UIC's mission: To model life on Saturn's moon in the lab (2018)
UIC's news release about our NASA Astrobiology Institute grant was distributed on the Nov. 29, 2018. in English - Sciencemag - News(wize) - Eurekalert - Phys.org - Edublog (Education News) - Newstral.com - WTTW Chicago Tonight science roundup. Look at the broadcast after 2:50 minutes (discussing the Chinese mission to the far side of the moon) and here we are. The presenters are as excited as we are about this project. |

Pennsylvanian cave fill provides exquisite fossil preservation and paleoclimate information (2009)
in English
- ScienceDaily "Treasure trove of fossils found in limestone cave"
- Chicago Tribune "Cave found by students a geological gold mine; Kendall quarry yields rare fossils"
- LiveScience "Cave near Chicago full of ancient wonders"
Orignal manuscript: Plotnick et al. (2009)
in English
- ScienceDaily "Treasure trove of fossils found in limestone cave"
- Chicago Tribune "Cave found by students a geological gold mine; Kendall quarry yields rare fossils"
- LiveScience "Cave near Chicago full of ancient wonders"
Orignal manuscript: Plotnick et al. (2009)
Archaea biomarkers detected in ~2.7 billion year old sediments of Timmins (Ontario) (2007)
in English - Astrobiology Magazine "Early Life Eureka" - Science Daily "Ancient Organisms Discovered In Canadian Gold Mine" - The Daily Galaxy "Ancient Organisms Found in Canada's Deep" - UPI "2.7 billion-year-old fossils are found" in French "La mine d'or de l'évolution" Interview with Radio Canada (Fabien Kenig). in Czech OSEL: "Prastarý život z kanadského zlatého dolu" Found on the Blue Agave Forum: Posted 23 August 2007 - 07:08 AM "I was listening to a report on CBC Radio 1, Tuesday (Ontario Today show) and Gregory Ventura was being interviewed by Rita Celli. He's the scientist (then a doctoral student) who discovered the chemical remains of bacteria in shale 2.7 billion years old, deep in a gold mine in Timmins, ON. When asked how he celebrated the confirmation of the incredible age of these bacterial fossils, Ventura told the interviewer he was fond of tequila, so he celebrated by having a couple of shots. No, he didn't mention the brand. Tequila and science! Gotta love that mix. There's a podcast of the interview on the CBC archive site (good only for 30 days). |
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Intermittent euxinia: Reuniting a black shale with its biofacies (2004)
in English - Scienceblog "Seabed secrets in English clay" - Scienceblog.com "Oxygen, Non oxygen breathing organisms coexisted" - Bio-medecine "Seabed secrets in English clay" - Eurekalert in Spanish - "Secretos del fundo marino en arcilla Ingles" |
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