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Sahara Desert dust is helping oceans thrive

Iron is a micronutrient indispensable for life, enabling processes such as respiration, photosynthesis, and DNA synthesis. Iron availability is often a limiting resource in today’s oceans, which means that increasing the flow of iron into them can increase the amount of carbon fixed by phytoplankton, with consequences for the global...

By UCR News | September 26, 2024 | Science / Technology
proxima centauri seen from the hubble telescope

Carbon monoxide detectors could warn of extraterrestrial life

For some distant worlds, carbon monoxide may actually be compatible with a robust microbial biosphere

By Sarah Simpson | March 18, 2019 | Science / Technology
Illustration of Earth as seen from space. Credit: RPI

New NASA research consortium to tackle life's origins

NASA is uniting experts across multiple disciplines to investigate life's beginnings on our planet -- and to explore if and how life sprung up elsewhere in the universe

By PCE3 Consortium | February 14, 2019 | Science / Technology
A photo of fossils

Special journal issue looks for new clues about old life

Collection edited by UCR researchers focuses on the role of rising oxygen in the birth of complex life

By Sarah Nightingale | October 22, 2018 | Science / Technology

Scientists honored by American Geophysical Union

Marilyn Fogel and Timothy Lyons will be honored as new fellows during December meeting

By Sarah Nightingale | August 9, 2018 | Science / Technology
Planet Earth, from space.

UCR team among scientists developing guidebook for finding life beyond earth

Major series of review articles outlines past, present, and future of searching for life on other planets

By Sarah Nightingale | June 25, 2018 | Science / Technology

Search for life beyond the solar system topic of faculty research lecture

Timothy Lyons will deliver the 66th annual lecture at UC Riverside

By Sarah Nightingale | May 16, 2018 | Science / Technology
exomoon orbiting planet

Atmospheric seasons could signal alien life

UCR researchers are using seasonal changes in the Earth’s atmosphere to guide their search for life outside the solar system

By Sarah Nightingale | May 9, 2018 | Science / Technology
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