NASA Astrobiology Early Career Collaboration Award — Grok via Astrobiology.com The Astrobiology Early Career Collaboration Awards offer research-related travel support for undergraduate, graduate students, postdocs, and early career scientists. Applicants
Mars InSIght SEIS (Seismic Experiment for the Interior Structure) — NASA (From September 2024) Are subterranean lifeforms viable on Mars? A new interpretation of Martian seismic data by scientists Ikuo
Structure and electrical connectivity in the Rnf complex of Acetobacterium woodii. Credit Kumar et al., 2025 Animals, plants and many other living organisms inhale oxygen to “burn” (technically: oxidize) compounds
Log2 fold change heatmap of the “spaceflight signatures in mice” in 27 datasets with 10 different mouse tissues. Age (Day). Duration (Day). 1,288 up-regulated and 896 down-regulated genes. — Nature
The abstract in PubMed or at the publisher’s site is linked when available and will open in a new window. Richards JT, Mortenson TE, Spern CJ, Mousseau TA, Gooden JL,
Baruch S. Blumberg — NASA/Astrobiology.com Editor’s note (Keith Cowing): Barry Blumberg was one cool dude. I was in on one of the first conversations at NASA Ames when his name
How Titan Maintains Its Atmosphere — SWRI Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better understand how Saturn’s moon Titan can maintain
This illustration depicts a lake of water partially filling Mars’ Gale Crater, receiving runoff from snow melting on the crater’s northern rim. Evidence of ancient streams, deltas and lakes that
In black: enzymes and metabolic pathways inferred to be present in LUCA with at least PP = 0.75, with sampling in both prokaryotic domains. In grey: those inferred in our least-stringent threshold
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