Shallow Soda Lakes Could Be Strong Candidate for the Emergence of Life on Earth, Study Reveals

Medicine & Technology Jan 24, 2024

A new study suggests that soda lakes show promise as cradles of life on Earth and could also be a candidate for extraterrestrial life. Check this article to find out more.

Road Trip Reveals Effect Tributaries Have on Great Lakes

Oct 27, 2020

A graduate student's road trip around Lake Michigan revealed the effects of small streams on the Great Lakes.

Life Underneath Antarctica May One Day Reveal Life On Colder Planets

Apr 28, 2015

Though it may be hard to imagine life abounding in the frigid tundra that is Earth’s Antarctica, that doesn’t mean that life cannot exist there. Recent studies looking into the develop and sustainability of life in the frozen wasteland has developed promising results in showing that life may too exist on other exoplanets or exomoons further out in space that may share a similarly cold surface. But in a new study published this week in the journal Nature Communications, researchers with the University of Tennessee Knoxville have discovered a series of underground lakes that could harbor life—pointing ever-more towards the possibility of life far off from what humans can withstand.

Greenland's Massive Ice Sheets Reveal New Lakes Below

Jan 22, 2015

Scientists have discovered changes in the subglacial lakes that have formed below the massive Greenland ice sheet. These lakes could make the ice more sensitive to changes in the climate than many previously believed.

NASA Finds Mars Craters May Have Once Been Seasonal Lakes

Dec 10, 2014

Ever imagine that the red planet’s surface may once have had a different appearance? Well while researchers at NASA have had rovers scoping out Mars’ surface for years, new information received from NASA’s Curiosity Rover suggests that the planet’s craters may once have served a different purpose, and that the arid red planet may once have had long-lasting above ground lakes. Though new evidence challenges the popular theory that water on the planet only existed in the liquid form underground in aquifers, evidence of above ground lakes would undoubtedly mean that the planet was much more likely to sustain life some time ago.