Underwater robots work together without human input, Princeton University “This August in Monterey Bay, Calif., an entire fleet of undersea robots will for the first time work together without the […]
Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
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Strategies for Evolutionary Success – Sulfolipids
Researchers from NAI’s University of Rhode Island Team and their colleagues have studied the use of phosphorus vs. sulfur in the membrane lipid sythesis pathways of organisms resident in the […]
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Student Summer Opportunity in Subseafloor Microbiology
Dave Goldberg at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, and his colleague Howard Shuman, Professor of Microbiology at Columbia University, have funding and an immediate opening for a summer student / intern […]
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IODP International Workshop: Exploring Subseafloor Life With the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International (IODP-MI) and Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI) announce an international workshop on subseafloor life. The workshop will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, October […]
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Researchers Uncover Extreme Lake — and 3000-Year-Old Microbes — in a Mars-Like Antarctic Environment
NSF-supported researchers drilling into Lake Vida, an Antarctic “ice-block” lake, have found the lake isn’t really an ice block at all. In the December 16 issue of theĀ Proceedings of the […]
![An artistās depiction of our world when the Earthshine measurements were taken, enhanced to show the āred edgeā from vegetation. A distant astronomer on another planet would see the spectral signatures of our oxygen atmosphere, water, and chlorophyll from land plants. [enlarge] Credit: John Walkerās āEarth Viewer,ā Christine Lafon, (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics).](https://i0.wp.com/astrobiology.com/wp-content/uploads/2002/10/Astronomers-Find-Life-on-Earth.png?resize=1200%2C719&ssl=1)
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Astronomers Find Life On Earth
Now that the discovery of extrasolar planets, or planets around distant stars, has become relatively routine, scientists are now tackling the next step: finding life-bearing worlds. To do this, observers […]
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More Evidence of an Ice Covered Ocean on Europa
NASA researchers have the strongest evidence yet that one of Jupiterās most mysterious moons hides a fermenting ocean of water underneath its icy coat. This evidence comes from magnetic readings […]
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Mars Once Had Salty Oceans ā Just Like Earth
On the same day that NASA was announcing the apparent presence of liquid water near the surface of Mars, another research team announced that Mars once had salty oceans like […]