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Kepler's Search for "Alien Earths" Covered by CNN
/ February 25Evolution of the Modern Nitrogen Cycle
/ February 23A Natural Iron Fertilization Mechanism from the Deep Sea
/ February 10Life in Extreme Environments Educator Conference
/ February 9The Science of NAI - Overview Presentations Available as Podcasts
/ February 6Oldest Evidence for Animals in the Fossil Record
/ February 4Great Oxidation Event Got Earlier Start
/ January 29Biosignatures in Ancient Rocks Workshop Proceedings Now Available
/ January 20Martian Methane Reveals the Red Planet is not a Dead Planet
/ January 15A Banner Year for Astrobiology in Discover Magazine's Top 100 Stories of 2008
/ January 12Astrobiology Summer Science Experience for Teachers (ASSET)
/ January 12Summer Workshops for Teachers in Astrobiology
/ January 10Life in Extreme Environments Educator Conference
/ January 8NAI Scientist Elected AAAS Fellow
/ January 5Follow the Elements
/ December 12Elements and Evolution
/ December 5Extreme Science on Earth's Highest Lakes
/ December 2Jill 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 19Search for Life Seminar
/ November 17Origin of Life Seminar
/ November 17Extreme Life Seminar
/ November 13Evidence for a New Root of the Tree of Life
/ November 10NAI Director's Seminar: Jack Szostak, "What can we Learn About the Origin of Life from Efforts to Design an Artificial Cell?"
/ October 27Comet Dust Reveals Unexpected Mixing of Solar System Material
/ October 24Miller-Urey Revisited
/ October 16In-Person Meeting
/ October 16In-Person Meeting
/ October 16Videocon
/ October 16Videocon
/ October 162008 High Lakes Project: From Early Mars to Today’s Earth
/ October 15Life Without the Sun
/ October 10Mirror-Image Clues to Life's Origins
/ October 8NASA Selects New Science Teams for Astrobiology Institute
/ October 2"Little Bang" triggered Solar System formation
/ October 2XV International Conference on the Origin of Life – a Personal Perspective
/ September 26New 2008 NASA Astrobiology Roadmap Available
/ September 23NAI Director's Seminar: Norm Sleep, "Habitability of Superearths"
/ September 22NAI Launches FAR Seminar Series on October 6th
/ September 19Habitability Seminar
/ September 19Analogue Research and Instrumentation Seminar
/ September 19Prebiotic Chemistry Seminar
/ September 19The Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research in Astrobiology
/ September 19The Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research in Astrobiology
/ September 19Early Earth Primed for Later RNA and DNA Production
/ September 19Molecules in the Atmospheres of Extrasolar Planets - A Workshop in Paris
/ September 19Cyanobacterial Biomarkers in Ancient Rocks
/ September 19Evolution of the Gut
/ 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 8Iron 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 24Washington Post Covers Astrobiology
/ July 21New Extrasolar Planetary System May Be Much Like Our Own
/ July 18Moon Samples Found to Contain Water
/ July 18NAI Announces 2008 Director's Discretionary Fund Awards
/ July 17NAI Scientist Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
/ June 25Extraterrestrial Nucleobases in the Murchison Meteorite
/ June 25NAI Twitters and Tweets
/ June 25NAI Ames Team Scientists Receive Honors
/ June 4Astrobiologist Discusses Her Highly Cited Work in Astrochemistry
/ June 4Seafloor 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 27NAI Member Receives Sagan Medal
/ May 27Wandering Poles on Europa
/ May 22Chris Impey receives ASP Richard H. Emmons Award
/ May 12Jim Kasting elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Geochemical Society
/ May 12Organic Haze, Glaciations and Multiple Sulfur Isotopes in the Mid-Archean Era
/ May 9NAI Student Poster Competition at AbSciCon 2008
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