20 – 21 June, 2006, Shine Dome, Australian Academy of Science, Gordon Street, Acton, ACT This conference is convened to pay tribute to the work of Paul Davies, following the […]
Origin & Evolution of Life
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New Analysis of Meteorite Shows Key Ingredients for Life on Earth May Have Been Delivered by Comets
An object that fell to Earth more than 136 years ago has revealed new clues about the origin of meteorites in space and new information about how life may have […]
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Scientists find clues that the path leading to the origin of life begins in deep space
Duplicating the harsh conditions of cold interstellar space in the laboratory, scientists from The Astrochemistry Laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The […]
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Earth Life Appeared on Land 1.5 billion Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
Evidence of life on Earth has been found as far back as 3.8 billion years. Given that the intense bombardment that accompanied the birth of the solar system only subsided […]
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Carl Sagan – Galileo Interdisciplinary Scientist (1934 – 1996)
Carl Sagan passed away on December 20, 1996 of pneumonia after a two-year battle with bone marrow disease. He was 62, and will be sorely missed by his friends and […]
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Hearing: Possibility Of Intelligent Life Elsewhere In The Universe [1977 Revision]
Prepared for the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session, by the Science Policy research Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress. Full text […]
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Book: Intelligent Life In The Universe by I.S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan
This book, first published in 1966, is a product of a unique international collaboration between a world famous Russian astronomer and a leading American space scientist, the first popular and […]
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Biology And The Exploration Of Mars
PREFACE Until recent years the origin of life and its possible occurrence elsewhere in the universe have been matters for speculation only. The rapid growth of molecular biology since 1940 […]
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Life Its Nature, Origin And Development – A. I. Oparin
Oparin, A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich), 1894-1980.