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This is the decade: Alien planets, alien life

Impact: Exogenous Life    January 22, 2011
Fourth in a series of posts inspired by ten topics in ‘Insights of the Decade’ from the December 17, 2010 special issue of Science Magazine The topics are: Inflammation, climatology, tricks of light, alien planets, the microbiome, cell development, Martian water, the DNA time machine, cosmology and epigenetics. The original articles are now behind a [...]
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A spate of exoplanets

News: Exogenous Life    August 27, 2010
The search for planets outside the solar system that could (repeat, could) harbor life goes on at a faster pace. The big gun is the Kepler Space Telescope, which in part was designed to look for terrestrial-like planets, and is now coming into the full stream of operation. Kepler scientists reported on Thursday (August 26, [...]
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The U.S. in space: Moon, out. Commerce, in.

Essay: February 1, 2010
It’s not like the United States is the only game in space. It wasn’t even the only country with a Moon project. China and Russia both made noises about going to the Moon with men (or women). Still, the U.S. was the pioneer on the Moon – the Apollo Project, “One giant step for mankind…”, [...]
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