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Clavascidium lacinulatum, or brown stipplescale lichen, is a common sight in the Mojave Desert – credit: Bob O’Kennan via iNaturalist Lichen from the Mojave Desert can survive, and replicate, under

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Impact on a 3 Gyr-old Earth-sized planet with a small core Rc = 0.2R and L = 25 km (a) and 100 km (b). In each panel, the left half

A synthetic habitat could be built with the help of a self-growing technology that harnesses local resources and microbes to autonomously form structures on the Red Planet. Credit: Kaitlyn Johnson/Texas

NASA’s Perseverance rover uses an abrading bit to get below the surface of a rocky outcrop nicknamed “Kenmore” on June 10. The eight images that make up this video were

NASA’s Webb imaged a possible planet with a mass similar to Saturn orbiting the star TWA 7. Light from the star has been subtracted from this image to reveal the

Graphical Abstract Translation of symbols in one chemical language into another defined genetics. Yet, the co-linearity of codons and amino acids is so commonplace an idea that few even ask

Graphical abstract — Cell Every day, our bodies perform around 330 billion cell divisions to keep us alive and functioning. These divisions rely on the cell cycle, which has been

Press Release June 24, 2025 MEPAG Search for Life Part 1: Tuesday July 8th, 8am PDT/11am EDT/5pm CESTPart 2: Tuesday August 5th – Thursday August 7th, 8am PDT/11am EDT/5pm CEST

Injection-and-recovery experiment performed to test the detectability of extra planets in the system using the tow TESS sectors described in Sect 5.3. The red star marks the position of TOI-1846