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UK team plans 'unsent letter' to aliens
Posted in Featured, Science on 11th Sep, 2015
by Alex Muller
A network of UK researchers has decided to compose a message to aliens, but they are divided over whether such a message should be sent into space.
Researchers map a protein 'tree of life' for species across the animal kingdom
Posted in Science on 9th Sep, 2015
by Alex Muller
Roughly 20,000 unique proteins are synthesized by our genes, and work together in combination to execute complex processes.
Earth observations show how nitrogen may be detected on exoplanets, aiding search for life
Posted in Science on 6th Sep, 2015
by Alex Muller
Measuring nitrogen in the atmosphere of an exoplanet can be crucial to determining if it might be habitable.
Climate change will alter ocean bacteria crucial to food chain
Posted in Featured, Science on 3rd Sep, 2015
by Alex Muller
Irreversible changes to microorganisms could effect species from plankton to whales that depend on products it consumes or produces.
Comet impacts may have cooked up a 'soup of life'
Posted in Science on 20th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller
New results show how collisions between comets and planets can make molecules that are the essential building blocks of life.