Sentences with phrase «of alien microbes»

Researchers are already exploring the dangers that hitchhiking microbes from Earth would pose to potential alien life, as well as the risk of alien microbes to the health of human astronauts.

He and his colleagues now hope to gather responses from participants of different cultures, to compare how people across the globe would take the news of alien microbes.

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Stories on hints of dark matter at the dawn of the cosmos, what giant family trees can tell us about human behavior, and how people think they would react to alien microbes

To prepare for the coming flood of exoplanet data researchers are now compiling lists of possible biosignatures, from spectral hints of gases that might emanate from living things to pigments that could reside in alien plants or microbes.

The first sign of aliens might not be microbes or radio signals but fossilised imprints or excrement left on the solid surfaces of Mars or Titan

The next step will be to analyze the core for microbes and other signs of life, which, if found, will add a second member to this alien landscape in the deep.

It would take the discovery of just a single «alien» microbe to settle the matter.

The 1996 discovery of carbonate structures in meteorite ALH - 84001 — which travelled to Earth from Mars more than 13,000 years ago — was hailed at the time as evidence that alien microbes once lived on the red planet.

Although the kind of aliens she seeks are rather unsexy — perhaps nothing more than floating microbes — their discovery would be staggering.

Today the agency has embraced the search for microbes on Mars and other planets but at least for now tends to avoid the far more controversial topic of looking for alien civilizations.

JUPITER»S icy moon Europa may be one of the most promising places to look for alien microbes, thanks to its subsurface ocean.

So in addition to warm water, organic molecules, and certain minerals, this moon is also producing an accessible source of energy that could conceivably support alien microbes.

It does not matter whether it's a complex critter or simple microbe: If an alien does not use the same class of biomolecules that Earth life does (DNA, for example), its evolution was almost surely separate from that of Earth — a true «second genesis.»

Vakoch suggests that researchers should gauge how people might react to a range of instances in which some alien microbe might turn up.

«In our modern world where people are regularly taking antibiotics and other pharmaceutical drugs, where food is laced with chemicals alien to the human physiology, an increasing number of people have damaged, abnormal gut flora dominated by pathogenic [disease - causing] microbes.

For example, in species - poor, sub-Antarctic island ecosystems, alien microbes, fungi, plants and animals have been extensively documented as causing substantial loss of local biodiversity and changes to ecosystem function (Frenot et al., 2005).

If aliens had been looking out for us with the help of a radio telescope, they would have probably ended up finding nothing during the period of the first 4.5 billion years; of course Earth had dinosaurs and microbes, but we became detectable only by the time of Second World War, after the invention of radar.