Astrobiology Magazine
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[:es]Cleaning up the clutter: how proto-biology arose from the prebiotic clutter [:]
[:es]Just like the mythical creation stories that depict the formation of the world as the story of order from chaos, the early Earth was home to a chaotic clutter of […]
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[:es]Do microbes control the formation of giant copper deposits? [:]
[:es]One of the major issues when studying ore deposits formed in surficial or near-surface environments is the relationship between ore-forming processes and bacteria. At a first glance, these environments appear […]
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[:es]Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’ [:]
[:es]The strange orbits of some objects in the farthest reaches of our solar system, hypothesised by some astronomers to be shaped by an unknown ninth planet, can instead be explained […]
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[:es]Scientists Finally Know What Time It Is on Saturn [:]
[:es]Using new data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, researchers believe they have solved a longstanding mystery of solar system science: the length of a day on Saturn. It’s 10 hours, 33 […]
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[:es] Narrowing the universe in the search for life [:]
[:es]Humankind’s exploration of space has for years pondered one central question: Is there another world somewhere in the universe where human beings could survive?[:]
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[:es]Looking for LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor [:]
[:es]Around 4 billion years ago there lived a microbe called LUCA: the Last Universal Common Ancestor. There is evidence that it could have lived a somewhat ‘alien’ lifestyle, hidden away […]
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[:es] Not in the DNA: Epigenetics discovered in single-celled archaea [:]
[:es]Researchers have found revolutionary evidence that an evolutionary phenomenon at work in complex organisms is at play in their single-celled, extreme-loving counterparts, too.[:]
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[:es]What Two Planetary Siblings Can Teach Us About Life [:]
[:es]Mars and Earth are like two siblings who have grown apart.[:]
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[:es]Plants have the edge in the search for life beyond Earth [:]
[:es]The reflected light from vegetation, particularly on older, hotter planets, could give away the existence of life elsewhere in the Universe, new research from scientists at the Carl Sagan Institute […]