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MSNBC
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Scientists have found signs that water may once have gurgled up through the Martian soil in hydrothermal vents similar to those in Yellowstone National Park.
The site of these proposed vents could possibly contain preserved traces of ancient Martian li..
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BBC News
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An Edinburgh scientist's study of a 15 million-year-old lake buried under the ice of Antarctica could yield clues on climate change and the origins of life.
Edinburgh University researcher Neil Ross is part of a four-man team camped on an Antarctic ice..
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Physorg
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The effort, called the Encyclopedia of Life, will include species descriptions, pictures, maps, videos, sound, sightings by amateurs, and links to entire genomes and scientific journal papers. Its first pages of information will be shown Wednesday in Wash..
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SF Gate
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A rocky planet not much larger than Earth has been detected orbiting a star close to our own neighborhood in the Milky Way, and the European astronomers who found it say it lies within the star's "habitable zone," where life could exist -- possibly in oce..
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BBC News
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A Japanese man has survived for 24 days in cold weather and without food and water by falling into a state of "hibernation", his doctor has said...
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Daily Mail
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Striking new images of the Red Planet have raised hopes life could be found on Mars after all...
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MSNBC
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Nobody knows how life on Earth began, but the primordial soup likely got a lot of its ingredients from space.
Scientists have discovered concentrations of amino acids in two meteorites that are more than 10 times higher than levels previously measured..
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BBC News
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Unique marine life in Antarctica will be at risk from an invasion of sharks, crabs and other predators if global warming continues, scientists warn.
Crabs are poised to return to the Antarctic shallows, threatening creatures such as giant sea spiders a..
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BBC News
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An important step has been taken in the quest to create a synthetic lifeform.
A US team reports in Science magazine how it built the entire DNA code of a common bacterium in the laboratory using blocks of genetic material.
The group hopes eventually..
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BBC News
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Climate change is having a major impact on Britain's coast, the seas around the coast, and the life in those seas, a government-sponsored report concludes.
The Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) says seas are becoming more violent, causi..
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BBC News
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Public consultation has begun on proposals to extend protection for marine life around Britain.
Seven areas, totalling 10,000sq km (4,000sq miles) of sea, have been earmarked as sites for the UK's first offshore Special Areas of Conservation.
They i..
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BBC News
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Animals may age faster depending on how much competition there is for food in their early life, according to a study.
The Edinburgh and Cambridge university research reveals that animals born when competition for food is intense tend to age more quickl..
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MSNBC
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Physician-scientist Wilhelm Reich, best known for his claims of a cosmic life force associated with sexual orgasm, died in federal prison, and the government burned tons of his books and other publications and destroyed his equipment.
But half a centur..
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MSNBC
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U.S. and Puerto Rican archaeologists say they have found the best-preserved pre-Columbian site in the Caribbean, which could shed light on virtually every aspect of Indian life in the region, from sacred rituals to eating habits.
The archaeologists bel..
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BBC News
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A rock quarried on Orkney was blasted into space to find out if meteorites could carry primitive life from one planet to another.
One theory being tested is whether life could have arrived on Earth from Mars.
University of Aberdeen experts had the r..
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BBC News
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The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life.
Funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen the finished array will have 350 6m antennas and will be one of the world's largest.
The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) wi..
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BBC News
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A strategy on how to better conserve Scotland's bugs and insects is to be drawn up for the first time.
Conservation trust Bug Life and entomologists will meet near Perth to discuss the issues affecting everything from bees to snails.
Craig Macadam o..
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Science Daily
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Recent probes inside comets show it is overwhelmingly likely that life began in space, according to a new paper by Cardiff University scientists.
Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe and colleagues at the University's Centre for Astrobiology have long argu..
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BBC News
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Ancient Rome has been brought back to life through a unique digital reconstruction project, said to be the world's biggest computer simulation.
An international team of architects, archaeologists and experts spent 10 years working on a real-time 3D mod..
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BBC News
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Scientists working to build a life form from scratch have applied to patent the broad method they plan to use to create their "synthetic organism".
Dr Craig Venter, the man who led the private sector effort to sequence the human genome, has been workin..
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