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Brine-Loving Microbes Reveal Secrets to Success in Chemically Extreme Environments

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have completed the first study of microbes that live within the plumbing of deep-sea mud volcanoes in the Gulf of Mexico, where conditions may resemble those in extraterrestrial ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1




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Global extinction: Gradual doom is just as bad as abrupt

A painstakingly detailed investigation shows that mass extinctions need not be sudden events. The deadliest mass extinction of all took a long time to kill 90 percent of Earth's marine life, and it killed ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (20) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A salt-free primordial soup?

Most scientists who study the origin of life assume that it occurred in the ocean. But a minority view is that ions in seawater may interfere with prebiotic chemistry, making a freshwater environment more ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

China, India to jump forward with Hawaii telescope

China and India are catapulting to the forefront of astronomy research with their decision to join as partners in a Hawaii telescope that will be the world's largest when it's built later this decade.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

British oceanographers find new species in Indian Ocean hydrothermal vents

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team sailing on the vessel James Cook has been studying the unique habitat surrounding deep sea vents in the Indian Ocean far off the south-east coast of Africa. The vents, created ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

As Voyager 1 nears edge of solar system, scientists look back

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1977, Jimmy Carter was sworn in as president, Elvis died, Virginia park ranger Roy Sullivan was hit by lightning a record seventh time, and two NASA space probes destined to turn planetary ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Landsat satellites track Yellowstone's underground heat

(PhysOrg.com) -- Yellowstone National Park sits on top of a vast, ancient, and still active volcano. Heat pours off its underground magma chamber, and is the fuel for Yellowstone's famous features -- more ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Total eclipse of the moon

Waking up before sunrise can be tough to do, especially on a weekend.  On Saturday, Dec. 10th, you might be glad you did.  A total eclipse of the Moon will be visible in the early morning skies of ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Ten years of Very Large Telescope adaptive optics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ten years ago today, NACO became operational: the first adaptive optics system of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). Adaptive Optics allows astronomers to remove the stars' twinkling – ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 3

Timeline of a mass extinction: New evidence points to rapid collapse of Earth’s species 252 million years ago

Since the first organisms appeared on Earth approximately 3.8 billion years ago, life on the planet has had some close calls. In the last 500 million years, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions, including ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 34 | with audio podcast

Space image: Jupiter-Io montage

(PhysOrg.com) -- This montage of New Horizons images shows Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, and were taken during the spacecraft's Jupiter flyby in early 2007.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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