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NAI Feature Stories
NAI Team Seminars Recorded and Available Online
/ May 8NAI Ames Research Center Team Launches New Website
/ May 4Student Astronomers Earn Top Honors in State Science Fair
/ April 28Planetary Science Decadal Survey
/ April 24Elemental Evolution
/ April 15Invisible Yellowstone
/ April 9NPR's Science Friday on Origins of Life and the Universe
/ April 7How Life Shatters Chemistry's Mirror
/ April 6NASA's 21st Annual Planetary Science Summer School
/ April 3Early Oxygen
/ March 28"The State of Astrobiology, 2009" A report from Mary A. Voytek, Senior Scientist for Astrobiology (Interim), NASA Headquarters
/ March 27NAI Public Lecture (and the New York Times) Kick Off 2009 Celebration of Darwin
/ March 13Summer Workshops for Teachers in Astrobiology
/ March 9Kepler's Search for "Alien Earths" Covered by CNN
/ February 25Life in Extreme Environments Educator Conference
/ February 9Biosignatures in Ancient Rocks Workshop Proceedings Now Available
/ January 20A 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 19Evidence for a New Root of the Tree of Life
/ November 10Comet 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 13NASA Predicts Non-Green Plants on Other Planets
/ November 12Astrobiologist Builds Native American Research Laboratory
/ October 25Astrobiology's Pioneers
/ October 15Astrobiology on Science Friday
/ October 11New Website for NAI's University of Wisconsin Team
/ October 10The First Astrobiologist Astronaut?
/ September 27Astrobiology in the Comics
/ September 23Astrobiotechnology Chip Successfully Launched
/ September 19Astrobiology and the Arts
/ September 13The Encyclopedia of Life
/ September 9What Is Life? Definition vs. Theory
/ September 9Exoplanet Water Vapor and Weird Life
/ August 5Hydrocarbons on Saturn's Moon Hyperion
/ August 5Looking for Life in All the Right Places
/ July 29Seeing Our Reflection
/ July 29Astrobiologist Named "Genius Who will Change Your Life"
/ July 19Phoenix Prepares for Flight
/ July 19Oceans from Comets, A How-To
/ July 1NAI Publication Receives Jubilee Award
/ June 20NAI Scientist Receives Award from L'Oréal
/ June 17Earth's Future Glimpsed on Titan
/ June 11MESSENGER Probes Venus' Atmosphere
/ June 6NAI Scientist Receives Presidential Award
/ June 5A Habitable World Around Gliese 581?
/ May 16Astrobiology Magazine's European Edition - France
/ May 16NAI Expands to Include Four New Teams
/ May 8NAI’s Tullis Onstott makes “Time 100”
/ May 2Found: Earth-Like Planet
/ April 30Technology Improves Imaging of Exoplanets
/ April 17NAI Scientist Receives Hazel Barnes Prize
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Summaries of Astrobiology research often with links to scientific journals.
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