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Pre-Life Metabolism

It’s a strange title, to be sure, but it’s also truthful – one of the most important components of the

Titan is almost the perfect environment to explore with aerial vehicles, because it has a high density atmosphere with low

We have finally discovered part of the reason behind the stronger than expected magnetic field of the Earth, and as

And they are impressive. It will compete with SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy as a next generation launcher. Source

Life underground has a striking resemblance to the type of life expected to be found on Mars, and lives forever

Despite thinking of comets as existing in a vacuum, they can manage to maintain a very thin atmosphere. And the

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The first humans who ventured onto the Tibetan Plateau faced a brutal high alpine environment. And yet, rather than descend back to

What would life look like on Mars in the future? We don’t know, but we as humans are very willing

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The problem with lithium is that our understanding of the Big Bang tells us that there should be three times

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One of the worst epidemics in human history, a sixteenth-century pestilence that devastated Mexico’s native population, may have been caused