Astropharmacy / Biotechnology
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Advances in Extremophile Research: Biotechnological Applications through Isolation and Identification Techniques

by Keith Cowing

Extremophiles, organisms thriving in extreme environments such as hot springs, deep-sea hydrothermal vents, and hypersaline ecosystems, have garnered significant attention due to their remarkable adaptability and biotechnological potential. This review […]

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Technosignatures: Did WISE Detect Dyson Spheres/Structures Around Gaia-2MASS-selected Stars?

by Keith Cowing

Soon after the release of the WISE all-sky catalogue of 500 million mid-infrared (IR) objects, suggestions were made that it could be used to search for extrasolar devices constructed by […]

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Lab-on-chip Technologies For Space Research — Current Trends and Prospects

by Keith Cowing

The in-depth analysis concerning application of microfluidic instruments for space biology research is presented.

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Potential Indicators Of Life On Other Planets Can Be Created In A Lab

by Keith Cowing

One way to understand the potential for life on far-off planets — those in other solar systems that orbit different stars — is to study a planet’s atmosphere. Telescopic images […]

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Detailed Abundances of the Planet-hosting TOI-1173 A/B system: Possible Evidence of Planet Engulfment in a Very Wide Binary

by Keith Cowing

Over the last decade, studies of large samples of binary systems identified chemical anomalies, and showed that they might be attributed to planet formation or planet engulfment. However, both scenarios […]

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The Rich Interstellar Reservoir Of Dinitriles: Detection of Malononitrile and Maleonitrile in TMC-1

by Keith Cowing

While the nitrile group is by far the most prevalent one among interstellar molecules, the existence of interstellar dinitriles (molecules containing two -CN groups) has recently been proven. Here we […]

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Webb Telescope Finds A Potentially Habitable Icy World

by Keith Cowing

A international team of astronomers led by Université de Montréal has made an exciting discovery about the temperate exoplanet LHS 1140 b: it could be a promising “super-Earth” covered in […]

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A Census of Sun’s Ancestors and their Contributions to the Solar System Chemical Composition

by Keith Cowing

In this work we compute the rates and numbers of different types of stars and phenomena (SNe, novae, white dwarfs, merging neutron stars, black holes) that contributed to the chemical […]

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