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May 9th, 2013 | 
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Bizarre 12 cm-long skeleton baffles scientists and UFO enthusiasts – Zee News
Zee News To much chagrin of UFO hunters, Ata is decidedly of this world, after mapping more than 500 million reads to a reference human genome, equating to 17.7-fold coverage of the genome, Nolan concluded that the specimen's B2 haplotype-a category of … |
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Bizarre skeleton leaves UFO hunters and scientists baffled – The Age
The Age Alien? Subhuman primate? Deformed child? Mummified foetus? The internet is buzzing over the nature of "Ata", a bizarre 12-centimetre-long skeleton featured in a new documentary on UFOs. A Stanford University scientist who boldly entered the fray has … |
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Bizarre skeleton leaves UFO hunters and scientists baffled – WA Today
WA today Alien? Subhuman primate? Deformed child? Mummified foetus? The internet is buzzing over the nature of "Ata", a bizarre 12-centimetre-long skeleton featured in a new documentary on UFOs. A Stanford University scientist who boldly entered the fray has … |
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Bizarre skeleton leaves UFO hunters and scientists baffled
Sydney Morning Herald Alien? Subhuman primate? Deformed child? Mummified foetus? The internet is buzzing over the nature of "Ata", a bizarre 12-centimetre-long skeleton featured in a new documentary on UFOs. A Stanford University scientist who boldly entered the fray has … |
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An international group of scientists, government officials, and military personnel has been assembled to speak about the scientific investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena.
On June 29 and 30, more than ten researchers from around the world will convene for the 2013 Symposium on Official and Scientific Investigations of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena at the Greensboro War Memorial Auditorium in Greensboro, North Carolina. The event’s host and organizer, Kent Senter, has researched UFOs for nearly thirty years, and is one of the founding members of the Mutual UFO Network’s (MUFON) North Carolina chapter.
Kent Senter (Credit: cufornc)
The event’s website explains that Senter is battling an incurable cancer, so “he has decided to host this unique conference to help increase awareness of the need for scientific research and alleviate the taboo associated with this topic.”
As the News & Record points out, “The lineup of speakers includes high-level officials — a former NASA senior scientist. A retired Belgian major general. An Iranian Air Force fighter pilot.”
For the full list of speakers, and for all the event’s details, visit cufornc.com.
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On Monday, April 22, HuffPost Live featured a segment about theoretical invisible life that could exist on Earth. This segment, titled “Earth’s Alien Life,” featured HuffPost Senior Science Editor David Freeman, University of Colorado, Boulder Professor of Philosophy Carol Cleland, Arizona State University theoretical physicist and astrobiologist Paul Davies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Associate Professor of English David Toomey, and was hosted by HuffPost Live‘s Josh Zepps.
HuffPost Live’s segment about alien life on Earth. (Credit: HuffPost)
Carol Cleland and her colleague Shelley Copley coined the term “shadow bioshpere” in a 2006 paper in the International Journal of Astrobiology to describe the possible invisible life on our planet. According to the Guardian, Cleland explains, “On Earth we may be co-inhabiting with microbial lifeforms that have a completely different biochemistry from the one shared by life as we currently know it.” The Guardian explains that this theory is supported by many other scientists, including astrobiologists Chris McKay at NASA’s Ames Research Center and Paul Davies.
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If it turns out we have failed to realise that we have been sharing a planet with these shadowy lifeforms for eons, despite all the scientific advances of the 19th and 20th centuries, then we may need to think again about the way we hunt for life on other worlds. Robot spacecraft – such as the Mars rover Curiosity – are certainly sophisticated. But what chance do they have of detecting alien entities if the massed laboratories of modern science have not yet spotted them on our own planet?
Life as we know it is what astrobiologists look for in the search for extraterrestrial life. But if an alternative form of life on Earth is discovered, it would clearly impact the search for life on other worlds. On the HuffPost Live segment, Cleland explains:
Professor Carol Cleland. (Credit: CU Boulder)
It’s certainly a lot easier to search for it on Earth than it is on Mars because we have all kinds of tools and technologies available for looking for it, whereas we have to design them especially and haul them to Mars to look for unfamiliar life on Mars. So if there’s the possibility that such life exists on Earth, and I think, theoretically, there’s no reason at this time to dismiss it, then it makes much more sense, and I think it’s much more likely we would detect it here on Earth. The problem, of course, is the signal for extant life on Earth is so strong that we have to figure out ways of recognizing unfamiliar life and discriminating them from familiar life. And that’s the really hard part.
