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• 10 November, 2009 – This Week in Science

  
  This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast — Authority: 106
  Shocking Anti-Matter Finding, New Supernovaes, Faulkland Fox Family, A Phone Call, Altruistic Ants, Icy Antarctic Ecosystem, Life In The Lab, Prenatal Phonics, Synthetic Solutions, Feeding The Children, and Much More!
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• NASA Reproduces a Building Block of Life in Laboratory

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 590
  NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory. They discovered that an ice sample containing pyrimidine exposed to ultraviolet radiation under space-like conditions produces this essential ingredient of life.Pyrimidine is a ring-shaped ...
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• Government-sponsored SETI -- In The 1920s

  
  NASA Watch — Authority: 567
  Prepare for Contact , Letters of Note "Heres a 1924 telegram from then Chief of U.S. Naval Operations, Edward W. Eberle, instructing all Naval stations to monitor the airwaves for any unusual transmissions due to anticipated contact from Martians. August 22nd of that year was witness to the closest Mars opposition ...
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• Scientists debunk six 2012 end-of-the-world myths

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, November 7 (ANI): A team of scientists has debunked six myths about the world supposedly ending in 2012 according to an ancient Mayan prophecy.According to a report in National Geographic News, the first myth debunked by scientists is that the Maya calendar doesn’t end in 2012, as some have said, and the ...
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• Mars Explorers May Use AI to Become Cyborg Astrobiologists

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 663
  Ever heard of a Cyborg Astrobiologist? Probably not. But I bet youll want to be one after learning that future exploration of Mars (and other planets , for that matter) may employ the use of artificial intelligence integrated into spacesuits to enhance the ability of astronauts in taking scientific data while ...
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• How Habitable is the Earth?

  
  The Martian Chronicles — Authority: 120
  Charlie Stross has an interesting post on his blog that asks the question “How habitable is the Earth?” He goes on to conclude, through a great discussion of the evolution of our planet, that the fraction of time that the earth has been habitable to humans is a tiny sliver of the time the Earth [...]
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• Exoplanet Name Game

  
  REALscience — Authority: 464
  Most people don’t realize that since the advent of high-powered telescopes and a new method in planetary detection called radial velocity, over 400 new planets have been spotted orbiting distant stars. And it all began in 1995. Now with new planet discoveries growing interest in finding Earth-like planets, some ...
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• ‘Ultra-Primitive’ Particles Found in Comet Dust

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 590
  Washington, D.C.—Dust samples collected by high-flying aircraft in the upper atmosphere have yielded an unexpectedly rich trove of relicts from the ancient cosmos, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution.The stratospheric dust includes minute grains that likely formed inside stars that lived and died long ...
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• Are We Alone In The Universe?

  
  The Discovery Enterprise — Authority: 129
  Today’s documentary investigates one of the most controversial questions of all time… are we alone in the universe?This is not documentary that claims to have conclusive proof of extraterrestrial civilizations elsewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy, but rather a look at the serious science of the search for ...
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• Cyborg Astrobiologist Field Tested

  
  Astrocast.TV — Authority: 132
  Previous robotic probes on the surface of Mars really have not presented the latest in computer technology, largely because it takes so lon to get a robotic probe designed and launched. In a paper to appear in the International Journal of Astrobiology, a team of scientists have joined together to design what they call ...
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• AI Spacesuits Turn Astronauts Into Cyborg Biologists

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 767
  Equipped with wearable AI systems and digital eyes that see what human eyes can’t, space explorers of the future could be not just astronauts, but “cyborg astrobiologists.” That’s the vision of a research team led by Patrick McGuire, a University of Chicago geoscientist who’s developed algorithms that ...
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• Bacteria Could Survive in Martian Soil

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 590
  Written by Nicholos WethingtonMultiple missions have been sent to Mars with the hopes of testing the surface of the planet for life – or the conditions that could create life – on the Red Planet. The question of whether life in the form of bacteria (or something even more exotic!) exists on Mars is hotly [...]
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• Bacteria Could Survive in Martian Soil

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 663
  Multiple missions have been sent to Mars with the hopes of testing the surface of the planet for life – or the conditions that could create life – on the Red Planet. The question of whether life in the form of bacteria (or something even more exotic!) exists on Mars is hotly debated, and still requires a ...
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• Bacteria Survive In Simulated Mars Soil

  
  Astrocast.TV — Authority: 132
  In a paper to be published in Highlights in Astronomy, available online now here , Italian astrobiologists developed a chamber with simulated Mars soil and placed some bacteria (bacillus) within the soil. They conclude that “under the surface dust, if life was present on Mars in the past, some bacteria cell could ...
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• Physical Scientists to Apply Laws of Physics in Cancer Fight

  
  The X-Journals — Authority: 440
  Instead of killing cancer cells, researchers at Arizona State University will use the laws of physics to figure out how to control them. And, rather than treating cancer as a disease and seeking a cure, ASU scientists will view cancer cells as physical objects and study them the way a physicist would, using simple ...
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• 20 October, 2009 – This Week in Science

  
  This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast — Authority: 106
  Ribbon Tied Bubble of A Thing, New Planetary Neighbors, Epigenes in Da House, Extraterrestrial Rain, Bacterial Tube Life, an Interview w/ Dr. Mark Changizi, author of The Vision Revolution, and Much More!!!
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• Organic Molecules Detected in Exoplanet Atmosphere

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 663
  The basic chemistry for life has been detected the atmosphere of a second hot gas planet , HD 209458b. Data from the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes provided spectral observations that revealed molecules of carbon dioxide, methane and water vapor in the planets atmosphere. The Jupiter -sized planet – ...
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• "Potentially habitable exoplanet found." Whats next?

  
  Kentucky Space — Authority: 420
  Given the pace of discovery using Earth and spaceborne observatories, its not too much of a stretch to assume that sooner or later a planet orbiting its parent star in the "habitable" zone, a region where liquid water is likely to exist, will be found. So lets assume that a planet has been found in this "Goldilocks" ...
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• Antarctic Analogs For Extraterrestrial Environments

  
  NASA Watch — Authority: 567
  Diving Through A Microbial Landscape in Lake Untersee, Antarctica "Theres not much in the ice-covered lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys to interest anglers looking to land the big one. But for scientists who want to know more about some of Earths earliest organisms -- and, by extension, to recognize what life may ...
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• Forgotten Planet

  
  Discovery Space: Cosmic Ray — Authority: 410
  There’s another dwarf planet to add to the list of solarsystem bodies that   share minorleague status with Pluto. Newly published Hubble Space Telescope pictures show thatthe large asteroid Pallas is nearly spherical. In other words the body has enoughgravity to pull itself into ball where all surface features ...
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