#xenobiology — Public Fediverse posts

A MOMENT OF SILENT REFLECTION ... for all the craziness in this world. Meow. #caturday #errtlings #bookcafe #news #society #ballroom #war #peace #crime #punishment #writing #art #ai #android_dreams #space #religion #philosophy #good #evil #media #halloween #paranormal_things #xenobiology #junk

Webb spots strongest 'hints' yet of life on distant planet
https://www.rte.ie/news/science/2025/0417/1508109-webb-telescope/
#xenobiology #astrobiology #biology #webbtelescope

Where No E. Coli Has Gone Before https://hackaday.com/2025/02/24/where-no-e-coli-has-gone-before/ #xenobiology #exoplanets #seti@home #bacteria #Space #Ecoli #SETI

Today, in crazy #SciFi research - reinventing #photosynthesis . This type of Cu–Pd disordered network metamaterials can convert #CO2 into simple organic molecules by interaction with light, but it needs to be rather hot (225–300 °C). Can't but think of the Interesting implication for #xenobiology, in addition to what it can do for matter synthesis.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c05426

How did life get started?

I just read a really cool paper, revisiting a classic origin-of-life experiment. Like Miller and Urey before them, these researchers simulated a tiny pond on ancient earth, and struck it with "lightning."

They confirmed this produces biochemicals, but this time they used advanced microscopy to show it also produces tiny bubbles that look surprisingly lifelike on their own, and could serve as shelters for protolife.

Awesome finding! This really could have been important for life's origins (though, to be properly alive, the protocell would need to be able to make its own vesicle, and divide it). It's a little disheartening, though, as this new evidence makes the search for microbial fossils that much harder.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2413816122

#science #life #biology #cosmology #xenobiology

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #412: Lake Vostok.
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#lakevostok #antarctica #lakes #aliens #science #xenobiology #underground #southpole #vostok #webcomics #comics #didyouknow #strangebuttrue #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

#MassimoPigliucci - #Philosophy of #Alien #Life & #Intelligence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5VaV8zyOuw

#PhilosophyOfScience #Science #PhilosophyOfBiology #Biology #Astrobiology #Astrophysics #Evolution #Xenobiology #SETI #Drake #DrakeEquation #Fermi #EnricoFermi #FermiParadox #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

Another cool idea (no pun intended) on where else life might develop. Sci-Fi writers, on your mark, get set, go!

#exoplanets #xenobiology #eyeballplanets

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/forget-earth-like-we-ll-first-find-aliens-on-eyeball-planets

The technology is out there! 😉

‘Amazing’ new technology set to transform the search for alien life;

A conference in the UK this week will outline new developments in a project to look for ‘technosignatures’ of other advanced species

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/13/amazing-new-technology-set-to-transform-the-search-for-alien-life

#science #news #SETI #PhoneHome #ET #Extraterrestrial #astronomy #xenobiology #technology

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-from-space/id1634360886?i=1000641770027

#podcast #FermiParadox #xenobiology

Here's an obscure one, courtesy of library volunteer, Silverblue 🙏

This companion book to IN OTHER WATERS is packed full of incredible sketches of the creatures and ecosystem of exoplanet "Gliese 667Cc".

Read more about it in #TheVideoGameLibrary:

👉https://thevideogamelibrary.org/book/a-study-of-gliese-667cc

#JumpOverTheAge #GarethDamianMartin #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Game #Gaming #Gamer #VideoGame #VideoGames #Steam #Gliese667Cc #InOtherWaters #PCGaming #PCGame #Ocean #Sea #MarineLife #Biology #Xenobiology

Throwback to a #speculativeBiology project I did for a class as an undergrad at a junior #college. I wanted to theorize what life could evolve on #Europa and I as fueled by a love of #cephalopods and #AlienPlanet and other #speculative projects this was the result.

It's all very old, so be gentle. Some of these ideas worked their way into some of my more recent work: https://www.hpkomics.com/secret/europa/

#science #xenoBiology #education

What If #Alien #Life Were #Silicon-Based?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=469chceiiUQ&ab_channel=PBSSpaceTime

#Science #Zoology #XenoBiology #Biology #Physics #Chemistry #Elements #PeriodicTable #Biochemistry #Evolution #AlienLife #SiliconBased #SiliconBasedLife #SiliconChemistry #SiliconBiochemistry #CarbonBased #CarbonBasedLife #PBS #SpaceTime #PBSSpaceTime #MattODowd