Everything disturbing in “Little Reindeer” actually happened in real life
If you’re hooked on Netflix’s new show baby reindeer – which has been sitting at the top of the charts for over a week – you probably know it’s based …
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NASA rover reaches site expected to search for fossils of life on Mars
Unlike its predecessor, Curiosity, NASA’s Perseverance rover is explicitly designed to search for potential evidence of past life, according to the space agency. Formal mission objectives. You don’t know the …
Building Rockets and Searching for Life on Venus: Q&A with Rocket Lab’s Peter Baker
COLORADO SPRINGS — With an eye on the future, it’s incredibly busy. This is a short and sweet comment from Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck. In the pantheon …
Ocean currents bring life and plastic: Galapagos animals live among rubbish
AAs our small fishing boat came to a slow stop in a shallow bay southeast of Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz in the Galapagos Islands, a green sea turtle surfaced next …
New paper thinks looking beyond deadly Venus to find life in the universe
This lithograph shows images of Venus from the Pioneer Venus, Magellan, TRACE, and Venus Express missions.Image source: NASA A new paper argues that uninhabitable Venus offers important lessons about the …
How could life survive on a tidally locked planet?
The famous science fiction writer Isaac Asimov called them “ribbon worlds” – planets forced to always show a face to their parent star. One side of the star is locked …
Life insurance lobbyists say national genetic information ban unnecessary
The fallout from a 2020 Florida law banning life insurance companies from using genetic information is a classic case of good news and bad news for the industry. The bonus: …
Purple planet could be the sign of alien life we’ve been looking for
In the search for extraterrestrial life, scientists already know that we may be looking at a world very different from Earth’s verdant, plant-dominated biosphere. Exactly how different is hard to …
Key building blocks of life on Earth could form more easily in outer space, new study says
Photo credit: Yves Almecija/CNRS The origin of life on Earth remains a mystery, but we are slowly unraveling the steps involved and the necessary ingredients. Scientists believe that life began …
Aquatic life: Why diurnal frogs retain genes adapted to night vision
The ancestors of vertebrates had five distinct visual opsins: one rod-specific opsin, RH1, present in a single type of rod; and four cone opsins (LWS, RH2, SWS1 and SWS2 ), …