Sentences with phrase «microbial life present»
«The amount of different types of microbial life present in the cloud droplets that make up a winter storm is amazing,» says Gary Franc, a microbiologist and plant pathologist at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.
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The existence of microbial life on Mars remains highly controversial, but recent evidence of water, complex organic molecules, and methane in the Martian environment, combined with findings from the 1976 Viking mission, have led to the conclusion that existing life on Mars is a possibility that must be considered, as presented in an article in Astrobiology.
«And until recently, the idea was that all microbes are present everywhere, and that environmental conditions simply select which species dominate», explains Cyrus Mallon, who recently received his PhD from the Microbial Ecology group at the Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences.
An unconventional solution is now presented by Singaporean and Chinese scientists: as reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, they coated live, electroactive bacteria with a conducting polymer and obtained a high - performance anode for microbial fuel cells.
Finding past or present microbial life on Mars would without doubt be one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time.
Finding boron on Mars suggests that the groundwater present in Gale Crater was most likely at a temperature and acidity suitable for microbial life.
A mission to explore the frozen north pole of Mars as part of the search for past, or even present, microbial life has been selected by NASA for launch in 2007.