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Early Complex Earth Life Clung To Oxygenated Seafloors For Hundreds Of Millions Of Years

From the highest mountains to the deepest ocean, the driest desert to the lushest jungle, Earth displays a dazzling array of lifeforms. And eukaryotes account for many of these lifeforms, […]

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Water Planet Recon: Earth’s Largest Mission To Accelerate Species Discovery Reveals Extraordinary New Life Forms From Some Of Earth’s Most Extreme And Unexplored Environments

Scientists have discovered 1,121 marine species in a single year, marking a significant step forward in efforts to document life in the world’s oceans. From the ‘Ghost Shark’ Chimaera, a […]

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New Sulfur-dependent Ecosystem In A Gas Vent In The Depths Of The Chilean Pacific

Unlike most similar emanations described to date, this one shows no evidence of methane emission or consumption. The absence of this molecule and its abundance of sulfur make it a […]

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Water World Genomics: Unlocking Ocean Secrets With eDNA

Editor’s note: with recent speculation about the potential habitability of other worlds and understanding the processes whereby other biospheres arise and evolve, thought needs to be given to developing sensor […]

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Tricorder Tech: A Simple Filter Swap Could Advance Marine eDNA Biomonitoring

Editor’s note: with recent speculation about the potential habitability of other worlds and understanding the processes whereby other biospheres arise and evolve, thought needs to be given to developing sensor […]

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Drone Radar Reveals Buried Glaciers On Earth, Guiding The Search For Water On Mars

Understanding how to explore hidden glaciers on Mars begins not in a laboratory, but in remote field camps across Alaska and Wyoming.

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Offworld Science Droids: A Review Maps Key Technologies For Small-body Sampling Robots

Unlike planetary rovers operating on the Moon or Mars, robots working on asteroids and comets must interact with surfaces where gravity is extremely weak, terrain is highly irregular, and material […]

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Experimental and Numerical Modeling of Liposome Congregation in Meteorite Craters of Early Earth

This paper provides experimental and numerical evidence supporting the occurrence of liposome congregation at the floors of meteor craters on Early Earth.

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