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NAI Feature Stories
A Banner Year for Astrobiology in Discover Magazine's Top 100 Stories of 2008
/ January 12Astrobiology Summer Science Experience for Teachers (ASSET)
/ January 12Life in Extreme Environments Educator Conference
/ January 8NAI Scientist Elected AAAS Fellow
/ January 5Elements and Evolution
/ December 5Jill Tarter Receives TED Prize
/ November 25Carbon Dioxide Discovered on Extrasolar Planet
/ November 25New NAI Team at RPI Launches New York Center for Astrobiology
/ November 24NASA's Astrobiology Origins
/ November 24Astrobiology Curriculum Pilot Kicks-Off Maine STEM Initiative
/ November 19Comet Dust Reveals Unexpected Mixing of Solar System Material
/ October 242008 High Lakes Project: From Early Mars to Today’s Earth
/ October 15NASA Selects New Science Teams for Astrobiology Institute
/ October 2XV International Conference on the Origin of Life – a Personal Perspective
/ September 26New 2008 NASA Astrobiology Roadmap Available
/ September 23Molecules in the Atmospheres of Extrasolar Planets - A Workshop in Paris
/ September 19Jill Tarter and Will Wright Talk Gaming, Education, and Evolution in Seed Magazine's Video 'Salon'
/ September 16NASA's Carl Sagan Fellows to Study Extraterrestrial Worlds
/ September 8Washington Post Covers Astrobiology
/ July 21NAI Announces 2008 Director's Discretionary Fund Awards
/ July 17NAI Scientist Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
/ June 25NAI Ames Team Scientists Receive Honors
/ June 4Astrobiologist Discusses Her Highly Cited Work in Astrochemistry
/ June 4NAI Member Receives Sagan Medal
/ May 27NAI Student Poster Competition at AbSciCon 2008
/ April 30The Color of Alien Plants
/ March 25Astrobiology and Atlantis
/ December 11NAI Montana State University Team Releases Website
/ November 14NASA Predicts Non-Green Plants on Other Planets
/ November 12Astrobiologist Builds Native American Research Laboratory
/ October 26Astrobiology's Pioneers
/ October 16Astrobiology on Science Friday
/ October 12New Website for NAI's University of Wisconsin Team
/ October 11The First Astrobiologist Astronaut?
/ September 28Astrobiology in the Comics
/ September 24Astrobiotechnology Chip Successfully Launched
/ September 20Astrobiology and the Arts
/ September 14The Encyclopedia of Life
/ September 10What Is Life? Definition vs. Theory
/ September 10Exoplanet Water Vapor and Weird Life
/ August 6Hydrocarbons on Saturn's Moon Hyperion
/ August 6Looking for Life in All the Right Places
/ July 30Seeing Our Reflection
/ July 30Astrobiologist Named "Genius Who will Change Your Life"
/ July 20Phoenix Prepares for Flight
/ July 20Oceans from Comets, A How-To
/ July 2NAI Publication Receives Jubilee Award
/ June 21NAI Scientist Receives Award from L'Oréal
/ June 18Earth's Future Glimpsed on Titan
/ June 12MESSENGER Probes Venus' Atmosphere
/ June 7NAI Scientist Receives Presidential Award
/ June 6A Habitable World Around Gliese 581?
/ May 17Astrobiology Magazine's European Edition - France
/ May 17NAI Expands to Include Four New Teams
/ May 9NAI’s Tullis Onstott makes “Time 100”
/ May 3Found: Earth-Like Planet
/ May 1Technology Improves Imaging of Exoplanets
/ April 18NAI Scientist Receives Hazel Barnes Prize
/ April 13An Update from "Mars"
/ April 10Lab-On-a-Chip Works Aboard the ISS
/ April 9The Virus Hunters
/ March 28NAI Scientists Honored by American Society for Microbiology
/ March 26NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Images Seas on Titan
/ March 14NAI Graduate Student Selected to Help Plan for Future Mars EVA
/ March 1Astrobiologists Discuss Mars Habitability on NPR
/ February 23Liquid Water on Mars: Is It Still Flowing?
/ January 10Astrobiology and Stardust
/ December 14NAI Researchers Search for Meteorites in Antarctica
/ December 6Earth’s Hidden Biospheres
/ November 6NASA Study Shows Titan and Early Earth Atmospheres are Similar
/ November 6Astrobiology Primer Published!
/ October 31Impact from the Deep
/ October 19A New Book on the Evoution of Earth's Early Atmosphere
/ September 8NAI Welcomes New Director
/ August 15Father of Earth-formation models, Carnegie's George Wetherill, dies at 80
/ July 24
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