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Science May 05

What a massive solar flare on a nearby star could mean for alien life

By R. O. Parke Loyd, The Conversation

Science Sep 14

Venus might host life, new discovery suggests

The unexpected atmospheric detection of phosphine, a smelly gas made by microbes on Earth, could spark a revolution in astrobiology…

By Adam Mann, Scientific American

Science Aug 15

A fluorescence micrograph of Caenorhabditis elegans, a free-living transparent nematode (roundworm), about 1 millimeter in length. Image by heitipaves/via Adobe Stock
These tiny worms can survive forces 400,000 times stronger than Earth’s gravity

New findings give some weight to the idea that life was blasted here from another planet.

By Katherine Kornei, Scientific American

Science Jul 25

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Life on Mars? Watery new discovery raises tantalizing possibilities

Scientists have finally found for the first time a large watery reservoir beneath the southern ice cap of Mars. Radar suggests it is more than 12 miles wide and similar in some ways to lakes found beneath the Greenland and…

By Miles O'Brien

Science Sep 28

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Where there’s water on Earth, there’s life. Is the same true on Mars?

NASA has found evidence of liquid water on Mars. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien joins Judy Woodruff to discuss the inevitable question: does this mean there could be some form of life on the red planet?…

By PBS News Hour

Jul 20

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To find life in the universe, a new initiative to help us hear the signals

By PBS News Hour

Are we alone in the universe? A new project called the Breakthrough Initiative may help scientists like Stephen Hawking get closer to the answer. Tech investor Yuri Milner pledged $100 million to help survey one million of the closest stars…

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