Extremophile Hunt Begins
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A team of scientists has just set off to explore a strange lake in Antarctica, which may be home to exotic forms of microscopic life.
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Researchers in Colorado say they have found what fuels microbial dwellers of hot springs in Yellowstone National Park &#151; and it isn't what the rotten-egg smell of the heated pools might suggest.
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"Field research" projects often require scientists to endure discomfort and danger to get where they need to be, but not many can trump this summer's expedition to what may be the world's most inaccessible human fossil site, a cave in the foothills of Romania's Carpathian Mountains.
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Scientists search for "sweet spots" -- pockets of natural gas and crude nestled deep beneath the Earth's surface -- using technology similar to that used to sneak peeks at babies in their mothers' wombs.
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New methane readings from a space probe raise the possibility that microbial life could exist on Mars. Some scientists, though, remain skeptical.
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Â· Research aimed at producing green fuel  Â· Critics warn of terrorists creating new bioweapons
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An artist's rendering of a bowhead whale diving. (Richard Ellis) Our endless quest for that wondrous liquid fossil fuel, oil, is expanding toward the ends of the Earth as higher prices justify more extreme extraction efforts. Jad Mouawad, my friend and colleague covering the global oil industry, ventured to frigid Barrow, Alaska, recently to write about [...].
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Microbe colonies discovered living under rocks in the Arctic and Antarctic are just the latest example of life's ability to cope with extremes.
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A remote Mars life-detection strategy is being tested in the fjords of Scandanavia, with a goal of eventually identifying even a single biological cell hiding in the rugged landscape.
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The discovery of large colonies of micro-organisms living under rocks in the most hostile habitat of the Arctic and Antarctic, may revive the hopes of finding life on other planets like Mars.
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Previously undiscovered lakes under Antarctica may help improve our understanding of the interaction between global warming and the melting icepack. Plus: New climate accord sought. By the Associated Press.
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The Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, has signed up more than 1 million volunteers worldwide in a search for extraterrestrial intelligence. They've found no aliens yet, but they have at least turned up one missing laptop.
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Extraterrestrial life may well be so weird we would not immediately recognize it, and scientists looking for alien life should be seeking the unfamiliar as well as the familiar, experts advised on Friday.
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A team of 20 scientists is joining the search for a missing H-bomb off the coast of Georgia. The government believes a report of some unusual radiation readings might be coming from a hydrogen bomb that was lost near Tybee Island in 1958.
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Scientists interested in the search for life on other planets often spend their time hunting for novel life forms and unique ecosystems here on Earth. The RÃÂ­o Tinto, a river in Spain with highly acidic water the color of red wine, has one group of researchers intrigued about what might be living underground.
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UK researchers have developed a way of using light to detect the presence of bacteria.
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Researchers are undertaking a mammoth effort to observe oceanic life using fiber optics and the Internet.