Mars Organic Geochemistry-Are We Alone, and Where Did We Come From?
As NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit began collecting images for a 360-degree panorama of new terrain, the rover…
Asteroid Hosts All Ingredients for DNA and RNA
The basic ingredients for life as we know it are common in the cosmos. Scientists are still learning…
Drought amplifies warming-induced soil carbon loss in a decade-long experiment
García-Palacios, P. et al. Evidence for large microbial-mediated losses of soil carbon under anthropogenic warming. Nat. Rev. Earth…
Iron-respiring microbes could have a role in sulfur cycling
Fike, D. A., Bradley, A. S. & Rose, C. V. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 43, 593–622 (2015).…