Expose an animal to extreme physical stress, and the expectation is simple: It will break down.
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Tricorder Tech: A Nanopore Diagnostic Tool Breakthrough Had Multiple Applications
Editor’s note: Nanopore technology has been used multiple times on the International Space Station to try and help elucidate changes in genomic function during exposure to conditions of spaceflight. This […]
Posted inAstrochemistry, Astrogeology, Astronomy & Telescopes, Atmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Press Release, SETI & Technosignatures, Terraforming & Geoengineering, TRAPPIST-1
Telltale Greenhouse Gases Could Signal Alien Terraforming Activity
If aliens modified a planet in their solar system to make it warmer, we’d be able to tell. A new UC Riverside study identifies the artificial greenhouse gases that would […]
Posted inAstrochemistry, Atmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Press Release, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Webb Telescope Probably Didn’t Find Life On An Exoplanet – Yet
Recent reports of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope finding signs of life on a distant planet understandably sparked excitement. A new study challenges this finding, but also outlines how the […]
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The Planet That Could End Life On Earth
A terrestrial planet hovering between Mars and Jupiter would be able to push Earth out of the solar system and wipe out life on this planet, according to a UC […]
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Ancient Microbes May Help Us Find Extraterrestrial Life Forms
Using light-capturing proteins in living microbes, scientists have reconstructed what life was like for some of Earth’s earliest organisms. These efforts could help us recognize signs of life on other […]
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Investigating The Potential For Life Around The Galaxy's Smallest Stars
When the world’s most powerful telescope launches into space this year, scientists will learn whether Earth-sized planets in our ‘solar neighborhood’ have a key prerequisite for life — an atmosphere. […]
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Rise Of Oxygen On Earth: Initial Estimates Off By 100 Million Years
New research shows the permanent rise of oxygen in our atmosphere, which set the stage for life as we know it, happened 100 million years later than previously thought. A […]
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Research Shows That We're Surprisingly Similar To Earth's First Animals
According to a UC Riverside study, 555-million-year-old oceanic creatures from the Ediacaran period share genes with today’s animals, including humans. “None of them had heads or skeletons. Many of them […]
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Venus Might Be habitable Today — If Not For Jupiter
Venus might not be a sweltering, waterless hellscape today, if Jupiter hadn’t altered its orbit around the Sun, according to new UC Riverside research. Jupiter has a mass that is […]