What if fog isn’t just misty air, but a living ecosystem?
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Ocean Planet Recon: ASU Expedition Finds An Aquatic World Teeming With Life
Imagine descending nearly a mile and a half into a watery abyss, watching the sunlight disappear as the world around you turns completely black. Then suddenly, you find yourself surrounded […]
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Research On How Rocks Preserve Signs Of Life Honors Late ASU Mentor Jack Farmer
Building from his PhD work at Arizona State University, Jon Lima-Zaloumis is developing methods to look for signs of active life occurring in extreme environments, namely in the Earth’s atmosphere […]
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Surface Water Dives Deep And Transforms Earth’s Core’s Outer Layer
A few decades ago, seismologists imaging the deep planet identified a thin layer, just over a few hundred kilometers thick. The origin of this layer, known as the E prime […]
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New “Assembly Theory” Unifies Physics And Biology To Explain Evolution And Complexity
An international team of researchers has developed a new theoretical framework that bridges physics and biology to provide a unified approach for understanding how complexity and evolution emerge in nature. […]
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ASU-led Team Defends Molecular Oxygen Findings
When did molecular oxygen, the gas that all large and complex forms of life on Earth today require to function, first appear on Earth?
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Serpentine Rocks Provide Evidence Of Fossil Life On Earth
In the Hajar Mountains of Oman is a large slab of oceanic crust consisting of serpentinized ultramafic rocks, the largest exposure of such rocks on Earth’s surface. These distinctive rocks […]
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New Possibilities For life At The Bottom Of Earth's Ocean, And Perhaps In Oceans On Other Planets
In the strange, dark world of the ocean floor, underwater fissures, called hydrothermal vents, host complex communities of life.
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Aquatic Microorganisms Offer Important Window On The History Of Life
The air, earth and water of our planet are pulsating with living things. Yet, a vast and diverse web of life exists, about which almost nothing is known. This is […]
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Continental Microbes Helped Seed Ancient Seas With Nitrogen
inds of many evolutionary biologists, the continents were irrelevant early in the Earth’s history, because they are assumed to have been barren of life until the first plants appeared, around […]