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Mars Viking robots 'found life'

 ABC News: Mars Viking robots 'found life'

Mars Viking robots 'found life' from http://m.abc.net.au/browse?page=11144&articleid=3476970&cat=Science

Fri 13 Apr 12, 15:34pm AEST
Irene Klotz
New analysis of 36-year-old data, resuscitated from printouts, shows NASA may have found life on Mars, an international team of mathematicians and scientists conclude in a paper published this week. Further, NASA doesn't need a human expedition to Mars to nail down the claim, says neuropharmacologist and biologist Joseph Miller ofthe University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine . "The ultimate proof is to take a video of a Martian bacteria. They should send a microscope - watch the bacteria move," says Miller. "On the basis of what we've done so far, I'd say I'm 99 per cent sure there's life there." Miller's confidence stems in part from a new study that re-analysed results from a life-detection experiment conducted by NASA's Viking Mars robots in 1976. 

The infinite universe

Thanks to Wired Science for this cool bit of news:

A space telescope peering into the Milky Way galaxy’s dusty core has spied a colossal twisted ribbon of supercooled material.

Until now astronomers had only seen bits and pieces of the ribbon’s 600-light-year-wide superstructure, which resembles the symbol for infinity: ∞.

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