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Aditya Chopra is a PhD student at the Planetary Science Institute at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. His research areas include astrobiology and planetary science with the focus of his PhD research being the examination of elemental abundances in different life forms and their environments to gain insight into the origin and evolution of life. He says astrobiology provides great satisfaction to his confused soul - he could be a chemist one minute and then be culturing microbes the next and if the stars are out, he enjoys zooming into the heavens above!
 
10
Jul 2012

7 minutes sure to keep us on the edge

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In less than a month, we will be treated to one of the most exhilarating rides in the solar system. Curiosity (The Mars Science Laboratory) may have had a pretty long journey since its launch last year but perhaps the hardest, most dangerous part is yet come… This video makes it clear why James Cameron used to be on a NASA Advisory Council. The drama built into the mission has the making of a Hollywood blockbuster (it even has a laser that....
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09
Jul 2012

A cool new way to checkout where “God” was found.

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The Large Hadron Collider is the Apollo program of the 21st Century. The project involves thousands of scientists and engineers from 111 nations and it is perhaps the most complex scientific project undertaken. The world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator operated by CERN had a simple task – to find God. Well, the God Particle anyway (a.k.a The Higgs Boson). And now the particle which might explain how things get mass has been cornered and caught in action at the LHC. In....
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09
Jul 2012

Could Higgs help us find life elsewhere?

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4th of July 2012, a date which will live in infamy, at least for the physicists amongst us. It was the day when the ‘God particle’ gained its independence from the realm of the unknown and could no longer be called the god-damn particle! I have been wondering if the discovery of the Higgs Boson could help astrobiologists find life elsewhere… Chances are that you’ve already heard about the announcement of the observation of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider.....
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