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Chemistry World December 8, 2014 James Urquhart	Asteroid bombardment of early Earth may have created building blocks of life Scientists in the Czech Republic and US have shown how asteroid collisions with early Earth could have sparked reactions that produced the basic chemical building blocks of life four billion years ago.
Geotimes November 2004 Jay Chapman	Impacting the Origin of Life Impact events and meteorite strikes are often associated with mass extinctions and widespread devastation. But, despite this destructive reputation, impact events may have played a role in the evolution of life, according to several new studies.
Chemistry World September 25, 2014 Simon Hadlington	First interstellar sighting of a branched alkyl molecule The radiotelescope in Atacama, Chile, has found the first branched molecule ever seen in interstellar space
Chemistry World April 8, 2008 Mark Peplow	Meteorite Source for Life's Handedness Scientists have long speculated that life's preference for left-handed amino acids may have been triggered by compounds brought to Earth by meteorites. Now they've shown exactly how two crucial steps in this process could happen.
Chemistry World September 16, 2014 Patrick Walter	Computer simulations point to formamide as prebiotic intermediate in 'Miller' mixtures Formamide may have played a key role in the genesis of life
Chemistry World November 3, 2014 Tim Wogan	Earth ripe for life soon after formation There has been water on Earth since shortly after it formed, say researchers from the US, who compared the deuterium to hydrogen ratios in water on Earth and from the Vesta asteroid belt.
Chemistry World March 29, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Seeds of life incubated in proto-planetary nurseries New findings imply that the organic chemistry required to produce the necessary molecules for life is part of the normal processes of planet formation.
Chemistry World September 12, 2010 Mike Brown	Comet shockwaves helped stimulate life on Earth The shock waves caused as comets hit the early Earth could have helped promote the formation of amino acids and the early building blocks of life, say US researchers.
Chemistry World December 8, 2008 Hayley Birch	Meteorites hitting oceans may have kick-started life Japanese scientists have done laboratory experiments to test the idea.
Chemistry World June 30, 2015 Jessie-May Morgan	Space-like conditions give rise to metabolic precursors Mimicking interstellar conditions, a team of scientists at NASA has synthesized complex organic molecules thought to be necessary for the origin of life.
Chemistry World March 17, 2015 Andy Extance	Reaction map suggests meteorite chemistry route to life UK chemists have found a reaction network that they believe shows that 'pretty much everyone' working on life's molecular origins is wrong -- but also 'right, in a sense'.
Chemistry World July 2, 2014 Tim Wogan	Miller's forgotten experiments point to primitive protein genesis Stanley Miller's experiments are still adding to our understanding of prebiotic Earth.
Chemistry World October 16, 2008 Hayley Birch	Miller's legacy: new clues to origins of life Scientists have re-examined dried residues in 50-year-old vials from classic 'primordial soup' experiments to glean new information about how life originated on Earth.
Chemistry World December 17, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Blow to Hopes for Life on Mars Organic molecules found on rocks from Mars may not be the remnants of ancient Martian microbes after all.
Chemistry World July 13, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Where did Earth's water come from? One big question that remains unanswered about the evolution of the early Earth is how volatiles such as hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon arrived -- their presence being crucial to the origins of water and life.
Geotimes December 2006 Sally Adee	Meteorite Pre-Dates Solar System A team of NASA researchers recently reported finding organic material in Tagish Lake meteorite fragments that pre-dates the solar system.
Geotimes January 2007 Sally Adee	Meteorite Pre-Dates Solar System When the Tagish Lake meteorite crashed to Earth in 2000, researchers suspected that it would provide one more clue to the origin of life, but instruments were not yet sophisticated enough to confirm a connection. That connection could soon turn up.
Chemistry World February 24, 2012 Yuandi Li	Computers look at life-giving reactions in space Theoretical chemistry could answer some questions about how life on earth originated, say Australian researchers.
Salon.com June 29, 2001 Suzy Hansen	We've got company Astronomer David Darling talks about the controversial science of astrobiology and the near-certainty that extraterrestrial life forms exist in our solar system...
Chemistry World March 21, 2011 Michael Gross	Origin of life experiments revisited Modern analysis of forgotten samples has given chemists in the US additional insights the origins of life on Earth.
Chemistry World March 13, 2008 Kira Welter	Planets' Birthplace Harbours Chemical Seeds of Life Astrochemists have for the first time directly observed both organic molecules and water vapour in the region around a young star where planets form.
Chemistry World April 23, 2014 Tim Wogan	New solution to missing xenon paradox A new answer to where Earth's missing xenon has gone -- the planet's atmosphere contains less than 10% of the gas anticipated -- has been put forward.
Geotimes October 2005 Naomi Lubick	Moon Soil, Earth Air? Apollo astronauts brought back samples of soil from the moon that contained unexpectedly high levels of nitrogen. New research is shedding light on the anomaly.
