Sentences with phrase «detect signs of life»

But within the next generation, it should become possible to detect signs of life on planets orbiting distant stars.
Cassini wasn't designed to detect signs of life in the Enceladus plume — indeed, scientists didn't know the plume existed until after the spacecraft arrived at Saturn.
I'm confident that we'll detect signs of life on exoplanets (planets around other stars) by observing the atmospheres of the planets that we're detecting now — especially those similar to Earth in mass and orbit — and finding oxygen and other chemical signatures there.
For astronomers, the proposed new telescope represents tremendous promise: With a mirror nearly three times larger than any other on Earth, it could detect signs of life in other solar systems and provide clues to the origins of the universe.
But the best EEG machines cost tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars — and for all that, they generally haven't been used for much more than measuring relaxation levels or detecting signs of life.
Possibly she had fallen into a coma, and Jesus detected signs of life that the parents and friends had not perceived.

Not exact matches

As it is, we have no way of detecting life... signs of life, yes, but not life itself.
We have no way of detecting life itself... only signs of life, not life itself.
Further, how would a «daily dog walker» detect signs of George Latimer living at his house in Rye?
Some supporters of alternative life suggest looking for signs of metabolic activity in varnishes, which could be detected by watching for the flow of radioactive tracers through any hidden organisms.
Ray started with 50 compounds thought to disrupt the ability of mosquito olfactory sensors to detect carbon dioxide, the telltale sign of a living, breathing blood meal.
After months of searching, the NASA rover Curiosity detected no appreciable methane in Mars» atmosphere, disappointing scientists who had hoped to find a strong sign of life on the Red Planet.
It can reveal details of the minerals inside rocks, and so what the micro-environment for life is, but we can also use it to detect organic molecules and signs of life itself.»
Nevertheless, this technique is an extremely promising one for detecting potential signs of life on alien worlds.
The «habitable zone» is the region around a star in which water on a planet's surface is liquid and signs of life can be remotely detected by telescopes.
Detecting unambiguous signs of life is fraught with difficulty (see «Why isn't NASA hunting for life?»).
Use this two page printable sheet to learn about the exoplanet science the GMT will do — including detecting rocky planets, looking for signs of life and taking images.
«The fact that the concentration and diversity of life detected in this subglacial lake exists means there is a very good sign for the existence of life on Europa, even if the details are different,» says Cynthia Phillips, a planetary geologist at the SETI Institute in California.
It will perhaps even detect signs of extra-terrestrial life as the SKA will be sensitive enough to detect signals, comparable to terrestrial television transmitters, from planets in nearby solar systems.
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Bringing your cat in for an exam will allow us to detect subtle signs of illness which could prevent them from staying healthy and living a long life!
It can be helpful in detecting early signs of disease, giving us the opportunity to help treat and reverse signs and symptoms, providing your pet with a longer and healthier life!
The condition is usually detected in young and adolescent dogs, with clinical signs manifested from two to six months of age, but the aberrant distichiae may sometimes arise later in life [4, 25, 28].
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Dr. Kiang also relates this work to research in astrobiology, particularly with regard to how photosynthetic activity produces signs of life at the global scale (e.g., biogenic gases like oxygen and photosynthetic pigments like chlorophyll) and how these may exhibit adaptations to alternative environments on extrasolar planets, resulting in other «biosignatures» that might be detected by space telescopes.
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