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Investigating the Composition and Metabolic Potential of Microbial Communities in Chocolate Pots Hot Springs

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018
Iron (Fe) redox-based metabolisms likely supported life on early Earth and may support life on other Fe-rich rocky planets such as Mars. Modern systems that support active Fe redox cycling such as Chocolate Pots (CP) hot springs provide insight into how ...
Nathaniel W. Fortney, Shaomei He, Shaomei He, Brandon J. Converse, Eric S. Boyd, Eric E. Roden   +5 more
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A New Record for Microbial Perchlorate Tolerance: Fungal Growth in NaClO₄ Brines and its Implications for Putative Life on Mars

Life, 2020
The habitability of Mars is strongly dependent on the availability of liquid water, which is essential for life as we know it. One of the few places where liquid water might be found on Mars is in liquid perchlorate brines that could form via ...
Jacob Heinz, Tim Krahn, Dirk Schulze-Makuch   +2 more
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Astrobiology Survey - an introductory course on astrobiology

, 2017
Astrobiology Survey is an introductory course on astrobiology.
Michael D'Alessandro
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Application of a novel schema for describing fossil fern foliage and investigating taxonomic and morphological change across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary in western North America

American Journal of Botany, Volume 113, Issue 8, August 2026.
Abstract Premise The Chicxulub asteroid impact at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary triggered a mass extinction 66 million years ago. Ferns thrived in the aftermath of the extinction, evidenced by the well‐documented “fern spore spike.” However, fern macrofossil records across the K–Pg boundary are less understood.
Fern B. Holian, Emily B. Sessa, Richard S. Barclay, Regan E. Dunn, Jacquelyn L. Gill, Kirk R. Johnson, S. Augusta Maccracken, Ian M. Miller, Jarmila Pittermann, Ellen D. Currano   +9 more
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Motivation, demographics, and engagement during COVID-19 in an astrobiology massive open online course

Physical Review Physics Education Research
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) experienced a resurgence in popularity due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this work, we studied participants in an astrobiology MOOC offered on Coursera since April 2019.
Skylar Grayson, Molly N. Simon, Sanlyn Buxner, Matthew Wenger, Chris Impey   +4 more
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Polysphaeroides filiformis, a proterozoic cyanobacterial microfossil and implications for cyanobacteria evolution

iScience
Summary: Deciphering the fossil record of cyanobacteria is crucial to understand their role in the chemical and biological evolution of the early Earth.
Catherine F. Demoulin, Marie Catherine Sforna, Yannick J. Lara, Yohan Cornet, Andrea Somogyi, Kadda Medjoubi, Daniel Grolimund, Dario Ferreira Sanchez, Remi Tucoulou Tachoueres, Ahmed Addad, Alexandre Fadel, Philippe Compère, Emmanuelle J. Javaux   +12 more
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Astroecology : bridging the gap between ecology and astrobiology [PDF]

Although astrobiology studies how life functions and evolves, ecology is still largely overlooked in astrobiology research. Here we present an argument for astroecology, a merger of ecology and astrobiology, a self-aware scientific endeavour.
Haqq Misra, Jacob, Meurer, Juliana Campos, Mendonça Junior, Milton de Souza   +2 more
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The minimum energy required to build a cell

Scientific Reports
Understanding the energy requirements for cell synthesis accurately and comprehensively has been a longstanding challenge. We introduce a computational model that estimates the minimum energy necessary to build any cell from its constituent parts.
Edwin Ortega-Arzola, Peter M. Higgins, Charles S. Cockell   +2 more
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Terrestrial atmosphere, water and astrobiology

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2010
Primitive life, defined as a chemical system capable to transfer its molecular information via self-replication and also capable to evolve, originated about 4 billion years ago from the processing of organic molecules by liquid water.
Coradini M., Brack A.
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The microbial ferrous wheel in a neutral pH groundwater seep

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2012
Evidence for microbial Fe redox cycling was documented in a circumneutral pH groundwater seep near Bloomington, Indiana. Geochemical and microbiological analyses were conducted at two sites, a semi-consolidated microbial mat and a floating puffball ...
Eric eRoden, Joyce M McBeth, Marco eBlothe, Elizabeth Maria Percak-Dennett, Emily J Fleming, Rebecca R Holyoke, George W. Luther, David eEmerson   +7 more
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