Hot super-Earths could host life after all Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
Massive, rocky worlds called 'super-Earths' – even those orbiting searingly close to their stars – may provide the right conditions for life, recent research suggests.
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Hundreds of Possible Life-Sustaining Planets in Milky Way Posted: 10 months ago by mahler87
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.
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Black Holes May Fill the Universe with Seeds of Life Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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Google gives online life to Life mag's photos Posted: 2 weeks ago by Bornbad
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.
*this is great*
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Half Life 2: Episode Two increased game duration Posted: 2 years ago by whi73rav3n
Apparently each episode of Half Life 2 will be longer then the previous one.
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What will life be like in 2008 Posted: 8 months ago by doggylives
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.
Some of it's pretty accurate actually.
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'Twilight zones' on scorched planets could support life Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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Virtual Terror Strikes Second Life Posted: 2 years ago by MaskedWriter
EVERYBODY VIRTUALLY PANIC
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Life Magazine to stop publishing print edition, again. Posted: 2 years ago by suebe
Life's collection of 10 million images will be available online, with "the most important collection of imagery covering the events and people of the 20th century" available for free for personal use.
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Prize established for creating planet's first artificial life form Posted: 2 years ago by michelleroberts
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 "Break the Carbon Barrier". With mega-universities and companies racing to create nonbiological life, now is the time for such a clearing house.
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Space Rocks Could Reseed Life on Earth Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
Asteroid and comet impacts on Earth can cause catastrophic extinction events. They can also bring life back, new research shows.
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Life on Titan? Posted: 3 months ago by BernardBlack
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...
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Life on mars??? Posted: 11 months ago by ash0283
Life on mars, captured on film by the mars rover!!!
Video version of AutumnLotus' post here for those of you who don't feel like reading.
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Venus Express searching for life – on Earth Posted: 2 months ago by AutumnLotus
Scientists using ESA’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.
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Dying star generates the stuff of life Posted: 1 year ago by DrNothing
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.
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Venus Comes To Life At Wavelengths Invisible To Human Eyes Posted: 52 minutes ago by AutumnLotus
A pale yellow dot to the human eye, Earth’s twin planet comes to life in the ultraviolet and the infrared. New images taken by instruments on board ESA’s Venus Express provide insight into the turbulent atmosphere of our neighbouring planet.
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Exploding veggie kiev scars woman for life Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A woman fears she has been scarred for life after a vegetarian kiev exploded in her face. Jessica Morgan, 28, was about to tuck into the £1.68 kiev when it blew up, spraying boiling hot liquid over her face and shoulder.
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Chianti: Secret to Long Life, Says Ancient Recipe Posted: 2 months ago by AutumnLotus
The elixir of life may be a concoction of honey, cherries and secret herbs infused in a full Chianti wine, according to a centuries-old recipe discovered in one of Italy's oldest pharmacies.
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7 Year Old Girl Takes Six Bullets to Save Mother's Life Posted: 8 months ago by karenben
Seliethia Parker always saw her role as protector for her 7-year-old daughter, Alexis Goggins. But it was Alexis who ended up saving her mother's life by using her little body to shield her mom from a fusillade of bullets.
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2 explosive evolutionary events shaped early history of multicellular life Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
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 "Avalon Explosion."
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Signs of Life Found Inside Rock Salt Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
Now, a team of researchers working in New Mexico has found traces of life inside salty halite crystals. The discovery is "an invaluable resource for understanding the evolutionary record [of Earth] over a geological time frame."
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