An international team of investigators believes it may have discovered one of the possible birthplaces of life here on Earth. The research took the group to the mud volcanoes of Isua, in southwestern Greenland. The location fulfilled all necessary conditions to support the development of life.
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25 October 2011
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New discoveries hint at the fact that comets have far less carbon on their surfaces and at their cores than initially suspected. Experts say that this knowledge may force a rethinking of the role they attribute to these space bodies in the emergence and subsequent development and evolution of life on Earth.For years,... |
16 December 2010
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According to a research presented December 4 at the 2010 annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), it would appear that the Saturnine moon Titan may have he capability to sustain the formation of biomolecules on its surface. These molecules would resemble the amino-acids, the basic building blocks ... |
15 December 2010
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Metal nanocrystals, carbon nanotubes and semiconducting nanowires are just a few of the amazing, new types of materials that have been produced by nanotechnology in the past few years. They hold enormous potential in the fields of electronics and medicine, among others, but efforts to create new and groundbreaking de... |
8 January 2010
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Animals and insects living at the highest latitudes, either at the North or South Poles, had to be evolutionarily prepared to do so, biologists hypothesized a long time ago. They also proposed that these animals, especially the smaller ones, must have antifreeze molecules inside their bodies, to prevent the water ins... |
24 November 2009
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Scientists were recently able to determine precisely how bacteria repaired their own RNA. This is the second such mechanism identified in any living thing, with the first having been found some time ago, in the T4 phage, a virus that attacks bacteria. The find was made by a team of scientists from the University of I... |
13 October 2009
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Groundbreaking imaging techniques today reveal details of the small-scale world that were never before thought possible. They can image single atoms and structures just nanometers across, but they are notorious for not being able to look inside living molecules. The highly energetic streams of particles they use for ... |
12 October 2009
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Only a few, highly specialized labs in the world today can boast owning biomolecular computers, made entirely from DNA sequences and other biological molecules. They are able to perform complex computations and answer complicated queries, but are also very difficult to work with, which is one of the main reasons why ... |
3 August 2009
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