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Seeking Life Underground
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
10/09/12 |
| With funding from the NASA Astrobiology Institute, scientists are developing and testing instruments and techniques to detect life deep below Earth's surface. |
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Microbial Alchemy
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
10/07/12 |
| Researchers have discovered that a bacterium's ability to withstand toxicity is key to creating 24-karat gold. With this knowledge, they created a multimedia art installation that received an honorable mention at a recent cyber art competition. |
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Microbes Living Under a Contaminated Waste Site
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
10/05/12 |
| Scientists have sequenced nearly 150,000 genes from soil samples at a former uranium mill. The study could help researchers understand how microbial communities in soil clean up sites contaminated with toxic metals. The results may even have implications in helping to reduce greenhouse gases. |
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Life that Lives On Uranium
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
09/30/12 |
| A new study is providing insights into how living organisms use different mechanisms to adapt to their surroundings. The study focuses on two microorganisms that use different techniques to cope with uranium toxicity in their environments. |
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Mars-Like Places on Earth Provide Insight to Life
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
09/29/12 |
| Astrobiologists study life in Earth's most extreme environments - from the Antarctic permafrost to the salt pans of Tunisia - in order to understand how life might adapt to environments on other planets. Recently, researchers presented new findings from field expeditions to the most Mars-like places on Earth. |
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Cavenauts Return to Earth
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
09/22/12 |
| The international team of astronauts taking part in ESA’s caving adventure have returned to Earth after spending six days underground conducting research in areas including geology, biology and microbiology. |
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The Deepest Drilling on Earth
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
09/10/12 |
| A team of scientists has drilled into the Earth and obtained rock samples from deeper than 2,111 meters below the sea floor. The samples could provide valuable information about the deep subsurface biosphere of Earth. |
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Astronauts Search for Life Underground
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
09/01/12 |
| A team of astronauts are taking part in a caving adventure designed to prepare them for spaceflight. While working in the confined space, the they will also search for unique cave-dwelling life while testing new equipment and scientific procedures. |
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There are Fewer Microbes than You Think
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
08/30/12 |
| A new study on the number of microbes living in ocean sediments has produced a result much lower than previous estimates. Even so, the new estimate is still staggering. |
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