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  Have We Found Alien Life?

  Microbes that eat and breathe electricity have forced scientists to reimagine how life works—on this planet and others

  ... electrical grids. El-Naggar's bacterial video project began as an effort to ... and human cells may have important, almost entirely unexplored health implications. ...

  By Corey S. Powell
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  The most important science policy issue in every state

  A state-by-state breakdown of policies that could change your community.

  ... of thousands of homes, economically important fisheries, and tourist centers like ... runoff standards for new construction projects, regulators have proposed more easements ...

  By April Reese
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  Notes from the 2005 Pop!Tech Conference, Camden, Maine

  ... the potential space tourists. New project: Rocket racing league. Building 10 ... to publish information The most important inputs into the core economic ...
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  NASA's Next Mission Will Be a New Mars Lander, a Comet Hopper, or a Lunar Sailboat

  It's decision time

  ... of Titan? NASA will pick one winner from these three projects, the ... choose among three technology demonstration projects designed to look for more ...

  By Rebecca Boyle
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  Ringed Victory

  Scientists are triumphant over extraordinary new images from Saturn and its moons--rivers of methane, ice volcanoes, ferocious storms and more

  ... much larger Cassini--would land on. Titan's thick, nitrogen-based atmosphere is opaque ... puzzles," says Linda Spilker, deputy project scientist for the Cassini mission. ...
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  Q&A: How to Rate the Habitability of Other Planets

  What's the most habitable planet?

  ... important with Mars. Current Mars, in its planetary habitability, is below Titan. ... very different from our biochemistry. Titan has these ethane and methane ...

  By Rebecca Boyle
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  17-Petaflop Titan Supercomputer Is Now Officially The World's Fastest

  American supercomputers now make up half of the top 10 fastest machines on the planet.

  ... expected Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Titan has unseated Lawrence Livermore National ... consumption (or size). That's very important going forward. The goal across ...

  By Clay Dillow
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  BigPic: NASA Discovers Largest River Ever Seen On Another World

  NASA scientists are comparing Titan's river to a Nile full of flowing liquid hydrocarbons.

  ... is an as-yet-unnamed river on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. This picture ... the liquid hydrocarbon sea. That project could still live to see ...

  By Rebecca Boyle
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  Mystery Science Theater

  PopSci tackles life's whys, hows and who-dunnits in this Q&A-style; feature

  ... breast milk? We've covered these important bases and more to help ...
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  Excerpt From '2312'

  2312 is available on Amazon.

  ... the bacteria now transforming Venus, Titan, Triton—everywhere. Now none of ... to some of our most important projects, and her death was so ...
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  Buzz Aldrin Wants To Send People On A One-Way Trip To Mars

  In a wide-ranging interview with PopularScience.com, Aldrin talks about a mission to Mars, 34 years of sobriety and the future of American leadership in space.

  ... off the ground. First, the project would include a practice run ... get started? What's the most important aspect? Aldrin: The first element ...

  By Rebecca Boyle
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  Guess What's Cooking in the Garage

  The next big breakthrough in synthetic biology just might come from an amateur scientist

  ... next step of her latest project. She wanted to insert a ... , an engineer who wrote an important paper around the time the ...
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  Is Anyone Out There? Searching for Aliens in the PopSci Archives

  Bogus canals on Mars, alien germs from Venus and the "truth" behind UFOs

  ... plans to explore Mars and Titan for signs of life, while ...

  By Denise Ngo
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  As Rome digs its first new metro route in decades, an archaeologist safeguards the city's buried treasures

  How to build a subway in the Eternal City.

  ... director of the Metro C project, an effort to extend Rome's ... : When you dig, you find important stuff, and then your site ...

  By Kate Morgan
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  What's really behind baseball's recent home run surge

  It might not (just) be foul play.

  At the 2019 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, ... rooms to store baseballs in 2019. Most common HVAC systems not ...
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  Virtual Hearts, Fanged Deer And Other Amazing Images Of The Week

  Plus a drone's-eye-view of Greenland

  By Alissa Zhu
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  Space Aurora, Popeular Science, and Other Amazing Images of the Week

  Plus, the back of my eye

  By Levi Sharpe
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  Europeans looked down on Neanderthals—until they realized they shared their DNA

  Excerpt: Superior

  ... goalposts somewhere.”The discovery had important consequences. It raked up a ... to be. “We're free to project good qualities, things we admire ...
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  New Cassini Findings Show Possible Signs of Methane-Based Life on Titan

  ... organic molecules on Saturn's moon Titan, and the recipe matches astrobiologists' ... be distributed pretty evenly throughout Titan's atmosphere. But it's disappearing at ...

  By Rebecca Boyle
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  Smog on Titan Moon May Hold Ingredients For Life, New Study Says

  In a simulation, a Titan-like atmosphere produces nearly all of life's building blocks

  ... these molecules without water, suggesting Titan could harbor huge quantities of ... genesis of life on Earth. Titan's atmosphere might be chemically similar ...

  By Rebecca Boyle
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  Judging By Its Funny Orbit, The Moon Titan May Have a Massive Ocean

  ... Cassini mission, scientists have determined Titan orbits Saturn in a similar ... Back in 2008, scientists studying Titan's surface features noticed that things ...

  By Rebecca Boyle
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  Vinyl cyanide found on Titan—aliens, have at it

  The compound might be suitable for cell membranes.

  ... telescope at something well-known, like Titan, and measure its brightness. Once ... five percent methane composition of Titan's atmosphere. The team believe that ...

  By Marissa Shieh
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  Life Discovered Thriving in Trinidadian Lake of Hydrocarbons, Suggesting Titan Could Support Life Too

  ... challenges widely accepted notions: that Titan is too harsh an environment ... makeup of Pitch Lake versus Titan's hydrocarbon lakes, etc. So there's ...

  By Clay Dillow
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  Chicken Little or Planetary Savior?

  Astronomy: Timothy Ferris eyes the amateur asteroid-watchers.

  ... with Earth on February 1, 2019, wasn't the worst cosmic news ... , Ferris explains, have always been important. Steve O'Meara, for example, used ...