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NAI Research Highlights
Oxygen and Life in the Precambrian
/ November 27Mineral Surfaces and Life
/ November 20Organic Hazes on Early Earth and Titan
/ November 7Romer's Gap Confirmed
/ October 25Microbes of the Deep
/ October 20Exoplanet Weather
/ October 17Photosynthesis in the late Archean
/ October 17Microbial Production of Gases in the Deep Marine Subsurface
/ October 4Exotic Earths
/ September 8Earth's Ancient Atmosphere: the Rise of Oxygen
/ August 24Sulfur Cycling and Snowball Earth
/ August 18Microbial Diversity in the Deep Sea
/ August 1Akilia Revisited
/ July 25Planets Around the Stars
/ July 25Exovegetation!
/ July 5Strategies for Evolutionary Success - Sulfolipids
/ July 5Amino Acids Found in Antarctic Meteorites
/ June 19Carbon Isotope Record from ~2.2 Ga Rocks in the Great Lakes Area
/ June 19B-Pictoris Debris Disk Rich in Carbon Gas
/ June 14Earlier Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis - Surviving Snowball Earth
/ June 14Biodiversity Rocks the Cover of Nature
/ June 7Super-Earths Around M Dwarf Stars - Competing Theories
/ June 7Chemical Energy for Life on Early Earth and Mars
/ June 6Abiogenic Explanation for Methane on Mars
/ May 31Energy Conservation: Important Now, Important Then?
/ May 31Ancient Archea, Novel Protein
/ May 18Biodiversity in Hypersaline Mats
/ May 18Interstellar Chemistry Record
/ May 9A History of Venom
/ May 3Microbial Biodiversity in Cuatro Cienegas
/ April 19Timelines for the Evolution of Cyanobacteria
/ April 18Imaging the Unseen
/ April 13Modeling Disk-Averaged Spectra of Earth
/ April 7A Window into the Subsurface Microbial Population
/ February 28Life in the Deep Subseafloor
/ February 22Life in the Landscape?
/ January 30Surviving STS-107
/ January 12Theoretical Planets Around M-Dwarfs
/ January 12Alternative Model for Diagenesis of Meridiani Bedrock
/ December 21Update on the Human-Chimpanzee Divergence
/ December 19Mars Rover Opportunity and Rio Tinto
/ December 16Microbial Sulfur Disproportionation and Accelerated Oxygenation at Earth's Surface
/ December 7Further Studies on the Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen
/ November 29The Evolution of Reptiles and Astrobiology
/ November 28Planets for Brown Dwarfs?
/ October 20More on the Rise of Earth's Oxygen Levels
/ October 17The Origin of Planetary Impactors in the Inner Solar System
/ October 13Rise in Earth's Oxygen Levels
/ October 12Astrobiology: The Study of the Living Universe
/ September 27Dust Around an Old Star?
/ September 27Preparing for TPF: Disk-Averaged Synthetic Spectra of Mars
/ August 17Shark Bay Stromatolites Revealed
/ August 17The Enigma of the Martian Soil
/ August 5A Solar Analogue Explored
/ July 20A Cause for Methane on Mars
/ July 19Characterizing the Early Solar Nebula
/ July 8Linking the Rise in Atmospheric Oxygen with Paleoproterozoic Glaciations
/ June 15Microbial Ecology of Hot Spring Communities in Yellowstone
/ June 9End of Permian Extinction Theory Draws Technical Comments
/ June 9Could Impacts Have Caused Flooding on Mars?
/ May 16Increased H2S in the Deep Ocean - Bad News for Life?
/ May 16A Mild, Habitable Hadean?
/ May 9Teasing Out an Acid Mine Biofilm Microbial Community
/ May 9Uncertain Object Orbiting Brown Dwarf Confirmed as Giant Planet
/ May 1New Endolithic Microbial Community at Yellowstone
/ April 25Finding a Second Sample of Life on Earth?
/ April 25A Deeper Look Into "Great Dying" Theory
/ April 14New Study Implies More Hydrogen In Early Earth Atmosphere Than Previously Thought
/ April 7Eventual Renewal of Frozen Worlds?
/ March 28
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