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Life that Lives On Uranium
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
09/30/12 |
| Summary: 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 |
| Summary: 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 |
| Summary: 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 |
| Summary: 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 |
| Summary: 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 |
| Summary: 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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An Extremeophile Gene
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
07/28/12 |
| Summary: Scientists have discovered a new gene in bacteria that may be a key to life's survival in some of Earth's most extreme environments. |
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"Arsenic Life" Needs Phosphorus After All
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
07/10/12 |
| Summary: Two new reports show that the bacterium known as GFAJ-1 requires small amounts of phosphate to grow, and that it cannot substitute arsenic for phosphorus to survive, as one previous report had suggested. |
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The Toughest Life on Earth
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
06/26/12 |
| Summary: Research on the International Space Station is providing important data about the potential for life arriving on Earth from outer space. By exposing organic compounds and living organisms to space, scientists are studying the survival of life in the extreme environment that rests beyond Earth's atmosphere. |
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