I just like the idea of these little twitchy lifeforms.
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They're not just "lesser" lifeforms who will murder without mercy.
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Evolving artistic conceptions about the lifeforms that preceded us on Earth.
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Moreover, how did our single-celled ancestors eventually develop into complex lifeforms?
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Behold, one of the most surreal and mysterious lifeforms on the planet.
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They were indiscriminate in what they captured, however, and they shredded gelatinous lifeforms.
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This study, however, focused on the discovery of microbial life — not intelligent lifeforms.
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I found strange alien monuments here, and a few more sentient lifeforms than I'd anticipated.
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The team's hope is that the tiny lifeforms they found on Mars or other planets.
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This discovery could assist NASA scientists in their search for similar fossilized lifeforms on Mars.
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But even if the ocean material is chock-full of little lifeforms, Cassini won't know it.
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So don't fret, potential lifeforms of Europa, because we Earthlings are coming over to say hi.
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Healthy, mature forests support a broad variety of lifeforms, giving and taking nutrients, habitat, and shade.
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"I am not suggesting that a highly developed civilization would consciously wipe out other lifeforms," Berezin wrote.
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Deep down in the ocean, 200 to 500 feet below the surface, lifeforms flourish where they shouldn't.
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So different, in fact, that NASA uses those lifeforms as a guide to its exploration of the universe.
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Sexuality requires having sexual feelings, which are often lacking in even our most futuristic imaginations of artificial lifeforms.
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If that's the case, then the giant impact likely occurred much earlier than the first emergence of lifeforms.
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"There's this idea that extraterrestrial lifeforms can make us sick, it's the working Andromeda Strain idea," Shostak said.
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Rather, it probes the mysterious of different lifeforms and highlights our human ignorance at the life around us.
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The exciting possibility that these lifeforms on Mars, past or present, created its methane is a real one.
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Set on another planet, humans live in protective bubbles to keep away from the world's native and hostile lifeforms.
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But let's say our wildest hopes (or worst nightmares) are true, and there are alien lifeforms inhabiting nearby worlds.
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More conceptually, this work could help astrobiologists predict what kinds of alien lifeforms might exist elsewhere in the cosmos.
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A group of philosophers and astronomers are now suggesting that the dominant lifeforms in the universe are likely artificial.
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Season 1 follows their search for new alien lifeforms as they try not to get killed on the way.
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But for all the potential it held to engineer brand new lifeforms, the genetic code has been relatively uncreative.
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His songs weren't about other planets or undiscovered lifeforms; they were about people and intimacy and sex and love.
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Mirroring the carbon-based lifeforms on Earth, she used the crystalline form of carbon, graphite, to create the drawings.
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Of course he's my friend in the future, as there are no known alien lifeforms in 2016, Earth Time.
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Orphan's interest in the ocean's tiniest lifeforms was sparked after observing seawater under a microscope as an undergraduate student.
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It jettisons up into the sky and gives us multiple climate zones that allows for many lifeforms to thrive.
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Countless lifeforms survived the deluges of water and fire, only to slowly perish in this punishing new global climate.
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The answer is that 95% of our bodies are made up of non-human lifeforms - viruses, bacteria and protozoa.
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These microscopic organisms played a key role in creating a habitable atmosphere for more advanced lifeforms billions of years ago.
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Some object to humans living on Mars because they would contaminate the planet, harming whatever bacterial lifeforms might be present.
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There's no better biome than the deep blue sea to remind us just how diverse our planet's lifeforms really are.
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The very means of destruction—the mud itself—may eventually provide the habitat required for these ecologically important lifeforms to return.
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In nearly every robot-adjacent story, artificial lifeforms succeed in achieving sentience only to realize that they are abjectly, unendingly oppressed.
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In Westworld, constant rebooting makes artificial lifeforms conscious of the fact that they are slaves, and horribly mistreated slaves at that.
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Through creative interventions, their work considers how the natural agencies of weeds can inspire community-organizing on behalf of all lifeforms.
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Moore's musical concept features various intertwining rhythms inspired by the different lifeforms heard when one is silent in the bush environment.
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Even if these speculative future lifeforms are advanced relative to humans, they might welcome information about our perspective on the universe.
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The news was met with a mixture of surprise and dismay, with some fearing that these lifeforms could contaminate the Moon.
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Today in an interview with new-hip-Politico, Mnuchin dismissed concerns that automation might displace jobs for flesh and blood human lifeforms.
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This is (moderately) bad for lifeforms on the surface, but it's not the kind of thing that could trigger a mass extinction.
