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Nanostructures In The Deep Ocean Floor Hint At Life’s Origin

by Keith Cowing

Researchers led by Ryuhei Nakamura at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan and The Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) of Tokyo Institute of Technology have discovered inorganic […]

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Ice World Surveys: Laser-based Ice-core Sampling For Studying Climate Change

by Keith Cowing

Editor’s note: as we prepare to visit ice-covered ocean worlds such as Europa and Enceladus – and one day to actually drill beneath their outer surface – we’re certainly going […]

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