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Finding Earth’s Twin: No Easy Task
/ March 2Earthscope – Opportunities for Interdisciplinary Research
/ February 27Kepler's Search for "Alien Earths" Covered by CNN
/ February 25Evolution of the Modern Nitrogen Cycle
/ February 23Alien Safari Part 4: Countdown to Alien Life
/ February 23Cycling Nitrogen
/ February 22Unlocking the Combination
/ February 18Assembling the Tree of Life
/ February 18Alien Safari Part 3: Technology Worlds
/ February 16Protocells Bridging Nonliving and Living Matter
/ February 13Echoes of Extinction
/ February 13A Natural Iron Fertilization Mechanism from the Deep Sea
/ February 10Life in Extreme Environments Educator Conference
/ February 9Alien Safari Part 2: Life Above and Below
/ February 9The Science of NAI - Overview Presentations Available as Podcasts
/ February 6NSF Announces New Ice-Core Drilling Agreements for Polar Research
/ February 5Oldest Evidence for Animals in the Fossil Record
/ February 4Alien Safari, Part I: Slime Worlds
/ February 2Open Questions on the Origins of Life
/ January 30Great Oxidation Event Got Earlier Start
/ January 29Goldschmidt Session on Exobiology
/ January 29Opportunities in Microbial Genome Sequencing
/ January 26Life in Transition
/ January 22Biosignatures in Ancient Rocks Workshop Proceedings Now Available
/ January 20Hiding from Jupiter's Radiation
/ January 19Replicating RNA
/ January 16Martian Methane Reveals the Red Planet is not a Dead Planet
/ January 15Methane-Spewing Martians?
/ January 15A Banner Year for Astrobiology in Discover Magazine's Top 100 Stories of 2008
/ January 12Astrobiology Summer Science Experience for Teachers (ASSET)
/ January 12NAI Scientist Elected AAAS Fellow
/ January 5Examining a SLIce of the Arctic
/ January 5Astrobiology Top 10
/ December 24Planets Form in the Eye of the Storm
/ December 16ENDURANCE: Follow the Blog
/ December 16Unmasking Europa
/ December 15Follow the Elements
/ December 12Exploring Europa on Earth
/ December 8MSL Delayed
/ December 7Elements and Evolution
/ December 5Extreme Science on Earth's Highest Lakes
/ December 2Marco Polo and Meteorites
/ December 2Jill Tarter Receives TED Prize
/ November 25Carbon Dioxide Discovered on Extrasolar Planet
/ November 25Buried Martian Glaciers
/ November 25New NAI Team at RPI Launches New York Center for Astrobiology
/ November 24NASA's Astrobiology Origins
/ November 24Astrobiology in New Scientist
/ November 24Baking the Rover is Not an Option
/ November 20Astrobiology Curriculum Pilot Kicks-Off Maine STEM Initiative
/ November 19Carbonate Conundrum
/ November 17Seeing a Distant Planet
/ November 15Earth's Mineral Evolution
/ November 14A Divining Rod for Mars
/ November 13Life's Boiling Point
/ November 12Evidence for a New Root of the Tree of Life
/ November 10On the Origins of Biological Homochirality
/ November 10Titan's Triple Threat
/ November 7Cliffbot goes Climbing
/ November 3MRO Reveals Details of a Wetter Mars
/ October 30Titan is Electric
/ October 29Seeing Life in Viruses
/ October 27Comet Dust Reveals Unexpected Mixing of Solar System Material
/ October 24Magnetic Death Star
/ October 24Shooting Life on Mars
/ October 17Miller-Urey Revisited
/ October 16"Alien" Water Bears Amaze Scientists
/ October 162008 High Lakes Project: From Early Mars to Today’s Earth
/ October 15Searching for Earth Life, from Venus
/ October 15The Sun is Setting on Phoenix
/ October 12Measuring the Weight of Ancient Air
/ October 10Life Without the Sun
/ October 10Studying a Giant Planet
/ October 9The Ions and Isoptopes of Enceladus
/ October 8Mirror-Image Clues to Life's Origins
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