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The search for unusual alien life on Earth and life that can survive on Mars
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Apr 21, 2009 |
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Questions such as "How to search for weird alien life?" and "Would Earth microbes survive if delivered to the surface of Mars?" are addressed in articles that are part of the collection of reports presented ...
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New Window Opens on the Secret Life of Microbes
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Mar 13, 2008 |
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Nowhere is the principle of "strength in numbers" more apparent than in the collective power of microbes: despite their simplicity, these one-cell organisms -- which number about 5 million trillion trillion ...
Microbes as climate engineers
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Jan 29, 2008 |
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We might think we control the climate but unless we harness the powers of our microbial co-habitants on this planet we might be fighting a losing battle, according to an article in the February 2008 issue of Microbiology To ...
NASA mission sends germs into space
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May 05, 2009 |
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Millions of microbe astronauts will travel into space Tuesday aboard a NASA satellite. These germs are part of a mission led by the NASA Ames Research Center at California's Moffett Field to study how floating in space alters ...
Oil-eating microbes give clue to ancient energy source
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Sep 09, 2008 |
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Microbes that break down oil and petroleum are more diverse than we thought, suggesting hydrocarbons were used as an energy source early in Earth's history, scientists heard today at the Society for General Microbiology's ...
How did life on Earth originate?
Apr 03, 2007 |
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Did life arrive from space? Rather than developing here, could the first life forms have been catapulted to Earth on a chunk of rock from outer space? Investigations show that microbes are capable of surviving ...
Billions of years ago, microbes were key in developing modern nitrogen cycle
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Feb 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As the world marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, there is much focus on evolution in animals and plants. But new research shows that for the countless billions of tiniest creatures - microbes ...
Hot springs microbes hold key to dating sedimentary rocks, researchers say
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 22, 2008 |
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Scientists studying microbial communities and the growth of sedimentary rock at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park have made a surprising discovery about the geological record of life and the environment.
Scientists begin census of microbes: the trillions that live in or on us
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Scientists are beginning a large-scale effort to identify and analyze the vast majority of cells in or on your body that aren't of human origin.
Methane from microbes: a fuel for the future
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Dec 10, 2007 |
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Microbes could provide a clean, renewable energy source and use up carbon dioxide in the process, suggested Dr James Chong at a Science Media Centre press briefing today.
Microbes beneath sea floor genetically distinct
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Jul 21, 2008 |
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Tiny microbes beneath the sea floor, distinct from life on the Earth's surface, may account for one-tenth of the Earth's living biomass, according to an interdisciplinary team of researchers, but many of these minute creatures ...
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