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Climate variations on Earth-like circumbinary planets

Nature Communications, 2017
Large variations in insolation experienced by circumbinary planets raise the question of the habitability of such planets. Here, the authors show that while the changing insolation does not radically affect habitability, it does impact on the planet’s ...
Max Popp, Siegfried Eggl
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Semi-Empirical Estimates of the Cosmic Planet Formation Rate

Galaxies
We devise and exploit a data-driven, semi-empirical framework of galaxy formation and evolution, coupling it to recipes for planet formation from stellar and planetary science, to compute the cosmic planet formation rate, and the properties of the ...
Andrea Lapi, Lumen Boco, Francesca Perrotta, Marcella Massardi   +3 more
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Transition to a Moist Greenhouse with CO2 and solar forcing

Nature Communications, 2016
Greenhouse-gas forcing has previously been thought to be rather ineffective at destroying the habitability of Earth-like planets. Here, the authors show that CO2is as effective as solar forcing at causing a climate transition to a Moist-Greenhouse regime
Max Popp, Hauke Schmidt, Jochem Marotzke
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Health Complaints Associated with Poor Rental Housing Conditions in Arkansas: The Only State Without a Landlord’s Implied Warranty of Habitability

Frontiers in Public Health, 2016
Arkansas is the only U.S. state that does not have a landlord’s implied warranty of habitability, meaning tenants have a requirement for maintaining their rental properties at certain habitability standards, but landlords are not legally required to ...
Ashley Bachelder, M. Kate Stewart, Holly Felix, Neil Sealy   +3 more
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The habitability trade-off: Chemical decoupling and quenching in massive galaxies

Astronomy & Astrophysics
Massive galaxies experience complex evolutionary processes, including mergers and gas accretion, which can disrupt the chemical equilibrium between their stellar and gaseous components. Using the IllustrisTNG (TNG100) simulation at z = 0, we investigated
Mitrašinović Ana, Pavlov Nataša, Vukotić Branislav, Milošević Stanislav   +3 more
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Life on Venus?

Life
Venus is not generally at the forefront when considering extraterrestrial life. Yet, based on the physical similarities and proximity to Earth and with the little knowledge of its evolutionary history, there is a possibility that Venus may have hosted ...
Sanjay S. Limaye
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The Importance of Habitable Areas in Urban Design

Journal of Technology in Architecture Design and Planning
When making urban design settlement plans, decisions about which areas can be opened for habitation should demonstrate compliance not only with the principles of planning disciplines but also with fundamental legislation regarding suitability for zoning.
Sema Karagüler, Bengi Korgavuş
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An astrobiological perspective on microbial biofilms: their importance for habitability and production of detectable and lasting biosignatures

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
The search for life elsewhere in the universe has remained one of the main goals of astrobiological exploration. In this quest, extreme environments on Earth have served as analogs to study the potential habitability of Mars and icy moons, which include ...
Sarah Gonzalez-Henao, Matthew O. Schrenk
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Euhabitability: A New Term to Aid in the Search for Life in Addition to the Habitable Zone Framework. [PDF]

Space Sci Rev
Glaser DM, Olson S, Berdyugina S, Byrne P, Cawood P, Lingam M, Lustig-Yaeger J, Spohn T.   +7 more
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The chemistry of habitable oceans in the Solar system. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Hao J, Zhu Y, Knoll AH, Tosca NJ, He C, Vetter MCYL, Liao L, Crockford PW, Stüeken EE, Huo A, Li J, Mondal JA, Catling DC, Song Y, Ju P, Pan L, Huang F, Glein CR.   +17 more
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