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Scientists Search for Life Under Antarctic Ice
With the temperature at a balmy midsummer -17c, drilling has started in Antarctica in an attempt to find evidence...
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Are There Planets Better at Supporting Life Than Earth?
There is, in this crazy world, one thing we know for sure: Our world is the world. Our planet...
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‘Cognitive Big Bang’ Discovered in Tiny Sea Worm
Several “brainy” genes that were duplicated in a tiny sea creature nearly 550 million years ago may have led...
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New Contender for Oldest Dinosaur
Palaeontologists have found what is likely to be the oldest known dinosaur, filling in a yawning evolutionary gap. A...
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New Age of Exploration in the Hunt for Extreme Life
A two-billion-dollar robot scoops up pale-red samples on the surface of Mars to search for chemical clues in the...
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Mars Rover Detects Simple Organic Compounds
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has detected several simple carbon-based organic compounds on Mars, but it remains unclear whether they...
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Model Sheds Light on Chemistry That Sparked Origin of Life
The question of how life began on a molecular level has been a longstanding problem in science. However, recent...
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Ancient Microbes Found in Buried Antarctic Lake
Beneath the icy surface of a buried Antarctic lake, in super-salty water devoid of light and oxygen that is...
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Birds Descended From Gliding Dinosaurs
Evidence is mounting that modern birds descended from gliding, feathered non-avian dinosaurs. Two dinosaurs could be candidates for the...
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Has Curiosity Rover Found Organic Molecules on Mars?
Much of the internet is buzzing over upcoming “big news” from NASA’s Curiosity rover, but the space agency’s scientists...