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Variety Is the Splice of Life
Mark Young from NAI’s Montana State University Team and Jill Banfield from NAI’s Emeritus Team at UC Berkeley have teamed up to study genetic exchange in bacterial and archeal populations. They’re new Science paper, Variety—...
Could Kepler Find Avatar\'s Moon Pandora?
In the new blockbuster Avatar, humans visit the habitable – and inhabited – alien moon called Pandora. Life-bearing moons like Pandora or the Star Wars forest moon of Endor are a staple of science fiction. With NASA’s Kepler miss...
Salt Ponds Could Be Clue to Life on Mars
Rocco Mancinelli, PI of NAI’s Emeritus Team at the SETI Institute, will use a zeppelin airship to watch red salt ponds turn green while the environment is changed from near-Martian conditions into wetlands. Work will begin next year on a de...
First Super-Earths Discovered Around Sun-like Stars
Two nearby stars have been found to harbor “super-Earths”― rocky planets larger than the Earth but smaller than ice giants such as Uranus and Neptune. Unlike previously discovered stars with super-Earths, both of the stars are similar to the Su...
Teachers are the Students at Georgia Tech
Since its inception in 1991, The Georgia Intern-Fellowship for Teachers (GIFT) program at Georgia Tech has placed STEM teachers in more than 1,400 summer research positions in industry and academia statewide. Georgia Tech also pairs GIFT teachers ...
IceBite Blog: Learning to Respect the Weather
NASA’s IceBite project will spend three austral summers in Antarctica testing ice-penetrating drills for a future mission to Mars. A team of seven scientists is in Antarctica now for the first field season, installing scientific probes in the ice a...

