Sentences with phrase «for signatures of life»

Rivkina, E., K. Laurinavichius, J. McGrath, J. Tiedje, V. Shcherbakova, and D. Gilichinsky, Microbial life in permafrost, in Space Life Sciences: Search for Signatures of Life, and Space Flight Environmental Effects on the Nervous System, pp. 1215 - 1221, 2004.

NExSS will help lay the groundwork for answering important questions about how to search for signatures of life on distant worlds using existing technology.

How many of the planets in the solar neighborhood are truly Earth - like — moderately rich in volatiles and organics — is an essential question to answer if we want to carry out a meaningful search for extraterrestrial life: for surveying nearby Earths for signatures of life is going to be one of the most complex and challenging endeavors in science yet.

«Today... Kepler may well deliver the first candidates for follow - up study by the James Webb Space Telescope to characterize the atmospheres of distant worlds and search for signatures of life.»

Urine that it vented also left a residue when tiny particles hit the craft's panels, so Lorenz suggests that future missions to Enceladus could look for signatures of life if similar residue is found in the minuscule dents left on a detector by ice grains from the plumes.

As we are now entering a stage of astronomy where we have seen exoplanets and are hoping to soon perform spectroscopy, looking for signatures of life, we should try to see just how fragile this hardiest life is.

JWST will examine exoplanet atmospheres for signatures of life, which is only possible when their stars are relatively close.

While his celebrated colleagues design ever more inventive spaceships and robots to scour the surface of Mars for some signature of life, Venkateswaran quietly examines the machinery itself, searching for any clever microbes — «bugs,» he calls them — that might try to tag along.

Not exact matches

A petition calling upon First Lady Melania Trump to either move to the White House or foot the bill for living in Trump Tower out of her own pocket has reached almost a quarter - of - a-million signatures.

Feeley went on to criticize many of Trump's signature national - security and foreign policies, including the travel ban, plans to build a wall along the US - Mexico border, decision to end legal protections for the children of people living in the US illegally, and withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement and the Trans - Pacific Partnership.

«A minority of investors I speak to give two hoots about Unilever's Sustainable Living Plan,» says Jefferies analyst Martin Deboo in London, referring to Polman's signature blueprint for Unilever, dubbed USLP.

C4M's high - profile campaign attracted around 668,000 signatures to a petition which said: «I support the legal definition of marriage which is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others.

She is also the author of The Holy Way: Practices for a Simple Life (Loyola Press, 2003), and coeditor of Signatures of Grace: Catholic Writers on the Sacraments (Dutton, 2000).

Grab a helmet and brace yourself for slime: Nickelodeon just announced they are reviving Double Dare, one of their signature franchises from the»90s, bringing the game show back to life for a new generation.

Like the Old Testament wisdom writers, Updike believes that God's signature is written on the patterns of life for the person who will look.

In September 2013, The Ranch at Live Oak / Malibu partnered with the California Health & Longevity Institute (CHLI) at Four Seasons Westlake Village to offer guests a 4 - day version of the brand's signature 7 - day stay in a setting that allows for diagnostic testing and the ability to stay connected to the outside world.

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It's the first book from the L.A. bakery of the same name, meaning now you can have one of the signature floral cakes all for yourself no matter where you live.

«This is a new era for InterBev, bringing together the best of previous shows with the addition of signature live events, including an Industry Town Hall, the Beverage Innovation Awards and more,» said Susan K. Neely, ABA president and CEO.

With nearly 20 years of experience in the hospitality industry, Originario will oversee operations for W San Francisco's acclaimed beverage and food program, including the hotel's signature TRACE restaurant, dedicated to socially responsible food created from locally sourced and sustainable ingredients, Upstairs Bar & Lounge, a dynamic lounge fuses signature cocktails with vibrant design, and The Living Room Bar, a chic hangout that couples craft cocktails with dynamic décor and electric beats spun by a live DJ.

In May 2016, Originario joined W San Francisco as Director of Beverage & Food overseeing operations for the hotel's signature TRACE restaurant, dedicated to socially responsible food created from locally sourced and sustainable ingredients, Upstairs Bar & Lounge, a dynamic lounge fuses signature cocktails with vibrant design, and The Living Room Bar, a chic hangout that couples craft cocktails with dynamic décor and electric beats spun by a live DJ.

Prenatal Yoga and Meditation is one of the signature classes at Heaven Meets Earth, a yoga studio and center for conscious living in Evanston.

Presented in bite - sized chapters perfect for busy parents and written in L.R.Knost's signature conversational style, «The Gentle Parent» is packed with practical suggestions and real - life examples to help parents through the normal ups and downs of gentle discipline on the road to raising a generation of world changers.

«State agents uncovered hundreds of fraudulent examples: people who didn't live in the city voting in the election; phony signatures on absentee ballots; and campaign vote brokers acting as witnesses for most of these ballots.

The bulk of the article, which features a photo of Lee, wearing her signature white and posing in her white living room in front of a white Christmas tree, is devoted to how the semi-home made domestic diva decorated the Mt. Kisco home she shares with Cuomo for the holidays.

