Sentences with phrase «other chemical signatures»

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.

The team found other chemical signatures that point to beer as well.

Not exact matches

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

Ionised clouds could provide this, but had only been glimpsed via the chemical signature they impart on light reaching us from quasars in other galaxies.

As caterpillars grow, they take on a characteristic chemical signature of the environment, with hydrogen, oxygen and other elements fixed in tissues in varying amounts.

The team additionally showed that chemical signatures of ergatoid pupae and hatchlings are distinct from other classes of ants in the colony, explaining how adults can pick out which newborns to fight.

Scientists are interested in understanding early life on Earth because if we ever hope to find life on other worlds - especially icy worlds with subsurface oceans such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's Enceladus - we need to know what chemical signatures to look for.

«The complex chemical signatures of hotspot basalts provide evidence that the composition of the lowermost part of Earth's mantle is different from other parts.

Scientists are interested in understanding early life on Earth because if we ever hope to find life on other worlds — especially icy worlds with subsurface oceans such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's Enceladus — we need to know what chemical signatures to look for.

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.

Our evolving chemical signature, they suggest, allowed us to outcompete other apes and early hominins, referring to the numerous humanlike species that arose after our split with chimpanzees over six million years ago.

Karla Knudson analyzed isotopes in the shells of tiny marine organisms preserved in seafloor sediments to find chemical signatures of past water temperatures and other oceanographic conditions.

When rovers exploring other planets seek out chemical signatures associated with life forms, they're only able to identify chemicals that we know to look for.

The ability to associate chemicals with their source or with other samples having a common origin is fundamental to the establishment of attribution signatures for chemical forensics.

We will interpret recently completed measurements of 35 chemical - proxies in the ice - core and relate these to similar studies in other Arctic ice cores, such as by using real - world contaminant transport to validate atmospheric circulation models and chemical - signature sourcing.

Gaia's founding scientist James Lovelock formulated Gaia theory while working for NASA seeking chemical signatures of life on other planets.

Second, the carbon from dirty energy has a unique chemical signature that allows scientists to tell it apart from other sources of carbon.

Second, the carbon from dirty energy has a unique chemical signature that differentiates it from other sources of carbon — so we can confirm that it's coming from us.