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• More Mars Meteorite ALH84001 Discoveries Published (Update)

  
  NASA Watch — Authority: 528
  New Study Adds to Finding of Ancient Life Signs In Mars Meteorite , NASA "Using more advanced analytical instruments now available, a Johnson Space Center research team has reexamined the 1996 finding that a meteorite contains strong evidence that life may have existed on ancient Mars." More Mars Meteorite ...
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• Is Water Common in the Universe? New Search for the Building Blocks of Life

  
  The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel — Authority: 537
  Although we dont know yet whether life exists any place beside Earth, we do know that there are three key pieces of evidence  that point to the fact that life should be common in the universe. One, the chemical elements that created life on Earth -hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and almost two dozen other key elements ...
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• Is Life a Contant of the Cosmos? New Analysis Says "Yes"

  
  The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel — Authority: 537
  A recent mathematical analysis says that life as we know it is written into the laws of reality.  DNA is built from a set of twenty amino acids - the first ten of those can create simple prebiotic life, and now it seems that those ten are thermodynamically destined to occur wherever they can. For those ...
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• Evidence of life on Mars lurks beneath surface of meteorite, Nasa experts claim [del.icio.us]

  
  Blah, Blah! Technology — Authority: 425
  Nasa scientists have produced the most compelling evidence yet that bacterial life exists on Mars. It showed that microscopic worm-like structures found in a Martian meteorite that hit the Earth 13,000 years ago are almost certainly fossilised bacteria. The so-called bio-morphs are embedded beneath the surface layers ...
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• Biological past for Mars rock?

  
  Kentucky Space — Authority: 421
  Features of Martian meteorite ALH 84001 could be of biological origin, according to NewScientist . Wayne Kentucky Space , Space
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• More Mars Meteorite ALH84001 Discoveries Published

  
  NASA Watch — Authority: 528
  Origins of magnetite nanocrystals in Martian meteorite ALH84001 , Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 73, Issue 21, 1 November 2009, Pages 6631-6677 "We conclude that the vast majority of the nanocrystal magnetites present in the carbonate disks could not have formed by any of the currently proposed thermal ...
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• New Findings On Alan Hills Meteorite Point to Microbial Life

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 660
  Scientists caused quite a stir in 1996 when they announced a meteorite had been found in Antarctica that might contain evidence for microscopic fossils of Martian bacteria. While subsequent studies of the now famous Alan Hills Meteorite shot down theories that the Mars rock held fossilized alien life, both sides ...
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• 24 November, 2009 – This Week in Science

  
  This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast — Authority: 107
  Origin Anniversary, Radio Brains, Rampaging Robot Vampires Need Lawyers Too, Life Mutations and Electricity, RNA Warmth, Biophotonic Communication, Life as a Carrot, Kiki Rants, TWi the End of the World, And Much, Much More!
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• New Take on Titan Hints at More Fuel for Potential Life

  
  80beats — Authority: 631
  With its thick atmosphere, chemical makeup, and an atmospheric pressure not too far from Earth’s, Titan is one of the most likely candidates for finding life elsewhere in our solar system. But at a temperature close to -300 degrees Fahrenheit, the surface of this Saturnian moon in anything but what we humans ...
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• “RuBisCo Stars”: Part II

  
  Centauri Dreams — Authority: 125
  by Joe Davis Yesterday we followed Joe Davis’ adventures in Puerto Rico as he arranged for the transmission of a message to the stars near the 35th anniversary of the famous message to M13, sent from the same site in 1974. Today Davis concludes the story, with a look at how the ‘RuBisCo’ message was put ...
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• Unmasking Jupiters Europa: The Search for an Alien Biosphere (VIDEO)

  
  The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel — Authority: 537
  "Theres nothing saying there is life there now.  But we do know there are the physical conditions to support it." Richard Greenberg, University of Arizona. worlds leading expert on Europa. Based on what we know about the Jovian moon, parts of Europas seafloor should greatly resemble the environments around ...
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• Do Cosmic Rays Affect Growth of Life on Earth?

  
  The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel — Authority: 537
  A new study shows that cosmic radiation could be accelerating thegrowth of our Earth forests, though - as with most cosmic radiationeffects - we dont know how its happening or what the effects are. But in accordance with standard "Science From Fantastical SpaceRadiation" practice, the results were only discovered by ...
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• “RuBisCo Stars” and the Riddle of Life

  
  Centauri Dreams — Authority: 125
  by Joe Davis We’ve looked before at the work of MIT biology research affiliate Joe Davis, whose passion is the melding of science and art. Among his many ideas are the creation of an ‘infogene,’ engineering a sign of human intelligence into the genome of bacteria that could be flung into the heavens by the ...
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• Alien Oxygen Atmosphere Discovered (on Stars!)

  
  The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel — Authority: 537
  Our planetary surveys are nowhere near Star Treks strike rate - they keep finding worlds stuffed with green-skinned females, humanoid societies, and thinly veiled metaphors for the situations they left behind a few hundred light (and regular) years ago.  We find rocks which could freeze, explode and crush organic ...
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• Avatar: A Stunning New World That NASA Is Ignoring

  
  NASA Watch — Authority: 528
  Keiths note: " Avatar ", a film by former NASA Advisory Committee member James Cameron, will debut across the planet on 18 December. Widely hailed as "ground breaking" the film may well push the boundaries of what can be portrayed on the big screen. The film centers around humans mining precious materials on a ...
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• NASA found lots of water on the moon

  
  Mr. Barlow's Blog — Authority: 130
  Last month NASA smashed a rocket, called the LCROSS, into the moon . It gouged a 30-meter-wide (100-foot-wide) hole in a shadowy crater near the moon’s south pole, letting fly more than 200 tons of material. After analysing the explosion the scientists found a significant amount — about a dozen bucketfuls of ...
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• Gamma Ray Bursts and Astrobiology

  
  Astrocast.TV — Authority: 134
  Gamma ray bursts (GRB) and astrobiology are two topics that would certainly be on anyone’s list of ‘hot topics’ in astronomy. Imagine finding both topics in a single paper. If you go to this paper by astronomers from Cuba and Brazil you will find these topics paired. Within the paper to be published in the ...
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• PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: SEMINAR ON ASTROBIOLOGY

  
  MetroCatholic — Authority: 485
  VATICAN CITY, 10 NOV 2009 ( VIS ) – The conclusions of a study week on astrobiology, organised by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Vatican Observatory, were presented this morning in the Holy See Press Office. Participating in the press conference were Fr. Jose Funes S.J., director of the Vatican ...
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• Außerirdische laut Vatikan bibelkonform

  
  Nerdcore — Authority: 654
  Das klingt jetzt alles ziemlich irre, ist aber alles super ernstgemeint: Dass sich die Kirche mit Aliens beschäftigt, ist nix neues. Diese Woche hat der Vatikan zu einer Astrobiologie-Konferenz geladen, auf der Wissenschaftler und Theologen zusammenkamen, um die Frage zu diskutieren, ob Außerirdische denn in ...
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• Vatican Holds Conference on Extraterrestrial Life

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 598
  Written by Nicholos WethingtonThough it may seem an unlikely location to happen upon a conference on astrobiology, the Vatican recently held a “study week” of over 30 astronomers, biologists, geologists and religious leaders to discuss the question of the existence of extraterrestrials.This follows the statement ...
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