g STARS - Large debris disks around certain stars may imply a high rate of killer comets that wipe out any chance of life forming in these stellar systems. See article.
g ABODES - NAI's Deep Time Drilling Project supported the drilling of several pristine cores from ancient rocks in Western Australia in 2004, and a new paper in last week's Science, led by University of Washington astrobiologists, outlines results from the analysis of these cores. See article.
g LIFE - Aliens may be living among us. Lurking in nuclear waste pools. Breeding in acidic lakes. Or creeping underground devoid of oxygen and light. See article.
g COSMICUS - NASA has selected seven academic and research teams as initial members of the agency's Lunar Science Institute, and Naval Research Laboratory researchers will play a substantial role on one of the teams. See article.
