Researchers at UCL and the University of Cambridge have discovered a new type of ice that more closely resembles liquid water than any other known ices and that may rewrite […]
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Posted inAway Teams & Field Reports, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Fossils & Paleontology, Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Press Release
Biosignatures: Discovery Of Earth’s Oldest DNA Breaks Record By One Million Years
Two-million-year-old DNA has been identified for the first time – opening a ‘game-changing’ new chapter in the history of evolution.
Posted inHabitable Zones, Mars, Press Release
New Evidence For Liquid Water Beneath The South Polar Ice Cap Of Mars
An international team of researchers has revealed new evidence for the possible existence of liquid water beneath the south polar ice cap of Mars.
Posted inVenus
No Signs (Yet) Of Life On Venus
The unusual behaviour of sulphur in Venus’ atmosphere cannot be explained by an ‘aerial’ form of extra-terrestrial life, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Cambridge used […]
Posted inBiosignatures & Paleobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Press Release
New Class Of Habitable Exoplanets Represent A Big Step Forward In The Search For life
In the search for life elsewhere, astronomers have mostly looked for planets of a similar size, mass, temperature and atmospheric composition to Earth. However, astronomers from the University of Cambridge […]
Posted inHabitable Zones, Press Release
Large Exoplanet Could Have The Right Conditions For Life
Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth to be potentially habitable, opening the search for life to planets significantly larger than Earth but smaller than […]
Posted inGenomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Press Release
Random Gene Pulsing Generates Patterns Of Life
A team of Cambridge scientists working on the intersection between biology and computation has found that random gene activity helps patterns form during development of a model multicellular system. We […]
Posted inExoplanets, -moons, -comets, Press Release
Water Is Common Yet Scarce In Exoplanets
The most extensive survey of atmospheric chemical compositions of exoplanets to date has revealed trends that challenge current theories of planet formation and has implications for the search for water […]
Posted inOrigin & Evolution of Life, Press Release
The Trails Left By Earth's First Land Animals
Our understanding of when the very first animals started living on land is helped by identifying trace fossils–the tracks and trails left by ancient animals–in sedimentary rocks that were deposited […]
Posted inOrigin & Evolution of Life, Press Release
Why Life on Earth First Got Big
Some of the earliest complex organisms on Earth – possibly some of the earliest animals to exist – got big not to compete for food, but to spread their offspring […]