Special Session “Microbially mediated processes governing the redox cycling of metals” at the 2007 Goldschmidt Conference, Cologne (Germany) Session Organizers: Colleen Hansel, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University […]
Origin & Evolution of Life
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NASA Advisor on the Search for Life to Receive Medal of Freedom
Dr. Joshua Lederberg, a Nobel-winning microbiolgist whose advice helped create NASA’s early biology programs, will receive the Medal of Freedom, the United States’ highest civilian honor. Dr. Lederberg became interested […]
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Mineral Surfaces and Life
Robert Hazen, from NAI’s Carnegie Institution of Washington Team, published his 2005 Presidential Address to the Mineralogical Society of America in this month’s American Mineralogist. The address reviews the role […]
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Oxygen and Life in the Precambrian
The December 2006 issue of Geobiology is a collection of papers focusing on the history of Earth’s biogeochemistry, from the earliest sedimentary rocks in Greenland to the late Proterozoic. The […]
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NAI Researchers to Recreate Conditions of the Early Earth
NAI has approved funding for the development of a new, state-of-the-art facility capable of recreating past atmospheric and oceanic conditions, to be called VAL, the Variable Atmospheres Laboratory. Capable of […]
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New Book on the Neoproterozoic
Scientists from NAI’s Penn State Team have contributed to a new book entitled “Neoproterozoic Geobiology and Paleobiology,” Xiao, Shuhai; Kaufman, Alan J. (Eds.). Their article, entitled “Molecular Timescale of Evolution […]
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Conditions for the Emergence of Life on the Early Earth: Special Issue Special Issue
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (B). Organised and edited by Charles Cockell, Sydney Leach and Ian Smith Published August 2006 Living entities exhibit the three fundamental characteristics of metabolism, […]
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NAI Director's Seminar 11/27: Formation of Habitable Planetary Systems: Are We Normal?
Speakers: Sean Raymond (University of Colorado) and Avi Mandell (Goddard Space Flight Center) Date/Time: Monday, November 27, 2006 11AM PST Abstract: For a planet to be potentially habitable over long […]
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Romer's Gap Confirmed
Peter Ward from NAI’s Alumni Team at the University of Washington and his collaborators have a new paper out in PNAS providing supportive evidence for Romer’s Gap. Their results link […]
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University of Washington Seminar: Self-assembly Processes in the Prebiotic Environment
Join us for the next University of Washington Astrobiology Seminar! David Deamer of U.C. Santa Cruz will be speaking on the topic “Self-assembly Processes in the Prebiotic Environment” Date/Time: Tuesday, […]