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Geotimes
August 2006
Carolyn Gramling |
Early Life Lines Make Waves Life on Earth just got a little older. New evidence from an ancient rock formation in Australia is bolstering one side of a long-standing debate: that the earliest life on Earth helped shape thousands of finely-layered sediment mounds within the rock.   |
Chemistry World
January 15, 2009
Simon Hadlington |
Curvaceous crystals Spanish scientists have shown how elaborately curved crystalline structures, similar to those typically made by living organisms, can grow from simple solutions of metal carbonates. |
Geotimes
March 2005
Sara Pratt |
Rocky Debate Over Early Life Scientists fail to replicate a 1996 study on 3.85-billion-year-old rocks that pushed back the date of the earliest evidence for life on Earth by several hundred million years. |
Geotimes
May 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Mineral-Making Microbes For the first time, researchers have found direct evidence that microbes can create templates for unique mineral growth. The discovery could inspire new avenues for materials research, as well as for the search for evidence of life on Earth and other planets. |
Geotimes
April 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Tiny Fossils go 3-D Using existing digital technology, paleobiologists for the first time viewed intricate structures of tiny fossils in 3-D - a technique that they say could one day aid in the search for life on Mars. |
Chemistry World
December 19, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Carbonates Confirmed on Mars New snapshots of Mars appear to show large outcrops of carbonate-bearing rocks, indicating that regions of the Red Planet could once have been an ideal environment for life to thrive. |
Geotimes
June 2007
Megan Sever |
Colossal Crystals Discovered in Cave In one of the largest lead and silver mines in the world, workers discovered what researchers are calling the "cathedral" of giant gypsum crystals about 300 meters below ground. |
Chemistry World
June 25, 2012 |
Chemistry in Evolution In "Evolution's Destiny," the authors explore the role of chemistry in evolution, and in particular the changing role of inorganic elements in the evolution of the ecosystem. |
Geotimes
October 2003
Naomi Lubick |
Water clues from martian carbonates For the first time, scientists have convincingly detected small yet possibly widespread amounts of carbonate minerals in the dust on Mars' surface. The findings provide new hints about water on Mars, as well as the history of the planet's atmosphere. |
Chemistry World
July 24, 2009
Nina Notman |
Chiral isotropic liquids from achiral molecules Boomerang-shaped liquid crystal phase molecules that don't exhibit 'handedness' (chirality) have been found to form unusual chiral structures that spontaneously separate into left- and right-handed domains. |
Chemistry World
February 1, 2008
Victoria Gill |
Snapshots Reveal Bone Mineral's Strength Secret Researchers in the Netherlands have produced the first real-time, three-dimensional images of the formation of calcium carbonate crystals, a robust biological mineral that holds promise as a future bone replacement material. |
