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Just out in Nature Communications: cytosine and thymine now added to the list of nucleobases found in meteorites! nature.com/articles/s4146… Also for a commentary of the findings: nasa.gov/feature/goddar…

We are excited for the inaugural seminar of the LIFE RCN Seminar Series tomorrow! It will be given by Dr. Tori Hoehler from NASA Ames. The title of his talk is “The Metabolic Rate of the Biosphere and its Components” The seminar will be held at 1PM ET/5PM UTC. #astrobiology

New preprint: ATP is the energy currency of life as we know it. We show that the use of ATP goes way back in time by the life-essential enzyme nitrogenase and it was a biophysical necessity. In collaboration with the Seefeldt lab, congrats Derek & Holly! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out this exciting new paper from Jiang et al.! Mimicking lightning-induced electrochemistry on the early Earth | PNAS pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

Building and Maintaining a Habitable World and the Early Conditions that Could Favor Life's Beginnings on Earth and Beyond astrobiology.com/2024/11/buildi… #astrobiology #habitability #exoplanet #astronomy #telescope

SOUND ON. You’re hearing the first howl of a dire wolf in over 10,000 years. Meet Romulus and Remus—the world’s first de-extinct animals, born on October 1, 2024. The dire wolf has been extinct for over 10,000 years. These two wolves were brought back from extinction using

Archean Methane Cycling and Life's Co-Evolution: Intertwining Early Biogeochemical Processes and Ancient Microbial Metabolism astrobiology.com/2025/04/archea… #astrobiology #originoflife #evolution

Join us tomorrow, May 13th, at 11 AM ET/3 PM UTC for our next seminar (a DOUBLE header!) featuring Dr. Jennifer Macalady (Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social) from Geosciences Dept PSU and Dr. Alta Howells from CU Boulder 🦬 #astrobiology