Astronomers say the nearby red dwarf star Gliese 887 appears to have more dangerous flare activity than first believed. This could make life tough – but maybe not impossible – on its family of super-Earth planets. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/red-dwarf-gliese-887-flares-in-ultraviolet-light…
Tag: Living Organisms
MIT Builds Robot Hand That Can ‘See and Feel’ Objects
Robotic hands capable of picking up objects as fragile as a crisp by “sensing” objects have been developed by researchers. The Independent reports: Two new tools built by MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) offer a breakthrough in the emerging field of soft robotics — a new generation of robots that use squishy, flexible materials rather than traditional rigid…
Earth’s first life may have fuelled itself with a metal metabolism
The first living organisms had to make essential carbon-based chemicals, and they may have done it by harnessing the chemical power of metals like nickel Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2240552-earths-first-life-may-have-fuelled-itself-with-a-metal-metabolism/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
What’s cool about Curiosity’s discovery of organic molecules on Mars
The Curiosity rover has found organic molecules called thiophenes, which, on Earth, are associated with biological systems. Are they evidence for once-living microbes on Mars? Source: https://earthsky.org/space/thiophenes-organic-molecules-curiosity-rover-mars-life…