Sentences with phrase «trace of life»

The work is a «sound, basic observation that there were traces of life in these rocks,» he says.

As the program shows, that quest is essentially a hunt for traces of life's basic ingredients: liquids, organic molecules, and energy.

Excitingly, it may be easier to detect traces of life on this moon than we realize.

Scientists have discovered traces of life more than half - a-billion years old that could change the way we think about how all animals evolved on earth.

Recent chats with Jesse Ausubel of Rockefeller University drew me this week to remarkable new discoveries of traces of life in sediment layers up to 200 feet beneath the South Pacific Ocean seabed that were long presumed to be sterile.

Transferred onto video and projected at an immersive scale, West's films appear as psychedelic visual trips, literally steeped in traces of lived experience, the material residue of action, history, desire and the popular culture of the Californian West Coast.

The planets have a «winning combination» of being Earth - sized, potentially habitable and well - suited for atmospheric studies, making them «the first opportunities to find chemical traces of life outside our solar system,» study co-author Julien de Wit told CNBC in an email.

Scientists have discovered traces of life more than half - a-billion years old that could change the way we think about how all animals evolved on earth.

All told, the T - Limit team expects to detect traces of life as sparse as six microbial cells per cubic centimeter of sediment.

The new research shows how planets like this could hide traces of life from astronomers» observations.

It may never be possible to say whether someone had a soul or not simply from their physical remains and the circumstantial traces of their lives many millennia later.

By all the rules of paleontology, such traces of life should have long since drained from the bones.

Marshall and his colleagues proved the concept of testing for vanadium on known microfossils with acknowledged biological origins on Earth — organic microfossils called acritarchs that might not be far from the kinds of traces of life possibly existing on the Red Planet.

The earliest traces of life on Earth are at least 3.5 billion years old.

The epigenome is malleable and may harbor traces of life events that influence disease susceptibility, such as smoking, depression and menopause, which may influence susceptibility to Alzheimer's and other diseases.»

Farmer suspects that seriously seeking traces of life requires deep drilling on Mars.

A research biologist in the Marine Mammal Genetics Group at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, Calif., Hancock - Hanser and her colleagues tease information from the tiniest traces of life.

First, since traces of life are everywhere on Earth, the amino acids could be simply contamination from terrestrial sources, either from material brought to the moon by the missions, or from contamination introduced while the samples were being handled back on Earth.

The first traces of life appear in the fossil record around 3.5 billion years ago in the form of microbial mounds in Western Australia known as stromatolites.

Cinema is a photographic trace of life.

traditional architecture and material traces of living non-monumental cultures, including technical heritage and unbuilt sacred places

The canvas plays obviously with the painted gesture, but the blankness of the image denies its own trace of the living artist.

In 2013 at the Auschwitz - Birkenau State Museum, Poland, Rovner created Traces of Life: The World of the Children, devoted to the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered in the Shoah.

Similarly, Pearl C. Hsiung explores the notion of creation in the microcosm, representing cosmic beings created in an epic volcanic eruption in the fantastical painting Shecretes, while Stephanie Taylor's markings in Interstellar Paw Print suggest traces of life on an ambiguous topographical landscape.

Thursday, June 13, 2013 marked the opening of the new Permanent Exhibition Shoah in Block 27 at the Auschwitz - Birkenau State Museum, presenting new work Traces of Life: The World of the Children by Michal Rovner.

Including work by Alice Channer, Felix Gonzalez - Torres, Isa Genzken, On Kawara, Fred Sandback, and Francesca Woodman, the exhibition reveals our innate desire to make and mark traces of our lives, exploring time not just as a subject matter, but also as an engine of relativity.

DA: From around the time of the Peggy Guggenheim show in early 1946 through to the mid 1950s, Still was exploring the flip side of landscape — the beleaguered traces of the living presence that in his existential scenario activated its spaces.

Materials such as blood, bone and ash become pigments that stain the floor and mark the walls; traces of life simultaneously anonymous and intimate.

Sands contacted Brent Christner, a postdoc at Montana State who had cut his teeth searching for traces of life in 100,000 - year - old Antarctic ice, and invited him to expand his search for life into the clouds.

Although we are some time off from probing a distant potentially habitable world's atmosphere for the presence of liquid water or chemical traces of life, Kepler - along with supporting observations by other space - and ground - based instrumentation - is giving us a tantalizing hint of the preponderance of small rocky worlds in the Milky Way.

Instead, comets have traces of life from Earth.4 [See «Rosetta Mission» on p. 312.]

«Traces of life on nearest exoplanets may be hidden in equatorial trap.»

They didn't find aliens, but they did discover traces of life: human boot prints on the moon and rover trails meandering over Mars.

Clouds of noxious fumes and slow - cooling lava wipe out any traces of life.

The mission would include a lander spending 35 days on the moon's surface to sample and screen material for traces of life; an orbiter spending three months taking measurements to unravel the basic structure of the planet; and the orbiter crashing into the moon, gathering data on Europa's tenuous atmosphere on the way down.

To Schweitzer, it meant that traces of life might still cling to those bones.

Even if it holds no trace of life, Black Beauty has plenty to captivate scientists.

The most important would be planting a lander on the moon's surface for 35 days to sample and screen material for traces of life, such as biomolecules and metabolites.

Your article on searching for the origins of life in billion - year - old water samples was interesting (5 July, p 8), but the statement that «as far as the team could tell, the water contained no trace of life» is suspect.

While biologists long to sample this underground world for traces of life that may have been isolated for millions of years, the new evidence raises concerns that drilling for samples could contaminate the entire ecosystem.

From now on, this new geography will have to be taken into account when studying early Mars to look for traces of life or for an ocean, for instance.

Crucially, as far as the team could tell, the water contained no trace of life.

Rogers and his team examined this for traces of life it may have picked up from the lake's waters.

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;

Traces of life in Lake Vostok reinforces both this conclusion and a recent flood.