News articles tagged with 'hydrothermal'
Mars volcanic deposit tells of warm and wet environment
— 31 Oct 2010 18:16 | AstronomyRoughly 3.5 billion years ago, the first epoch on Mars ended. The climate on the red planet then shifted dramatically from a relatively warm, wet period to one that was arid and cold.…
Transition metal catalysts could be key to origin of life, scientists report
— 4 Sep 2010 10:51 | BiologyOne of the big, unsolved problems in explaining how life arose on Earth is a chicken-and-egg paradox: How could the basic biochemicals - such as amino acids and nucleotides - have arisen…
Rocks on Mars may provide link to evidence of living organisms roughly 4 billion years ago
— 30 Jul 2010 09:49 | AstronomyA new article in press of the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters unveils groundbreaking research on the hydrothermal formation of Clay-Carbonate rocks in the Nili Fossae region…
Expedition to Mid-Cayman Rise identifies unusual variety of deep sea vents
— 21 Jul 2010 08:24 | EnvironmentThe first expedition to search for deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the Mid-Cayman Rise has turned up three distinct types of hydrothermal venting, reports an interdisciplinary team…
Pressure-cooking algae into a better biofuel
— 24 Apr 2010 10:25 | TechnologyHeating and squishing microalgae in a pressure-cooker can fast-forward the crude-oil-making process from millennia to minutes…
Long-distance larvae speed to new undersea vent homes
— 13 Apr 2010 09:08 | EnvironmentWorking in a rare, 'natural seafloor laboratory' of hydrothermal vents that had just been rocked by a volcanic eruption, scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)…
New research rejects 80-year theory of 'primordial soup' as the origin of life
— 3 Feb 2010 11:34 | Geology and palaeontologyFor 80 years it has been accepted that early life began in a 'primordial soup' of organic molecules before evolving out of the oceans millions of years later. Today the 'soup' theory…
Microbe understudies await their turn in the limelight
— 12 Jan 2010 11:11 | BiologyOn the marine microbial stage, there appears to be a vast, varied group of understudies only too ready to step in when 'star' microbes falter…
Asteroid attack 3.9 billion years ago may have enhanced early life on Earth
— 21 May 2009 11:16 | Geology and palaeontologyThe bombardment of Earth nearly 4 billion years ago by asteroids as large as Kansas would not have had the firepower to extinguish potential early life on the planet and may even have…
Marine scientists return from expedition to erupting undersea volcano
— 5 May 2009 18:45 | EnvironmentScientists who have just returned from an expedition to an erupting undersea volcano near the Island of Guam report that the volcano appears to be continuously active, has grown considerably…