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 Latest NAI Newsletter
14 November 2009
For the latest NAI Newsletter (13
November 2008), please click here....
NASA Selects Carnegie Institution (CIW) for Astrobiology Institute!!
03 October 2008
 NASA awarded five-year
grants, averaging seven
million dollars each, to
10 research teams from
across the country to
study the origins,
evolution, distribution,
and future of life in the
universe....
CIW NAI Co-Investigator James Farquhar Recipient of a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship
30 November 1999
 CIW NAI Co-Investigator
and University of
Maryland Associate
Professor James
Farquhar (Earth
System Science
Interdisciplinary...
Four CIW/NAI Students Selected to Attend the Josep Comas i Solà International Summer School in Astrobiology.
08 May 2008
 Patrick Griffin, Lauren
Kerr, Adrienne Kish, and
Isamu Matsuyama have been
awarded NASA Astrobiology
Institute Scholarships to
attend the Jos
ep Comas...
Summer School in Astrobiology
25 April 2008
 The following is a letter
from NAI director Carl
Pilcher encouraging
students to apply for the
Josep Comas i Sola
International Summer
School in Astrobiology in
Santander, Spain. Dear
NAI PI, The...
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New Insight on Life's Origin
17 October 2008
The building blocks of life may have emerged
in volcanic eruptions on the early Earth,
according to a new analysis of classic
experiments performed more than fifty years
ago. Using modern techniques to examine
samples from the original experiments,
researchers discovered previously
undetectable organic compounds. The results,
reported in the October 17 issue
of Science, point to the possible
contribution of volcanism to the beginning of
life on Earth. The original experiments,
performed by Stanley Miller at the University
of Chicago in 1953 and 1954 (Miller died in
2007), were the first to demonstrate that the
basic molecules of life could be synthesized
by subjecting hydrogen-rich gases (such as
methane and ammonia) to an...
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