Oxygen ‘Oases’ Led to All Life on Earth
Two and a half billion years ago the atmosphere contained almost no oxygen, Arizona State University scientists say, and life as we know it was not...
NASA: 4-Billion-Year-Old Antarctica Meteorite Previews Biology and Life on Mars (Today’s ‘Most Popular’)
Emboldened by the discovery of an ancient ocean and warm-water lakes on early Mars as well as the discovery of biologically-produced methane in the atmosphere of...
NASA Spacecraft to Dive into Titan’s Atmosphere to Sniff for Life
NASA’s Cassini’s spacecraft will take a deep plunge through the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon, Titan, this week. The altitude for the upcoming Titan flyby, dubbed “T71,”...
Could the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Serve as a Quantum Computer?
MIT scientist Seth Lloyd proposes that information is a quantifiable physical value, as much as mass or motion -that any physical system–a river, you, the universe–is...
Image of the Day: The Great Blue Hole
The Great Blue Hole, a World Heritage site, is a large underwater sinkhole off the coast of Belize. Jacques Cousteau took the Calypso and his one-man submarines into...

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