Every school kid knows that Earth has a magnetic field — it’s what makes compasses align north-south and lets us navigate the oceans. It also protects the atmosphere, and thus […]
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Posted inExtremeophiles and Extreme Environments, Microbiology & Virology, Nanotechnology & SynBio, Press Release
Harvesting Solar Fuels Through a Bacterium's Unusual Appetite For Gold
A bacterium named Moorella thermoacetica won’t work for free. But UC Berkeley researchers have figured out it has an appetite for gold. And in exchange for this special treat, the […]
Posted inPress Release, SETI & Technosignatures
Breakthrough Listen To Observe Tabby's Star KIC 8462852
Breakthrough Listen, which was created last year with $100 million in funding over 10 years from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation and its founder, internet investor Yuri Milner, won’t be the […]
Posted inPress Release, SETI & Technosignatures
$100 Million Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Announced
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation and its founder, internet investor Yuri Milner, have signed a contract with the University of California, Berkeley, to lead a major escalation in the search for […]
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Budgets and Policy, SETI & Technosignatures
Testimony of Dan Werthimer Before Congress
SETI experiments are trying to determine whether other intelligent, technologically capable, life exists in the universe, to answer the question “Are we alone?” or “Is anybody out there?” STATEMENT OF […]
Posted inGenomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Plant Biology
Bringing Extinct Plants to Life
Jeff Benca is an admitted ueber-geek when it comes to prehistoric plants, so it was no surprise that, when he submitted a paper describing a new species of long-extinct lycopod […]
Posted inExoplanets, -moons, -comets
1 in 5 Sun-like Stars Has Earth-size Planet in Habitable Zone
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, now crippled and its four-year mission at an end, nevertheless provided enough data to complete its mission objective: to determine how many of the 100 billion stars […]