Tag: extremophiles
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Is there life on Maaaaaars?
Even with our best laboratory equipment, we can’t always identify life on Earth, where we know it exists. This means we can’t answer the question about life on Mars.
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Snakebots, desert plants, and self-assembling space modules: the world of biomimicry
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] “Life, uh, finds a way”—Applying lessons from evolution to go to Mars Biomimicry looks to living organisms to create the future of sustainable engineering. For Ars Technica: As philosopher-mathematician…
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Can we recognize life if we see it on other worlds?
Back in June, I traveled to a remote lake in British Columbia to visit a NASA research site. That trip resulted in a long article I wrote for Mosaic, which roamed over a wide range of topics: what a Canadian lake has to do with life on Mars, the difficulty of identifying life on other…
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