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Since the late 19th century, science fiction writers have imagined Martians and other alien lifeforms engaged in great feats of terrestrial engineering.
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Well, it's easier said than done, but you and your guests (save for unsavory primordial biological lifeforms) will be glad for it.
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Star Labs, an innovation lab backed by Samsung, displayed its AI-powered lifeforms called Neons at CES in videos on giant TVs.
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Seemingly overnight, these new lifeforms diversified into all sorts of kooky creatures, expanding to fill virtually every nook and cranny on the planet.
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Shields likened them to nature's "hackers" because of their ability to, well, hack it in a place where few other lifeforms could survive.
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The sails would probably have to be controlled remotely or by artificial intelligence, as they could not safely carry fragile lifeforms like humans.
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The analysis also showed nuclei inside the cells, indicating that the fungi were eukaryotic organisms—a group to which all complex lifeforms belong.
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For it, artist Orestis Herodotou fed macro images of biological lifeforms and satellite images of rivers and mountain ranges into a neural network.
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These lifeforms would be in a severely dehydrated state, and, at least in theory, could be re-animated once introduced to the right conditions.
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If confirmed, it would be the earliest evidence of motility in eukaryotic life, that is, lifeforms with complex cells and a clearly defined nucleus.
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But though they are comparable in size to our own world, these planets offer a drastically different environment for any speculative lifeforms on them.
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While our planet was far enough from the blast radius to avoid obliteration, the fallout still affected Earth's atmosphere, and perhaps even its lifeforms.
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For example, potential lifeforms on their surfaces could tap energy coming directly from their star, and light reflected off their parent planet as well.
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Today, astrobiologists suspect that extraterrestrial lifeforms are likely to be microscopic in nature, akin to the bacteria scientists find in extreme environments on Earth.
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Besides evoking the reaction-diffusion images made by researchers, Kitahara's video also has the look of microscopic organisms or even theoretical silicon-based lifeforms.
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Let this be a lesson: stretch after workouts, drink tons of water, eat lots of potassium, and don't let alien lifeforms take over your body.
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Authors have imagined a variety of scenarios, from the desire for amicable partnership between humanoid species, to genocidal hostility between lifeforms that we barely recognize.
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New devices like suction samplers (which literally hoover up samples from remote rovers) can target a specific organism, but they can still damage delicate lifeforms.
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Fans of Prometheus will recognize David, the slick, Lawrence of Arabia-quoting synthetic who seems a little too interested in biological warfare and alien lifeforms.
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Scientists commonly turn their inquisitive gaze to mundane restaurant items that may appear harmless but are in fact crawling with microscopic and potentially harmful lifeforms.
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Galactus's motive isn't necessarily to cause cosmic genocide, but that's what he does, and he can easily influence and manipulate other lifeforms to help him.
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The microorganisms in Ecosynthesis were specifically inspired by Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End, in which alien overlords look at the human species as simple lifeforms.
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Likewise, this team of researchers is also keen to discover new lifeforms that could reveal how life on earth—and other planets—got its start.
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Fleshlight manufacturer Interactive Lifeforms LLC has sold more than 75,000 Destroyas and more than 15 million Fleshlights total since the company started 20 years ago.
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It joined fellow rover Opportunity in searching the red planet for signs of water and clues about whether Mars was capable of supporting microbial lifeforms.
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It's a paradoxical reality that these seemingly humble lifeforms exert a far greater influence on Earth's processes than ocean megastars like whales, sharks, squids, and octopuses.
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These habitats can host lush ecosystems supported by "methanogens," lifeforms that convert carbon dioxide and molecular hydrogen into methane, and similar organisms potentially exist on Enceladus.
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Humans may one day embark on missions to other stars, but it doesn't necessarily follow that the lifeforms that arrive on those frontiers will be human.
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In other words, the first day of the Cenozoic era was also the worst day for its lifeforms, even if they weren't snuffed out right away.
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The problem, simply put, is that the universe began as a roiling cosmic soup of inanimate matter, but eventually gave rise to a diverse multitude of lifeforms.
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The notion that Earth has been periodically sneezing its sky stuff on the Moon, spraying it with the exhalations of now-extinct lifeforms, is not entirely new.
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As the Adriatic plate was forced down into Earth's mantle, the realm beneath the planet's crust, this top layer of sediment and lifeforms was sheared right off.
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Oliver Bruce, the micromobility expert, compares it to the prehistoric Cambrian Period, in which life on Earth evolved from simple-celled organisms into uncountable, wildly diverse lifeforms.
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If Europa's ocean also has a source of energy—think hydrothermal vents—and a few choice chemical elements, there's a decent chance it could support basic lifeforms.
