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Odds of Finding Alien Life Boosted By Billions of Habitable Worlds
A new estimate of the number of habitable planets orbiting the most common type of stars in our galaxy...
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Did Exploding Stars Help Life On Earth Thrive?
Research by a Danish physicist suggests that the explosion of massive stars – supernovae – near the Solar System...
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Diversity Aided Mammals’ Survival Over Deep Time
When it comes to adapting to climate change, diversity is the mammal’s best defense. That is one of the...
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Life On Earth Evolved From ‘Redundant’ Chemical Systems
The earliest cells were unstable chemical systems that survived by combining a handful of shaky carbon-based assemblies together, researchers...
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Evolution Seen in Synthetic DNA
Researchers have succeeded in mimicking the chemistry of life in synthetic versions of DNA and RNA molecules. The work...
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Melting Glaciers Liberate Ancient Microbes
Locked in frozen vaults on Antarctica and Greenland, a lost world of ancient creatures awaits another chance at life....
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Asteroid Impacts Could Benefit Underground Life
An incoming asteroid may benefit microbes living deep underground, according to a recent study of an ancient impact in...
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Cave Bacteria’s Ability to Fight Antibiotics Predates Human-Made Drugs
Even though bacteria in Lechuguilla Cave have been cut off from the surface for millions of years and were...
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What Triggers a Mass Extinction?
The second-largest mass extinction in Earth’s history coincided with a short but intense ice age during which enormous glaciers...
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Dinosaurs From Space! Or Not
From the Smithsonian’s Dinosaur Tracking blog: Somewhere, out in the interstellar void, there may be a planet inhabited by hyper-advanced dinosaurs....