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NAI Research Highlights
Iron Isotope Record Reflects Microbial Metabolism Through Time
Silicate Mineralogy on Mars Indicates Wet Past
Jack Hills Zircons: New Information About Earth's Earliest Crust
Marine Subsurface is a Distinct Microbial Habitat
New Extrasolar Planetary System May Be Much Like Our Own
Moon Samples Found to Contain Water
Extraterrestrial Nucleobases in the Murchison Meteorite
Seafloor Microbes Abundant and Thriving....An Alternative Cradle for Life?
Erosion on Earth and Mars: Mere Seepage or Megaflood?
Enzyme's Active Site Revealed
Wandering Poles on Europa
Organic Haze, Glaciations and Multiple Sulfur Isotopes in the Mid-Archean Era
Methane and Water Vapor Observed in Atmosphere of Exoplanet
Meteorites a Rich Source for Primordial Soup
Detecting Water on Extrasolar Planet Surfaces
Rethinking Early Earth Phosphorus Geochemistry
Binary Stars in the Orion Nebula
A Geobiological Perspective on the Emergence of Animal Life
Novel Proteobacteria in Microbial Mats at Loihi Seamount
Discovering Earth-like Exoplanets
Oxygen in Earth's Early Atmosphere
Microbial Population Structures in the Deep Marine Biosphere
Oxygen in Earth's Atmosphere Before Great Oxidation Event
Martian Ice Ages
Subaerial Volcanoes Shift Oxygen Levels on Early Earth
Water Vapor Observed in Young Star System
New Enzymes in the Laboratory
Water Vapor Detected on Extrasolar Planet
Chemical Complexity in an Old Star
Methane in the Martian Atmosphere
Evidence for Ancient Ocean on Mars
Extracellular Protein-Metal Aggregates: A New Biosignature?
New World Frogs
Microbial Populations in Antarctic Permafrost
Ancient Organism Verified as Fungus
Exoplanets and M Stars
Final Assembly of Earth-Like Planets
Plants on Other Planets May Not be Green
Habitability of Planets Around M Dwarf Stars
PAH's Responsible for "Red Glow"
A New Model for the Early Ocean
Salinity of Europa's Ocean
Spectra of Two Extrasolar Planets
Biogeochemistry and Oxygenic Photosynthesis
Greenhouse Gases on Early Earth Helped Keep It Warm
Low Abundance Acidophilic Archea Revealed
Snowball Earth and the Origin of Photosynthesis
Found: A Hyperthermophilic Nitrogen Fixer
Stardust Sample Analysis
Direct Observation of Magnetic Field on Tau Bootis
Oxygen and Life in the Precambrian
Mineral Surfaces and Life
Organic Hazes on Early Earth and Titan
Romer's Gap Confirmed
Microbes of the Deep
Exoplanet Weather
Photosynthesis in the late Archean
Microbial Production of Gases in the Deep Marine Subsurface
Exotic Earths
Earth's Ancient Atmosphere: the Rise of Oxygen
Sulfur Cycling and Snowball Earth
Microbial Diversity in the Deep Sea
Akilia Revisited
Planets Around the Stars
Exovegetation!
Strategies for Evolutionary Success - Sulfolipids
Amino Acids Found in Antarctic Meteorites
Carbon Isotope Record from ~2.2 Ga Rocks in the Great Lakes Area
B-Pictoris Debris Disk Rich in Carbon Gas
Earlier Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis - Surviving Snowball Earth
Biodiversity Rocks the Cover of Nature
Super-Earths Around M Dwarf Stars - Competing Theories
Chemical Energy for Life on Early Earth and Mars
Abiogenic Explanation for Methane on Mars
Energy Conservation: Important Now, Important Then?
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