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Humans behave as if we are a self-reliant species, rather than one of many lifeforms, all of whom rely on the same fragile ecosystem to survive.
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For years, scientists have suspected that the sudden arrival of animals on the evolutionary scene may have edged out the previous complex lifeforms, called the Ediacaran biota.
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In other words, polycephaly is a well-documented bug in tetrapod DNA, and sharks are one of many lifeforms that have to live and die with it.
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Illustration: Nobumichi TamuraThe conditions under which early lifeforms originated and exploded into the many animal groups we see today is a mystery that has confounded scientists for decades.
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There are many lifeforms that stand to lose from the disaster that is drought-induced aardvark starvation, preschoolers learning their ABC's and meme makers just some of them.
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The Daleks were among that distinguished set, but their general resemblance to industrial-grade vacuum cleaners always inclined me to think that, as alien lifeforms go, they suck.
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What is that dynamic like, given that they're meeting the established colonists, but also coming into contact with the native lifeforms on the planet for the first time?
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However, members of the press got a preview this weekend, and helpfully gave everyone a look at what to expect from Pandora and the lifeforms that live there.
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Of course, that's exactly what the government would want you to do if it actually just made contact with alien lifeforms in a remote section of New Mexico!
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They also find clues about what happened to the team that went missing: they seemed to have gone crazy, or were killed by one of the zone's lifeforms.
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An enormous raft of volcanic powder is floating across the South Pacific Ocean, and may eventually end up enriching the Great Barrier Reef with nutrients and new lifeforms.
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Björk stars in the clip as a CGI avatar in an otherworldly scene, encountering bioluminescent lifeforms and radiating an sun-like glow that grows increasingly intense over time.
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In other words, military base and outpost building has destroyed huge expanses of coral reef, which means that millions of its colorful lifeforms have been wiped off the planet.
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The need for liquid to create life is theorized due to the chemistry of molecules, as they require liquids to react and reform into other things -- such as lifeforms.
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I can just fight Legion all day, or take a break and scan some alien lifeforms, or scavenge for currencies and parts to better myself and the planet populations.
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But even if Lake Vostok and future explorations fail to discover any "alien" lifeforms, the chance to peep at ecosystems that haven't changed in millions of years is thrilling.
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As they tunneled through the seafloor, the animals likely fed on algae or dead lifeforms they came across, a foraging strategy that may have helped give rise to predation.
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These tiny "new lifeforms" can be programmed to move around or carry and deliver miniature payloads that could one day be medicines inside a patient's body, the Guardian reports.
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Sandberg, Drexler and Ord also look at the famous Drake Equation , a seven-term equation that attempts to look at the differing variables that would be relevant for intelligent lifeforms.
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Trump, Boris, and Wilders all have the same voluminous quiff, which leads him to believe that the hair on their heads are alien lifeforms that have taken over their minds.
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In Other Waters, the upcoming debut from Gareth Damian Martin [disclaimer: Gareth is the editor of Heterotopias, a site I've written for in the past], also emphasizes non-human lifeforms.
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The discovery, found during a measurement taking on Wednesday by the robot and observed by NASA researchers, could indicate that microbial lifeforms may have taken up residence underground on Mars.
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Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who blew the lid on the US government's classified mass surveillance programs, shut down a conspiracy theory that the US is secretly housing alien lifeforms.
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The discovery of what has been termed a "subterranean Galapagos" was announced by the Deep Carbon Observatory Tuesday, which said many of the lifeforms have lifespans of millions of years.
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Countless marine lifeforms, from algae to mollusks, will do what they always do when objects float by in the ocean: grab on and prepare to invade any land they reach.
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Addressing this problem will require restructuring our societies on the largest scales, in order to ensure that the small-scale lifeforms inside us can thrive, so that we can too.
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Lechte said that not only did life survive Snowball Earth, but the massive glaciation that engulfed the planet could have played a role in the evolution of more complex lifeforms.
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Both Ex Machina and Annihilation were complicated films, dealing with longstanding genre tropes like weird lifeforms and robots in ways that are hard to fit into a two-hour feature film.
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The study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, could force us to reconsider the primordial origins of learning that occurred long before the evolution of lifeforms with brains.
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No one on this planet knows what the hell Matt Bellamy is singing about but it doesn't matter because who said he was singing to this planet and its puny lifeforms?
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By the end of its tenure in space, the Russian Mir space station was plagued by fungus, mould, and bacteria, demonstrating how easily microbial lifeforms can gain an edge in space.
