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Home » Science Topics » Astrobiology & Space Science » Page 16

Category: Astrobiology & Space Science

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Geothermal heating increases the habitability of planets orbiting red dwarfs

Posted on October 7, 2014October 24, 2022 by Jacob Haqq Misra

Small red stars, known by astronomers as “M-dwarfs”, are the most abundant type of star in the sky and are also the most long-lived of…

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    New but really old genetic ‘operating system’ led to evolution of complex organisms

    Posted on October 7, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

    The evolution of worms, insects, vertebrates and other “bilateral” animals — those with distinct left and right sides…

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      Evolutionary arms race via ancient viruses in primate evolution

      Posted on September 29, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

      New findings by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, suggest that an evolutionary arms race between rival elements within…

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        Deciduous trees flourished after dinosaur-killing meteor impact

        Posted on September 17, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

        Some 66 million years ago, a 10-km diameter chunk of rock hit the Yukatan peninsula near the site of the small town of Chicxulub with the…

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          Oxygen alone may not be enough to detect life on exoplanets

          Posted on September 13, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

          Astronomers searching the atmospheres of alien worlds or exoplants for gases that might be produced by life can’t rely on the…

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