Since the reaction produces nitrous oxide with a specific isotopic signature, Joye says: «This could be an easy way to «sniff» around the surface of Mars looking for pockets of subsurface brine that might be hotspots for extreme microbial life.»

There are precious few chemical signatures we could look at as evidence of life, and in most cases other explanations exist for those observations.

If Proxima b proves to have an atmosphere, Loeb and Kreidberg have also proposed using Webb to probe for the infrared signature of ozone in Proxima Centauri's glare as a possible sign that the planet's air is filled with oxygen — something that, on Earth, is mostly produced by life.

Sara Seager of MIT, who collaborates with Deming, is trying to figure out which spectral signatures in a planet's atmosphere would provide the best evidence for signs of life.

This milestone will inevitably spark another revolution, as observers redouble their efforts to see Earth - like worlds directly and probe their atmospheres for the telltale chemical signatures of life.

Recently, NASA stopped using cotton swabs in the cleaning process: To a life - detection instrument, the atomic bonds in a stray filament of cotton could be mistaken for the signature of proteins.

Since Viking, though, NASA has mostly played it safe, scouring Mars's surface not for the chemical signatures of life but for ancient habitable environments — the goal of the Curiosity rover.

At each site, Dragonfly would sample the surface and atmosphere with a suite of carefully selected science instruments that will characterize the habitability of Titan's environment, investigate how far prebiotic chemistry progressed, and search for chemical signatures indicative of water - and / or hydrocarbon - based life.

Chemical signatures of the ocean water the organisms lived in are locked into the composition of their shells, and researchers can analyze them for evidence of past water temperatures and other oceanographic conditions.

He said under nighttime and low - light conditions, there is insufficient light for a conventional camera to capture facial imagery for recognition without active illumination such as a flash or spotlight, which would give away the position of such surveillance cameras; however, thermal cameras that capture the heat signature naturally emanating from living skin tissue are ideal for such conditions.

One path to finding life on other planets — or moons — involves looking for signature patterns of amino acids, which are organic molecules that are critical to life on Earth.

«Peripheral blood of living ASD infants and toddlers is an important alternative, and obtaining blood samples is routine and safe and, thus, is a preferable and accessible tissue for identifying signatures of ASD that could be used in clinical screening and follow - up evaluations.»

And yet, having lived through past pandemics, Mulembakani also believes that even a flicker of a chance to control an onrushing infection is reason enough for him and his dogged colleagues to push on, visiting obscure villages, unsanitary markets, and overcrowded hospitals, testing for the signature of worrisome pathogens.

Famed for their elaborate live shows featuring costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands and frontman Wayne Coynes» signature man - sized bubble, The Flaming Lips are the perfect partner to the backdrop of the third largest steerable radio telescope in the world that will be used as a massive projection screen!

The telescope will provide astronomers with the capability to examine the atmospheres of other planets and look for atmospheric signatures that could hint the presence of life.

Yin explained: «The fact that we've identified a genetic signature for limb regeneration in three different species with three different types of appendages suggests that nature has created a common genetic instruction manual governing regeneration that may be shared by all forms of animal life, including humans.»

2 By studying the record of Earth's history contained in sedimentary rocks from the time just prior to the rise of animals, between 1200 and 650 million years ago, reading these rocks for clues about changing environmental conditions by chemical analysis, and systematically scouring them for traces of life — from fossils as well as chemical signatures;

Better understanding how signatures of life and environment are preserved will guide how and where to look for evidence for life elsewhere in the universe — directly supporting the Curiosity mission on Mars and helping set strategic goals for future explorations of solar system and studies of the early Earth.

What are the signatures of life astronomers should look for when they scan the heavens for habitable worlds?

So, starting from the only example we have, NASA's Exoplanet Exploration program is aiming to build a telescope that will look for oxygen or other similarly odd gases in other earth - like planets atmospheres as possible signatures of life.

In late September 2003, astrobiologist Maggie Turnbull from the University of Arizona in Tucson identified 37 Geminorum as one of the best candidates for hosting Earth - type life from a shortlist of 30 stars (screened from the 5,000 or so stars that are estimated to be located within 100 ly of Earth) that were presented to a group of scientists from NASA's space - telescope project, the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), which will search for habitable planets by using visible light with the «signature» of water and / or oxygen from an Earth - type planet after its scheduled launch around 2013, and the ESA's Darwin project involving six space telescopes (Astrobiology Magazine).

Globalaai, an Australian nonprofit that raises awareness about life - threatening allergies and advocates for the safety of people who have them, was so outraged by the scene, the group created a petition that now has more than 10,000 signatures.

Whether it's her signature «Living an EcoHealthy Lifestyle» or teaching the importance of gut health, appropriate weight loss and detoxification, or biomedical approaches for autism, Tiffany's passion shines through and propels you and your audience into action.

On Sunday, June 11th, you've got four chances to experience the signature CITYROW sweatfest under the sun with views for days set to the beats of a live DJ.

This top is going to be one of my signature pieces for year round wear (joys of living in LA... I can wear off the shoulder pieces even in the winter)!