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SETI astronomer opens up on how human race could communicate with extraterrestrial intelligence British scientists have claimed alien lifeforms may have evolved in a similar way to the organisms here on Earth.
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That will make it easier for the process of designing new synthetic lifeforms to be scaled up from the bespoke boutique business it is now to something more like a global industry.
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"The decisions we make upon our planet's future depend upon knowledge," the royal said, explaining the program — dubbed Monaco Explorations — will expand understanding of the oceans bio-diversity, studying plants and lifeforms.
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It has since been ruled that these lifeforms colonized the camera due to shoddy clean room practices after the instrument was returned to Earth, which led to stricter laboratory protocols at NASA.
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Understandably, it is more common to research pathogens—microbes that can cause infections or disease—because those lifeforms pose a greater threat to astronauts on long duration missions, like crewed Mars missions.
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Using a modular system that represents the molecule-building experience—literal building blocks of life—visitors create digital lifeforms, which are then released into the wild world to interact with other people's creations.
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Even though, I was playing as a single animal—the slugcat—I was able to peek into the lives of other virtual lifeforms and, in a sense, dissolve my own point of view.
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Rising seas inundated huge supercontinents that would become the land masses we know today, making way for an explosion of new, complex lifeforms; a hallmark of this vibrant era called the Cambrian period.
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As humans continue to unwittingly engineer robots that will eventually lead to our downfall as the dominant lifeforms on Earth, we've built a wide variety of robots that can run, climb, and swim.
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Knowing her daughter's passion for dinosaurs and other ancient lifeforms, Frewin's mother (herself an ardent fan of The Sims franchise) introduced her to the then-new evolution sim around the age of 13.
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Like all viruses, bacteriophages are not lifeforms per se, just little packets of matter that attach to cells, and trick them into making more packets of matter, and on and on, ad nauseam.
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Essentially, he was the progenitor of the argument that God deliberately placed false flags on Earth, including fossils, and that these skeletal remains did not therefore prove that such exotic ancient lifeforms ever existed.
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Finding arsenic-breathing microbes on Enceladus or elsewhere would obviously be a huge deal, but as this new paper makes clear, some of the most alien lifeforms can be found right here on Earth.
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But researchers from the Interactive Architecture Lab at University College London are exploring a future scenario where "cybernetic lifeforms" that are "half garden and half machine" roam our urban cityscapes, co-existing alongside us.
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It steers participants past offensive still lifes of literally still, dead lifeforms and hunting scenes — for instance, Goya's "Hunting Party" (1775), where a sharpshooter is about to drop an unsuspecting quail from the sky.
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As to why an extraterrestrial civilization would bother with such a device, the researchers say it could be used as an interstellar—or even an intergalactic—signaling system, alerting other intelligent lifeforms to their presence.
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Not only is Earth the only world in the universe known to support life, it's also generous about producing gorgeous spectacles for these lifeforms to enjoy, with total solar eclipses being a particularly topical example.
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But, as highlighted by an accompanying Nature article by Abigail C. Allwood, a field geologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, these early lifeforms are a reminder that life on Earth has weathered some tough challenges.
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Indeed, we have better maps of the surface of Mars than we do of the ocean floor, to say nothing of our knowledge of the lifeforms that are found thousands of feet beneath the surface.
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Directed by Lucas Leyva and Jillian Mayer of Miami-based collective Borscht, it sees two infatuated special agents searching for extraterrestrial lifeforms, smoking cigarettes, drinking espressos while driving, and riding on a cool-ass airboat.
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Meccanoville occupied the former site of Detroit and environs, a sprawling congeries of undecorated, black spun-carbon-fiber windowless buildings of all shapes and sizes that obeyed rules of an architecture foreign to organic lifeforms.
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If life is similar to Earth life, we need to figure out if it is similar because that is how the universe makes life, or because early lifeforms caught a ride from one planet to another.
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For those not in the loop, Alex Jones is an internet and radio personality who pushes fake news and insane conspiracies to right-wing nut jobs, including the one that alien lifeforms are living on Earth.
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One of the reasons it was such a hit was that it felt like the Star Wars universe; the droids and alien lifeforms and the "used future" look of the original were all happily in place.
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There a group of designers and scientists have built a scientific research complex named Epsilon, a piece of futuristic architecture integrated into the surrounding alien landscape, from which the team can investigate the planet and its lifeforms.
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Fuller promised "more aliens" than you would usually expect in a "Star Trek" cast, as a way of highlighting the diverse array of lifeforms and species populating the universe, particularly in regards to the members of Starfleet.
