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Trace Element Determination of Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Eggshell Fossils from Xixia Basin, Henan Province by ICP-OES and Its Implications for Extinction of Dinosaurs

open access: yesYankuang ceshi, 2015
Dinosaur egg fossils are important for exploring the survival and extinction of the dinosaurs. Current researches on dinosaur egg fossils are concentrated in their biology and burial features.
WANG Xiao-wei, YAO Xiao-yong, XU Xue-yi
doaj   +1 more source

CHANNELING: SEARCH OF THE METAANTHROPOLOGIC MEAS-UREMENTS OF MIND BEING IN THE UNIVERSE (based on the World Wide Web)

open access: yesAntropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2014
The relevance of the study. In the context of religious and philosophical movements of the «New Age» gained channeling phenomenon – «laying channel», «transmission channel» information from the consciousness that is not in human form, to the individual ...
Anatoly T. Tshedrin
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Marine Impacts and Environmental Consequences – Drilling of the Mjølnir Structure, the Barents Sea [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Drilling, 2008
In September 2007, thirty-three scientists attended an international workshop in Longyearbyen (Svalbard, Norway) to discuss impacts of extraterrestrial bodies into marine environment and to prepare for the drilling of the 142-Ma-old Mjølnir impact ...
Takafumi Matsui   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A philosophical outlook on potential conflicts between planetary protection, astrobiology and commercial use of space [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The aim of this chapter is to use philosophy and, in particular ethical theory, to identify and explore some potential ...
Persson, Erik
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Galactic Punctuated Equilibrium: How to Undermine Carter's Anthropic Argument in Astrobiology

open access: yes, 2009
We investigate a new strategy which can defeat the (in)famous Carter's "anthropic" argument against extraterrestrial life and intelligence. In contrast to those already considered by Wilson, Livio, and others, the present approach is based on relaxing ...
Annis J.   +6 more
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Wanted Dead or Alive Extraterrestrial Life Forms (Thermodynamic criterion for life is a growing open system that performs self-assembly processes) [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2018
For more than 100 years, humanity (both specialists and enthusiastic laics) has been searching for extraterrestrial life hoping we are not alone. The first step in the quest for extraterrestrial life is to define what and where exactly to look for. Thus, the basic definition of living matter is a conditio sine qua non for the quest.
arxiv  

Translationally cold trapped CCl+ reactions with acetylene (C2H2) [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2020
Ion-neutral chemical reactions are important in several areas of chemistry, including in some regions of the interstellar medium, planetary atmospheres, and comets. Reactions of CCl+ with C2H2 are measured and the main products include c-C3H2+ and l-C3H+, both relevant in extraterrestrial environments.
arxiv  

EVOLVING NEURAL CONTROLLERS FOR TERRESTRIAL AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL LOCOMOTION IN AN ARTIFICIAL QUADRUPED

open access: yesJournal of ICT, 2005
This study explores the use of a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for the automatic synthesis of neural controllers for the quadrupedal locomotion of an artificial creature in a 3-dimensional, physics-based environment.
J. Teo
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Cultivation With Powdered Meteorite (NWA 1172) as the Substrate Enhances Low-Temperature Preservation of the Extreme Thermoacidophile Metallosphaera sedula

open access: yesFrontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2020
Recent studies have uncovered a vast number of thermophilic species in icy environments, permanently cold ocean sediments, cold sea waters, and cool soils.
Tetyana Milojevic   +4 more
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Prebiotic Organic Globules [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Analogs of organic globules observed in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites and in interplanetary dust particles and of rod to spherical structures observed in terrestrial archean microstructures have been synthesized in our experiments conducted with ...
Marie-Paule Bassez, Yoshinori Takano
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