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Glass Munchers under the Sea
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
10/29/01 |
| A team of researchers recently announced that they have found the deepest-living microbes on the planet that eats into rock at the bottom of the sea floor |
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The Three Domains of Life
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
10/22/01 |
| When scientists first started to classify life, everything was designated as either an animal or a plant. But as new forms of life were discovered, the original classification was not sufficient enough to organize the diversity and complexity of life. |
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Life Down Under
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
07/13/01 |
| Recent work by Christopher Chyba (SETI Institute) and Kevin Hand (Stanford University) suggests that there may be ways to nourish biology in watery environments where the Sun's rays don't penetrate. |
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How Small Can Life Be?
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
07/09/01 |
| As advanced microscopes enable us to peer deeper into the realms of inner space, biologists have been faced with a vexing question: Is there a size limit on life? |
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Raising Baby Tubeworms
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
05/13/01 |
| For years scientists have wondered how giant red-tipped tubeworms and other exotic marine life found at hydrothermal vents get from place to place and how long their larva survive in a cold, eternally dark place. Now biologist Lauren Mullineaux and colleagues have helped answer those questions. |
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Unpuzzling Proteins
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
05/04/01 |
| Thanks to a new supercomputer, scientists may be a step closer to understanding one of nature's more difficult puzzles. |
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Keeping
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
04/23/01 |
| Using a novel detector attached to a submarine, a research team led by University of Delaware marine scientists has determined that water chemistry controls the location and distribution of two species of weird worms that inhabit deep-sea hydrothermal vent sites. |
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
04/11/01 |
| An expedition to geysers on the floor of the Indian Ocean is studying how animals there evolve and disperse geographically. |
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Some Like it Hot
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
03/07/01 |
| NASA astrobiologist Jack Farmer studies microorganisms. |
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