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All Research Highlights
Iron Isotope Record Reflects Microbial Metabolism Through Time
/ August 27Silicate Mineralogy on Mars Indicates Wet Past
/ August 27Jack Hills Zircons: New Information About Earth's Earliest Crust
/ August 27Marine Subsurface is a Distinct Microbial Habitat
/ July 24New Extrasolar Planetary System May Be Much Like Our Own
/ July 18Moon Samples Found to Contain Water
/ July 18Phoenix Scrapes 'Almost Perfect' Icy Soil For Analysis
/ July 1Extraterrestrial Nucleobases in the Murchison Meteorite
/ June 25Bright Chunks At Phoenix Lander's Mars Site Must Have Been Ice
/ June 19Seafloor Microbes Abundant and Thriving....An Alternative Cradle for Life?
/ May 28Erosion on Earth and Mars: Mere Seepage or Megaflood?
/ May 28Enzyme's Active Site Revealed
/ May 27Wandering Poles on Europa
/ May 22Organic Haze, Glaciations and Multiple Sulfur Isotopes in the Mid-Archean Era
/ May 9New Round of Exo-Evo Grants Awarded
/ April 27Molybdenum and the Rise of Complex Life
/ April 1Methane and Water Vapor Observed in Atmosphere of Exoplanet
/ March 25Signs of Ocean Beneath Titan's Crust?
/ March 25New Mineral Points the Way for Search for Life on Mars
/ March 20Meteorites a Rich Source for Primordial Soup
/ March 13Detecting Water on Extrasolar Planet Surfaces
/ February 14Rethinking Early Earth Phosphorus Geochemistry
/ February 14Binary Stars in the Orion Nebula
/ November 27A Geobiological Perspective on the Emergence of Animal Life
/ November 13Novel Proteobacteria in Microbial Mats at Loihi Seamount
/ November 13Discovering Earth-like Exoplanets
/ October 10Oxygen in Earth's Early Atmosphere
/ October 10Microbial Population Structures in the Deep Marine Biosphere
/ October 8Oxygen in Earth's Atmosphere Before Great Oxidation Event
/ September 27Martian Ice Ages
/ September 12Subaerial Volcanoes Shift Oxygen Levels on Early Earth
/ August 30Water Vapor Observed in Young Star System
/ August 30New Enzymes in the Laboratory
/ August 16Water Vapor Detected on Extrasolar Planet
/ July 10Chemical Complexity in an Old Star
/ June 27Methane in the Martian Atmosphere
/ June 17Evidence for Ancient Ocean on Mars
/ June 13Extracellular Protein-Metal Aggregates: A New Biosignature?
/ June 13New World Frogs
/ June 6Microbial Populations in Antarctic Permafrost
/ June 5Ancient Organism Verified as Fungus
/ May 1Exoplanets and M Stars
/ April 17Final Assembly of Earth-Like Planets
/ April 16Plants on Other Planets May Not be Green
/ April 10Habitability of Planets Around M Dwarf Stars
/ April 9PAH's Responsible for "Red Glow"
/ April 8A New Model for the Early Ocean
/ March 4Salinity of Europa's Ocean
/ February 26Spectra of Two Extrasolar Planets
/ February 25Biogeochemistry and Oxygenic Photosynthesis
/ February 7Greenhouse Gases on Early Earth Helped Keep It Warm
/ February 6Low Abundance Acidophilic Archea Revealed
/ December 20Snowball Earth and the Origin of Photosynthesis
/ December 20Found: A Hyperthermophilic Nitrogen Fixer
/ December 13Stardust Sample Analysis
/ December 13Direct Observation of Magnetic Field on Tau Bootis
/ December 10Oxygen and Life in the Precambrian
/ November 26Mineral Surfaces and Life
/ November 19Organic Hazes on Early Earth and Titan
/ November 6Romer's Gap Confirmed
/ October 24Microbes of the Deep
/ October 19Exoplanet Weather
/ October 16Photosynthesis in the late Archean
/ October 16Microbial Production of Gases in the Deep Marine Subsurface
/ October 3Exotic Earths
/ September 7Earth's Ancient Atmosphere: the Rise of Oxygen
/ August 23Sulfur Cycling and Snowball Earth
/ August 17Microbial Diversity in the Deep Sea
/ July 31Akilia Revisited
/ July 24Planets Around the Stars
/ July 24Exovegetation!
/ July 4Strategies for Evolutionary Success - Sulfolipids
/ July 4Amino Acids Found in Antarctic Meteorites
/ June 18Carbon Isotope Record from ~2.2 Ga Rocks in the Great Lakes Area
/ June 18B-Pictoris Debris Disk Rich in Carbon Gas
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