<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Hot super-Earths could host life after all : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/"/><tagline>Hot super-Earths could host life after all : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-12-05T13:03:34+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Hot super-Earths could host life after all]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/69054/1/" /><id>69054</id><summary><![CDATA[Hot super-Earths could host life after all]]></summary><issued>2008-07-17T09:25:59+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-17T09:25:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Massive, rocky worlds called 'super-Earths' &#8211; even those orbiting searingly close to their stars &#8211; may provide the right conditions for life, recent research suggests.]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;margin-bottom:-20px'><SCRIPT src="/ads/adsense.js" type=text/javascript></SCRIPT>
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<entry><title><![CDATA[Hundreds of Possible Life-Sustaining Planets in Milky Way]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/50988/1/" /><id>50988</id><summary><![CDATA[Hundreds of Possible Life-Sustaining Planets in Milky Way]]></summary><issued>2008-02-17T21:07:50+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-17T21:07:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Rocky planets, possibly with conditions suitable for life, may be more common than previously thought in our galaxy, a study has found. New evidence suggests more than half the Sun-like stars in the Milky Way could have similar planetary systems.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Black Holes May Fill the Universe with Seeds of Life]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/17414/1/" /><id>17414</id><summary><![CDATA[Black Holes May Fill the Universe with Seeds of Life]]></summary><issued>2007-04-22T06:02:24+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-22T06:02:24+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[New research shows that black holes are not the ultimate destroyers that are often portrayed in popular culture. Instead, warm gas escaping from the clutches of enormous black holes could be one source of the chemical elements that make life possible.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Half Life 2: Episode Two increased game duration]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/12909/1/" /><id>12909</id><summary><![CDATA[Half Life 2: Episode Two increased game duration]]></summary><issued>2007-03-12T12:05:13+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-12T12:05:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Apparently each episode of Half Life 2 will be longer then the previous one.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Google gives online life to Life mag's photos]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/arts/l/82253/1/" /><id>82253</id><summary><![CDATA[Google gives online life to Life mag's photos]]></summary><issued>2008-11-19T01:37:45+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-19T01:37:45+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.<br/>*this is great*]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[What will life be like in 2008]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/55838/1/" /><id>55838</id><summary><![CDATA[What will life be like in 2008]]></summary><issued>2008-03-26T12:22:53+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-26T12:22:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[On November 18, 1968 a writer envisions super cars speeding around domed, climatized cities at 300 miles-per-hour and other fantastic future predictions of What Life Will Be Like in the Year 2008. <br/><br/>Some of it's pretty accurate actually.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA['Twilight zones' on scorched planets could support life]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43858/1/" /><id>43858</id><summary><![CDATA['Twilight zones' on scorched planets could support life]]></summary><issued>2007-12-11T09:03:40+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-11T09:03:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Rocky extrasolar planets thought to be half frozen and half scorched might instead rock back and forth, creating large swaths of twilight with temperatures suitable for life.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Prize established for creating planet's first artificial life form]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10156/1/" /><id>10156</id><summary><![CDATA[Prize established for creating planet's first artificial life form]]></summary><issued>2007-02-05T19:38:19+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-05T19:38:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The purpose of the A-PRIZE is to put development of artificial life forms in the open where it should be. Today, many efforts at developing artificial life are not well publicized. The A-PRIZE will serve as a clearing house for information about the race to &quot;Break the Carbon Barrier&quot;. With mega-universities and companies racing to create nonbiological life, now is the time for such a clearing house.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Virtual Terror Strikes Second Life]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/11665/1/" /><id>11665</id><summary><![CDATA[Virtual Terror Strikes Second Life]]></summary><issued>2007-02-26T13:41:58+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-26T13:41:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[EVERYBODY VIRTUALLY PANIC]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Life Magazine to stop publishing print edition, again.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/14191/1/" /><id>14191</id><summary><![CDATA[Life Magazine to stop publishing print edition, again.]]></summary><issued>2007-03-26T16:51:39+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-26T16:51:39+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Life's collection of 10 million images will be available <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.life.com/Life/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">online,</a> with &quot;the most important collection of imagery covering the events and people of the 20th century&quot; available for free for personal use.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Venus Express searching for life &#8211; on Earth]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/79472/1/" /><id>79472</id><summary><![CDATA[Venus Express searching for life &#8211; on Earth]]></summary><issued>2008-10-14T21:39:25+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-14T21:39:25+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Scientists using ESA&#8217;s Venus Express are trying to observe whether Earth is habitable. Silly, you might think, when we know that Earth is richly stocked with life. In fact, far from being a pointless exercise, Venus Express is paving the way for an exciting new era in astronomy.