Origins
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Jan 12, 2021New discovery may validate theories of the formation of organic compounds in extraterrestrial environments.
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Aug 26, 2020A theory, called "panspermia", supports the possibility that microbes may migrate between planets and distribute life in the universe.
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May 1, 2020For much of its existence, Earth has been inhabited. But if researchers remotely analyzed the atmosphere of that young Earth, they might have missed the evidence for life.
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Mar 6, 2020To help answer one of the great existential questions - how did life begin? - a new study combines biological and cosmological models. It reveals life in the universe could be common, but not in our neighborhood
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Feb 25, 2020Research team explores how fundamental features of genome affects organism's ability to thrive in an extreme environment on Earth and beyond.
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Jan 26, 2020Research has revealed the existence of an "emotionotopic" mapping in the right temporo-parietal territories of the brain, associated to the emotional experience elicited by watching the Forrest Gump movie.
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Jan 24, 2020Detection of ammonium salts may be a further indication that comet impacts may have made life on Earth possible.
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Jan 16, 2020Astronomers have identified where molecules containing phosphorus form, how this element is carried in comets, and how a particular molecule may have played a crucial role in starting life on our planet.
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Nov 6, 2019Sulfur chemistry was vital for early anaerobic life in the Archean eon, over 2.5 billion years ago
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Nov 5, 2019By creating protocells in hot, alkaline seawater, a UCL-led research team has added to evidence that the origin of life could have been in deep-sea hydrothermal vents rather than shallow pools.