Free Energies of Reaction for Aqueous Glycine Condensation Chemistry at Extreme Temperatures
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 271-283., 2020 This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
Matthew Kroonblawd, Nir Goldman
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Microorganisms, 2020 The discovery of liquid water at several locations in the solar system raises the possibility that microbial life may have evolved outside Earth and as such could be accidently introduced into the Earth’s ecosystem.
Katja Schaefer +9 more
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Premelting controlled active matter in ice [PDF]
, 2021 Self-propelled particles can undergo complex dynamics due to a range of bulk and surface interactions. When a particle is embedded in a host solid near its bulk melting temperature, the latter may melt at the surface of the former in a process known as interfacial premelting.
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The DRAKE mission: finding the frequency of life in the Cosmos [PDF]
, 2022 In the search for life in the Universe, exoplanets represent numerous natural experiments in planet formation, evolution, and the emergence of life. This raises the fascinating prospect of evaluating cosmic life on a statistical basis. One key statistic is the occurrence rate of life-bearing worlds, $f_{\rm L}$, the 'frequency of life' term in the ...
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Ladderpath Approach: How Tinkering and Reuse Increase Complexity and Information
Entropy, 2022 The notion of information and complexity are important concepts in many scientific fields such as molecular biology, evolutionary theory and exobiology. Many measures of these quantities are either difficult to compute, rely on the statistical notion of ...
Yu Liu, Zengru Di, Philip Gerlee
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Primordial Black Holes as Heat Sources for Living Systems with Longest Possible Lifetimes [PDF]
Astrophysics and Space Science June 2014, Volume 351, Issue 2, pp
407-408, 2014 Just forty years ago, Hawking wrote his famous paper on primordial black holes (PBH). There have been since innumerable discussions on the consequences of the existence of such exotic objects and ramifications of their properties. Here we suggest that PBH's in an ever expanding universe (as implied by dark energy domination, especially of a ...
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Nothing special in the specialist? Draft genome sequence of Cryomyces antarcticus, the most extremophilic fungus from Antarctica. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The draft genome of the Antarctic endemic fungus Cryomyces antarcticus is presented. This rock inhabiting, microcolonial fungus is extremely stress tolerant and it is a model organism for exobiology and studies on stress resistance in Eukaryots.
Katja Sterflinger +4 more
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mSystems, 2021 In recent years, our appreciation of the extent of habitable environments in Earth’s subsurface has greatly expanded, as has our understanding of the biodiversity contained within.
Lindsay I. Putman +7 more
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Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2021 The fields of developmental biology, biomedicine, and artificial life are being revolutionized by advances in synthetic morphology. The next phase of synthetic biology and bioengineering is resulting in the construction of novel organisms (biobots ...
Charles I. Abramson, Michael Levin
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Astrobiologically Interesting Stars within 10 parsecs of the Sun [PDF]
Astrobiology 6:308-331,2006, 2005 The existence of life based on carbon chemistry and water oceans relies upon planetary properties, chiefly climate stability, and stellar properties, such as mass, age, metallicity and Galactic orbits. The latter can be well constrained with present knowledge.
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