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Finding Nemo 6: Living By Vibration
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
09/25/03 |
| This multipart chronicle follows this summer's voyage to discover new deep-sea species. The joint Australian and New Zealand expedition sought to catalog what has never been seen before: the ocean web of organisms that sustain themselves in some of our planet's most extreme environments. |
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Finding Nemo 5: Diving The Abyss
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
09/20/03 |
| This multipart chronicle follows this summer's voyage to discover new deep-sea species. The joint Australian and New Zealand expedition sought to catalog what has never been seen before: the ocean web of organisms that sustain themselves in some of our planet's most extreme environments. |
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Finding Nemo 4: Aliens Among Us
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
09/19/03 |
| This multipart chronicle follows this summer's voyage to discover new deep-sea species. The joint Australian and New Zealand expedition sought to catalog what has never been seen before: the ocean web of organisms that sustain themselves in some of our planet's most extreme environments. |
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Finding Nemo 3: Ancient White Shark
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
09/18/03 |
| This multipart chronicle follows this summer's voyage to discover new deep-sea species. The joint Australian and New Zealand expedition sought to catalog what has never been seen before: the ocean web of organisms that sustain themselves in some of our planet's most extreme environments. |
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Finding Nemo 2: Nameless Creatures
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
09/14/03 |
| This multipart chronicle follows this summer's voyage to discover new deep-sea species. The joint Australian and New Zealand expedition sought to catalog what has never been seen before: the ocean web of organisms that sustain themselves in some of our planet's most extreme environments. |
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Finding Nemo I: Originating Species
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
09/13/03 |
| This multipart chronicle follows this summer's voyage to discover new deep-sea species. The joint Australian and New Zealand expedition sought to catalog what has never been seen before: the ocean web of organisms that sustain themselves in some of our planet's most extreme environments. |
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Life's Limit
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
09/02/03 |
| Extreme life forms can thrive in harsh conditions of salt, pressure, temperature and pH, but share a common theme of needing liquid water. Dr. Rocco Mancinelli of the SETI Institute describes his fascination with finding what are the environmental limits to life. |
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Alien Infection
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
08/25/03 |
| As we look toward exploring other worlds, and perhaps even bringing samples back to Earth for testing, astrobiologists have to wonder: could there be alien pathogens in those samples that will wreak havoc on our world? |
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The Unboilable Bug
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
08/16/03 |
| Long thought to be impossible, a single-celled microbe has been found to thrive above the boiling temperature of water. The record-holder, called 'Strain 121', is part of a class of extreme lifeforms, but surviving a top temperature of 250 degrees Fahrenheit takes this discovery into a class of its own. |
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Atlantis Diary XI: Encore
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
07/11/03 |
| Diving near the North Atlantic ridge, a team of 24 scientists have begun exploring the deep, hot vents where the Earth's inner mantle meets the crust. Their spectacular world --discovered just two years ago--will be chronicled in their online journal account, the Atlantis Diaries. |
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