Scientists have proposed possible methods for detecting this “weird life,” but until it is detected, the shadow biosphere remains an interesting theory.
Watch the HuffPost Live segment at the top of this post.
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Researchers from fifteen UK research institutions have teamed up to search for extraterrestrial life. And a UFO encounter in Australia is being memorialized in a strange way. That and other space and UFO news on this episode of Spacing Out!
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Researchers from fifteen UK research institutions have teamed up to search for extraterrestrial life.
Professor Charles Cockell. (Credit: University of Edinburgh)
Internationally renowned astrobiologist Professor Charles Cockell leads Edinburgh University’s UK Centre for Astrobiology (UKCA). According to Scottish newspaper The Scotsman, the UKCA will “spearhead Britain’s hunt for aliens – bringing together researchers from 15 institutions across the country.”
Cockell recently stated that, with all the new data available about other planets, “It’s become a lot easier to understand whether conditions on those planets are habitable and if life could exist there.”
A key instrument at the UKCA is a cutting-edge vacuum chamber capable of simulating atmospheric conditions on alien planets. Additionally, as the Scotsman explains, “Among the trailblazing technologies deployed will be a laboratory buried more than a kilometre underground in Boulby Mine, Yorkshire, which will enable the study of creatures living deep below the surface of the Earth.” Cockell describes that the Boulby International Subsurface Astrobiology Laboratory (BISAL) “is actually part of a lab that’s already there and being used for dark matter research. The mine itself, which is a salt mine, is also still in use and it’s very deep. You have things living in the salt which are unique.”
In addition to looking for life on other worlds, astrobiologists study life in general, exploring the origins of life, and researching the types of environments in which life as we know it can exist. Cockell points out, “It’s all about better knowledge of extreme environments in outer space based on extreme environments right here on Earth.” Salty environments have been found on Mars, and Cockell explains that, by studying the lifeforms existing in the deep salt mine in Yorkshire, scientists can gain insight into the types of life that may currently exist on Mars.
The BBC reports that the UKCA will officially launch on Tuesday, April 16. But the UKCA has been active since 2012. In early 2013, the UKCA offered an introductory astrobiology course through the online course provider Coursera. The course reportedly attracted 40,000 students from around the world.
The Boulby International Subsurface Astrobiology Laboratory (BISAL). (Credit: UKCA)
The UKCA is affiliated with the NASA Astrobiology Institute, and collaborates with the following institutions:
- University of Bath
- University of Bradford
- University of Bristol
- Cranfield University
- Imperial College
- University of Kent
- University of Leeds
- University of Nottingham
- University of Leicester
- Open University
- University of Oxford
- Birkbeck, University of London
- University of East Anglia
- Astrobiology Society of Britain
Read more about the UKCA at http://www.astrobiology.ac.uk/
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Scientists Think Aliens Embedded Message in Our Genetic Code – Science Fiction
Science Fiction “Biological SETI” is the term shCherbak and Makukov use to define the process of using genetic patterns to search for interstellar life. (SETI stands for search for extraterrestrial intelligence.) What's interesting about this research is that it's … |
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Mysterious rings on the floor of the Namib Desert in southern Africa have baffled scientists for years. But based on new research, scientists at the University of Hamburg think they have identified what creates this strange phenomenon.
LiveScience explains that these “fairy circles,” as they are known, appear in regular patterns and they can last for decades. Although these bizarre circles are a bit crop circle-ish, biologist Norbert Juergens of the University of Hamburg thinks that termites, rather than aliens create the circles.
Sand termites. (Credit: N. Juergens/Science)
While studying the fairy circles, Dr. Juergens found the circles contain sand termites. Nature World News further explains that Dr. Juergens determined the circles contain “other telltale signs of the insect, including foraged plant material and underground tunnels, signaling that they were not just visiting when Juergens saw them.”
Dr. Juergens’ study was published in the journal Science.
Chemist Yvette Naude of the University of Pretoria, South Africa did not participate in Dr. Juergens’ study, but she told LiveScience that the study “is a useful addition to debating the origin of the fairy circles.” But she goes on to state that the study “does not address the key question as to what is the primary factor that causes sudden plant mortality, i.e. the birth of a fairy circle.” LiveScience suggests, “It is possible the termites don’t cause the fairy circles, but merely live in them.”
So although this new study supports the theory that fairy circles are caused by termites, questions remain, and a conclusive explanation has yet to be made.
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