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Our tendency to put the cart light years beyond the horse when it comes to anything alien says much more about the human yearning for connection with other intelligent lifeforms than it does about those speculative civilizations.
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Video: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/YouTube These oddities make Titan a particularly tantalizing destination to scientists, for reasons ranging from potential resource extraction to the possibility that the moon could host some kind of weird cyanide-based lifeforms.
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Called Syn3.0, the 473-gene bacterium could be used to construct virtually any kind of cell with custom-built properties, allowing scientists to create artificial lifeforms that can be used to produce novel medicines, biochemicals, biofuels, and food.
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Each of them carried an identical golden time capsule, filled with the sights and sounds of the world they left behind, so they could act as ambassadors to any other lifeforms they might encounter on their endless journey.
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The environmental quality of the buildings where we live and work also influence what lifeforms are inside us, as does our general proximity to greenspace, on the positive side, or polluting industrial and agricultural facilities, on the negative end.
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Much like the tree resin that traps ancient ecosystems in amber, plaque can preserve microbial lifeforms that proliferated in the mouths of our Neanderthal cousins, with whom early humans occasionally interbred before the mysterious species died out roughly 40,000 years ago.
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The body of water, Lake Vostok, was thought to have remained undisturbed for up to 25 million years, and its potential to yield ancient, never-before-seen lifeforms was believed by everyone hoping to discover aliens right here on Earth.
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And while Titan is the only other place in the solar system where we know there are flowing liquids on the surface, its lakes, rivers, and seas are filled with methane and ethane (too toxic for any Earthly lifeforms to survive in).
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If we miss out on finding other sentient lifeforms because someone spent the last of their 2018 beer budget on a cryptocurrency mining rig, driving up the price of GPUs in service of chasing an imaginary payday, then I'm gonna be even more pissed off.
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"If the predictions are wrong and the safeguards are not enough, then the price will be the cost of our humanity as well as these new lifeforms that did not ask to participate in this frightening enterprise," wrote one commenter on the NIH website.
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The game's fans tout its scale: NMS offers a universe of planets to explore and lifeforms to catalogue, and it does this with a technique called procedural generation, which uses algorithms to instantly create content that would've previously taken an artist hours to build.
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These personifications might seem absurd, but they represent the artists' very serious belief that wild urban plants are overlooked lifeforms in our daily environment that deserve attention— even at a moment when it seems like there's too much else going wrong to provide it.
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So far, they have been fairly basic simulations, but he hopes to integrate more sophisticated data about climate circulation, resource exploitation, and planetary change into future iterations to get a firmer grasp on whether climate change might be a deadly bottleneck for intelligent lifeforms.
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The twist is that — as you get to know the hosts and realize that something deeply nefarious is going on in the park — you're compelled to wonder if the artificially intelligent lifeforms are in possession of more humanity than the visitors who come to fulfill their oft-sadistic fantasies.
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In 21960, a ship named Zond 21 transported the first Earth lifeforms (a couple of tortoises plus worms, flies, seeds, and bacteria) around the moon and back safely — a mission that not only beat NASA but also managed to sound freakier than any spaced-out David Bowie song.
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The MoonArk will also be transporting DNA from a number of lifeforms, such as the Arctic Tern, as well as a collection of plankton, water samples taken from the most polluted river in India and from Earth's major oceans, wooden Inuit maps of the Greenland coastlines, and more.
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There is also Hito Steyerle's "HellYeahWeFuckDie" (2017), a wonderfully confusing installation in a utopian bank lobby, and Pierre Huyghe's mad scientist's environment "After ALife AHead" (2017) where the architecture of a skating rink, and the organic lifeforms inhabiting it, are controlled by the growth of human cancer cells.
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A new study published in Astrobiology, led by Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at Washington State University, and Ian Crawford, a professor of planetary science and astrobiology at the University of London, says there were times in the Moon's early days when conditions were right for simple lifeforms.
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This feeling extends to my time exploring the surface: no matter if it's an icy planet, a toxic one, or anything in between, my time is still primarily spent scanning for new lifeforms, searching out ruins and buildings, and collecting whatever I need to keep my suit and ship running.
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Polygon's Monster Factory series may have breathed a little new life into it, but the oft-maligned evolution sim has maintained a devoted following since its launch, and given years to mod the game and hone their creature creation skills many of them are currently producing some downright amazing lifeforms.
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There are some really fascinating stories in this book: "Suitable for the Orient" follows a doctor who's stationed on a distant planet amidst a conflict between the native lifeforms and the human colonists, while "An Open Prison" depicts a future where convicts are locked up in a mechanical suit and are forced to serve the public and the people they've wronged.
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