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Searching For Extraterrestrial Life Advances Terrestrial Sustainability

by Keith Cowing

Astrobiology, while traditionally focused on understanding the origin of life on Earth and the potential for life elsewhere, offers powerful tools and insights for addressing urgent challenges on our planet.

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Exploring Organic Compound Preservation Through Long-term In Situ Experiments In The Atacama Desert And The Relevance For Mars

by Keith Cowing

The preservation of organic compounds under extreme environmental conditions remains a critical challenge for both terrestrial ecology applications on Earth and astrobiology.

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Planetary Bioinformatics: Breaking Through Biology’s Data Wall On Earth

by Keith Cowing

Editor’s note: If we aspire to mount expeditions to new worlds and then embrace the task of characterizing and quantifying whatever life forms we find, the ability to map and […]

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AstroAgents: A Multi-Agent AI for Hypothesis Generation from Mass Spectrometry Data

by Keith Cowing

With upcoming sample return missions across the solar system and the increasing availability of mass spectrometry data, there is an urgent need for methods that analyze such data within the […]

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Tricorder Tech: Real-time Detection Of Low Gas Concentrations

by Keith Cowing

Editor’s note: Sample return missions are difficult even when worlds are close to one another. Doing in situ examination and documentation is going to be very important as we explore […]

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Tricorder Tech: AI Tool Creates Synthetic Images Of Cells For Enhanced Microscopy Analysis

by Keith Cowing

Editor’s note: when we start to send Away Teams to other worlds to search for – and then quantify – life forms imagery will play a pivotal role. Given the […]

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ESA Away Team Tricorder Training: The Electronic Field Book

by Keith Cowing

ESA is developing an application that tells astronauts where they are, where they ran scientific operations and will also connect to mission control. The Electronic Field Book is a tool […]

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Away Teams: What Microbes Can Tell Us about Life On Earth And In Space

by Keith Cowing

Microbes are just about everywhere, from the soil to the air to arctic ice to oceans, lakes, and rivers—not to mention all over your body and the phone or computer […]

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