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- A Search for Alien Life Begins in Earth’s Oldest Desert https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/searching-life-martian-landscape/576628/ 13 comments
- Mark Zuckerberg, Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking to begin $100 million search for alien life on a nearby Earth-like planet. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3765291/mark-zuckerberg-yuri-milner-stephen-hawking-begin-100-million-search-alien-life-nearby-earth-like-planet.html 158 comments worldnews
- How Did Life Begin? - The Story Of Earth And Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feXyXKpHdrc 12 comments space
- How did life begin on earth? http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=how-did-life-begin-on-earth-2010-06-29 23 comments science
- Humankind beginning to destabilise Earth's life support system http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/01/15/humans-now-undermining-planet-report 8 comments worldnews
- Life on Earth's beginnings was nothing but slime for a 'boring billion' years. http://www.utas.edu.au/latest-news/utas-homepage-news/evolution-stuck-in-slime-for-a-billion-years 6 comments science
- Ancient asteroids kept on coming - Two-billion-year barrage hit Earth when life was beginning http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-asteroids-kept-on-coming-1.10504 4 comments science
- As Climate Warms, a Rearrangement of World’s Plant Life Looms: Previous periods of rapid warming millions of years ago drastically altered plants and forests on Earth. Now, scientists see the beginnings of a more sudden, disruptive rearrangement of the world’s flora https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-climate-warms-a-rearrangement-of-worlds-plant-life-looms 9 comments climate
- An astrobiologist named Dr. Wainwright may have found the beginning of life. Microorganism seeds in space which can withstand 1,000 degrees Celsius, and they are oozing fluid. There are hints towards the possibility that the seeds were sent to Earth by some unkown civilization from another planet. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2955620/did-aliens-send-metal-orb-seed-life-earth-microscopic-sphere-contain-microorganisms-claims-astrobiologist.html 7 comments science
- In the world's driest desert, an unassuming 'black box' called "Espresso" is about to begin a very big mission: scouring the universe for planets like ours to find signs of life beyond Earth . https://phys.org/news/2018-02-black-revolutionize-life-earth.html?utm_source=menu&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=item-menu 10 comments space
- Potential Beginning of Life Simulated in Lab. Scientists at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) have substantiated their theory that life could have begun deep in the Earth's crust. In their experiments, structures that were inanimate developed survival strategies within a short time. https://www.uni-due.de/cenide/news_one_en.php/1394 10 comments science
- Scientists have found the beginnings of life-bearing chemistry at the centre of the galaxy. Iso-propyl cyanide has been detected in a star-forming cloud 27,000 light-years from Earth. Its branched carbon structure is closer to the complex organic molecules of life than any previous finding http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29368984 412 comments science