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Life on Mars? The physiological perspective

Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Ronan M. G. Berg, Damian M. Bailey
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Subterranean environments contribute to three‐quarters of classified ecosystem services

Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 3, Page 1582-1605, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Beneath the Earth's surface lies a network of interconnected caves, voids, and systems of fissures forming in rocks of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic origin. Although largely inaccessible to humans, this hidden realm supports and regulates services critical to ecological health and human well‐being.
Stefano Mammola, David Brankovits, Tiziana Di Lorenzo, Isabel R. Amorim, Raluca Ioana Bancila, Adrià Bellvert, Enrico Bernard, Anna Blomberg, Paulo A.V. Borges, Martina Cappelletti, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, Rosalina Gabriel, Diana M. P. Galassi, Laura Garzoli, Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Grant C. Hose, Kathryn L. Korbel, Simone Martino, Ana Z Miller, Nataša Mori, Veronica Nanni, Giuseppe Nicolosi, Mattia Saccò, Troy S. Sakihara, Marconi Souza Silva, Anne E. Tamalavage, Maja Zagmajster, Efraín Chávez, Christian Griebler, Pedro Cardoso, Alejandro Martínez   +30 more
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Predicting Nitrogen Isotope Fractionation in Nitrate Deposition on Early Mars

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 131, Issue 6, June 2026.
Abstract Noachian and early Hesperian Mars were likely warm and wet, with an atmosphere abundant in molecular nitrogen. The recent discovery of nitrate deposits in the Yellowknife Bay mudstones at Gale Crater confirm the existence of nitrogen oxides (NOX) on Noachian Mars. The processes responsible for the production of these nitrates would fractionate
J. Shawcross, D. J. Adams, M. L. Wong, K. J. Smith, Y. L. Yung   +4 more
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Microbially generated ferruginous crusts: A potential biosignature of continental input in coastal settings

Sedimentology, Volume 73, Issue 4, Page 1225-1243, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Thin ferruginous sandy crusts are common on top of sandstone beds in the Early Permian post‐glacial deposits of the Paraná Basin in southern Brazil. These crusts usually preserve wrinkle structures, suggesting that they might be a product of microbial mediation.
Patrícia Weschenfelder, Renata Guimarães Netto, Alisson Klayton Martins   +2 more
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Interpretable Machine Learning Biosignature Detection From Ocean Worlds Analogue CO2 Isotopologue Data

Earth and Space Science
Future missions to icy ocean worlds (OW) such as Europa and Enceladus will evaluate the habitability and potential for biosignatures on these worlds. These missions will benefit from autonomous science and machine learning (ML) methods to process high ...
Lily A. Clough, Victoria DaPoian, Jonathan D. Major, Lauren M. Seyler, Brett A. McKinney, Bethany P. Theiling   +5 more
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Development of Holocene lacustrine microbialites on the Iberian Peninsula: Insights into environmental and depositional controls using X‐ray CT and petrography

Sedimentology, Volume 73, Issue 4, Page 1148-1184, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Microbial mats and microbialites are common in modern and ancient saline lacustrine environments and are highly responsive to biological and environmental factors. As such, they represent important sources of high‐resolution environmental data across a wide range of geological time. Nonetheless, interpretation of fossil mats is non‐trivial due
Connor Doyle, Juan Pablo Corella, Julia Behnsen, Mario Morellón, Celia Martín‐Puertas, Blas Valero Garcés, Stefan Schröder   +6 more
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Detecting Biosignatures in Complex Molecular Mixtures From Pyrolysis‐Gas Chromatography‐Mass Spectrometry Data Using Machine Learning

Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation
Understanding how measured molecular signals can distinguish the chemistry of life from the chemistry of the nonliving world is a central focus of astrobiology and paleobiology.
Grethe Hystad, H. James Cleaves II, Collin A. Garmon, Michael L. Wong, Anirudh Prabhu, George D. Cody, Robert M. Hazen   +6 more
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The History and Philosophy of Biosignatures

, 2018
This chapter examines the human search, understanding, and interpretation of biosignatures. It deals with four epistemological issues in the search for signs of life in outer space: (1) conceptualization, how we form concepts of life in astrobiology, how we define and categorize things, and the relation between our concepts and our knowledge of the ...
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Biosignatures Search in Habitable Planets

Galaxies, 2019
The search for life has had a new enthusiastic restart in the last two decades thanks to the large number of new worlds discovered. The about 4100 exoplanets found so far, show a large diversity of planets, from hot giants to rocky planets orbiting small
Riccardo Claudi, Eleonora Alei
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Habitability and biosignatures

Preprint of a chapter for the 'Encyclopedia of Astrophysics' (Editor-in-Chief Ilya Mandel, Section Editor Dimitri Veras) to be published by Elsevier as a Reference ...
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