016
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To protect and preserve ET life? That is the questionMarch 9, 2016
Eerie blue light suffuses the otherworldly bottom of Lake Untersee, Antarctica, where scientists have found structures (purple lumps) built by layer upon layer of growing microbes.
Microbial Mats Adapting to the ColdMarch 8, 2016
Noah Planavsky (left) and Timothy Lyons are seen here examining a rock sample in the lab. Photo credit: UCR Strategic Communications.
Noah Planavsky Selected as a 2016 Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in Ocean SciencesMarch 7, 2016
Alkaline hydrothermal vents may have played a role in the origin of life.
Life’s Building Blocks Form In Replicated Deep Sea VentsMarch 6, 2016
BSE-SEM images of fossils in sandstone from Michigan. At Left: internal tube in the carbonaceous material (black arrow). At right: a branching external tube in the carbonaceous material (black arrow), and the branching point (white arrow).
Hydroids or Hemichordates?March 4, 2016
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NASA Astrobiology Debates: Eastern Championship Live WebcastMarch 3, 2016
Aomawa Shields, a National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow and a UC President’s Postdoctoral Program Fellow in the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Origins Project Announces Postdoctoral Lectureship AwardMarch 2, 2016
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