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Tricorder Tech: ESA CAVES 2026 Cavenauts Use An Electronic FieldBook

by Keith Cowing

Astronauts Tracy Dyson (NASA), Rosemary Coogan (ESA) and Ayu Yoneda (JAXA) measuring water parameters and recording them in the Electronic FieldBook during ESA CAVES2026 course.

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Offworld Biotech: Handling Microbial And Botanical Samples

by Keith Cowing

NASA astronaut and Expedition 74 flight engineer Jessica Meir activates tubes filled with microbial and botanical samples associated with a variety of student-designed experiments inside the International Space Station’s Harmony […]

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Away Team Mission: NASA, USGS Scientists Go Rock Hounding in California’s High Desert

by Keith Cowing

Editor’s note: when it comes to conducting field trips – sorties – Away Team missions – on another world, astrogeology and astrobiology and astrochemistry overlap with one another all the […]

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Liquid–liquid Phase Separation As A Driver Of Abiogenesis And Evolution

by Keith Cowing

The origin of life may have emerged through physical mechanisms that enable molecular organization and self-assembly. Building on Alexander Oparin’s concept of coacervate droplets, liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) offers a […]

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