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Space Rocks Could Reseed Life on Earth]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/61938/1/" /><id>61938</id><summary><![CDATA[Space Rocks Could Reseed Life on Earth]]></summary><issued>2008-05-15T10:05:46+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-15T10:05:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Asteroid and comet impacts on Earth can cause catastrophic extinction events. They can also bring life back, new research shows.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Venus Comes To Life At Wavelengths Invisible To Human Eyes]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/83686/1/" /><id>83686</id><summary><![CDATA[Venus Comes To Life At Wavelengths Invisible To Human Eyes]]></summary><issued>2008-12-05T11:48:22+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-05T11:48:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A pale yellow dot to the human eye, Earth&#8217;s twin planet comes to life in the ultraviolet and the infrared. New images taken by instruments on board ESA&#8217;s Venus Express provide insight into the turbulent atmosphere of our neighbouring planet.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Life on mars???]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/48257/1/" /><id>48257</id><summary><![CDATA[Life on mars???]]></summary><issued>2008-01-24T16:35:00+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-24T16:35:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Life on mars, captured on film by the mars rover!!!<br/><br/>Video version of <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/science/astronomy/l/48027/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">AutumnLotus' post</a> here for those of you who don't feel like reading.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Life on Titan?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/73425/1/" /><id>73425</id><summary><![CDATA[Life on Titan?]]></summary><issued>2008-08-24T20:05:44+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-24T20:05:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Titan joins the growing list of places in this solar system which could theoretically support life. Mars and Europa - even our moon are some of the other possibilities. When you look at some of the places on Earth, places that are more inhospitable than these places you have to wonder...]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Dying star generates the stuff of life]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25428/1/" /><id>25428</id><summary><![CDATA[Dying star generates the stuff of life]]></summary><issued>2007-06-27T22:03:41+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-27T22:03:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[One of the largest and most luminous stars in our galaxy is a surprisingly prolific building site for complex molecules important to life on Earth, new measurements reveal.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Sweet molecule could lead us to alien life]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/82992/1/" /><id>82992</id><summary><![CDATA[Sweet molecule could lead us to alien life]]></summary><issued>2008-11-27T09:18:56+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-27T09:18:56+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Scientists have detected an organic sugar molecule that is directly linked to the origin of life, in a region of our galaxy where habitable planets could exist.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[2 explosive evolutionary events shaped early history of multicellular life]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/45976/1/" /><id>45976</id><summary><![CDATA[2 explosive evolutionary events shaped early history of multicellular life]]></summary><issued>2008-01-04T00:26:39+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-04T00:26:39+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Scientists have known for some time that most major groups of complex animals appeared in the fossils record during the Cambrian Explosion, a seemingly rapid evolutionary event that occurred 542 million years ago. Now paleontologists have identified another explosive evolutionary event that occurred about 33 million years earlier among macroscopic life forms unrelated to the Cambrian animals. They dubbed this earlier event the &quot;Avalon Explosion.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Details about life origins explained.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/10698/1/" /><id>10698</id><summary><![CDATA[Details about life origins explained.]]></summary><issued>2007-02-13T07:17:30+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-13T07:17:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[You know creationists and how they &quot;prove&quot; that life could not exist at random ? Well, this guy explains in detail pretty much everything about the origins of life.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Precursor of Life Molecules Found Around Star]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/46400/1/" /><id>46400</id><summary><![CDATA[Precursor of Life Molecules Found Around Star]]></summary><issued>2008-01-08T11:20:36+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-08T11:20:36+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Astronomers have found the first signature of complex organic molecules in the dust cloud around a distant star, suggesting that these building blocks of life may be a common feature of planetary systems.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Scientists discover signs of ancient life on Mars]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/55623/1/" /><id>55623</id><summary><![CDATA[Scientists discover signs of ancient life on Mars]]></summary><issued>2008-03-25T07:58:16+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-25T07:58:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[For the first time, satellite imagery reveals thick Martian salt deposits scattered across the planet's southern surface, which one planetary scientist claims could be sites of ancient life. The mats of sodium chloride &#8212; the same taste-enhancing mineral found on your kitchen table &#8212; serve as more evidence of Mars' watery past, and researchers think the briney pools that made them could have been hospitable to life.]]></content></entry></feed>