Chemistry World May 13, 2014 Tim Wogan	Chemistry calculations reveal Earth's inner core Theoretical calculations have confirmed that the Earth's core contains a significant proportion of oxygen.
Chemistry World June 16, 2011	Forming the First Sugars with Formose Reactions Hydrothermal synthesis could provide greener synthesis methods as well as information about the origin of life.
Chemistry World May 13, 2009 James Urquhart	Insight into RNA origins UK researchers have offered new insight into the origins of RNA and possibly life itself.
Chemistry World August 25, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Meteorites Are a Chip Off the Old Asteroid Block New findings confirm that the most common type of meteorite found on Earth derive from so-called stony or S-type asteroids.
Chemistry World April 15, 2010 Lewis Brindley	Mars meteor gets a boost of youth A Martian meteorite that has played a pivotal role in our understanding of the Solar System has been found to be half a billion years younger than previously thought, say US researchers.
Chemistry World March 12, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Chemical building blocks produce a wellspring of organic molecules Scientists in the US have developed an automated platform to create small organic molecules from a set of simple of chemical building blocks.
Popular Mechanics December 16, 2008 Matthew Hutson	5 Projects Ask if Life on Earth Began as Alien Life in Space For years, scientists have considered the possibility of exogenesis, the idea that life arrived on Earth from another planet, and not just the building blocks of life, but organisms that were ready to rock and roll when they arrived.
Chemistry World May 25, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Mars is the planet that never grew up Scientists in the US have analysed isotopes in meteorites that resemble Martian geology and have discovered that the planet stopped growing while its solar system siblings carried on developing.
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Chemistry World April 16, 2015 Tim Wogan	Early Earth collision could clear up two geological mysteries Two seemingly unconnected geology problems -- the unexpected ratio of two neodymium isotopes in terrestrial rocks and the energy source for the dynamo that creates Earth's magnetic field -- could be solved by a new theory.
Chemistry World April 25, 2014 Rachel Wood	Decoding interstellar carbon The detection of molecules such as fullerenes -- molecules composed entirely of carbon, including the spherical C 60 -- has revealed a more complicated picture of carbon in space.
Geotimes February 2007 Sally Adee	Escape From Snowball Earth Early Earth didn't do things half-way: It may or may not have ever been a solidly frozen "snowball" in the deep geological past, but it was never a half-frozen ball of slush, according to a new study.
Wired December 2004 Patrick Di Justo	Mysteries of the Cosmos The top 13 places to explore in outer space.
Chemistry World November 19, 2014 Rebecca Trager	Watching carbon dioxide's globetrotting New high-resolution simulations depicting how local geography affects the transport of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere have been created by NASA.
Technology Research News June 29, 2005	Self-assembly: the natural way to make things In biology, there are a few different ways DNA molecules can be replicated and combined.
Geotimes July 2004 Sara Pratt	Core Compositions Scientists are working to explain the differences in composition between Earth and Mars.
Scientific American September 2008 David Appell	The Sun Will Eventually Engulf Earth--Maybe Researchers debate whether Earth will be swallowed by the sun as it expands into a red giant billions of years from now
Science News May 9, 2009	Science Past From The Issue Of May 9, 1959 Scientists predict 25% increase in carbon dioxide by the year 2000.
Chemistry World February 13, 2014 Simon Poulton	The Earth as a cradle for life This enjoyable book by Stacey and Hodgkinson takes a long-term view of Earth's development as a habitable planet, incorporating physical, chemical and biological processes on the early Earth, to the modern world.
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Gregory L. Matloff	Deflecting Asteroids A solar sail could use light to nudge an earthbound rock into an orbit we could live with
Science News September 20, 2003	More Mars -- Better than Ever On Aug. 27, Mars and Earth were closer to each other than at any other time in the last 50,000 years. Even as Earth and Mars slowly draw apart, the Red Planet remains a dazzling sight in the night sky. There's still time to take in the view.
Chemistry World August 21, 2009 Matt Wilkinson	Aluminium helps date solar system New evidence has been found that supports the use of the radioactive aluminium isotope as a way of precisely dating objects formed during the first few million years of the solar system.
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Geotimes July 2007 Carolyn Gramling	X-ray Eyes in the Sky Scientists are working on the next generation of low-orbiting satellites that they hope will see far past the Earth's surface and into its interior, to better understand the structure and composition of Earth's crust, mantle and core.
Science News March 10, 2007	Science Safari: National Environmental Education Week This web site provides information on the annual National Environmental Education Week that will culminate with Earth Day.
AskMen.com	Earth-Like Planet Found Astronomers have finally found a place outside our solar system where there's a firm place to stand -- if only it weren't so broiling hot.
Science News April 11, 2009	Life In Space: Astrobiology For Everyone This book explains how the search for extraterrestrial life helps us understand Earth.