Search Details

Word: bacterias (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...untrained eye clearly resembling a life-form. Apparently to some trained eyes also. "When I took it home and put it on the kitchen table," says Everett Gibson Jr., a geochemist at the Johnson Space Center, "my wife, who is a biologist, asked, 'What are these bacteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIFE ON MARS | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

Among other images, one revealed carbonate globules--circular features closely associated with fossils of ancient bacteria on Earth. Another showed what seemed to be colonies of sluglike creatures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIFE ON MARS | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

...chances that a primitive creature secreted in this rock may survive such a journey are beginning to look surprisingly good. It takes 10 million years or so for a piece of Earth to reach Mars, and some scientists argue, on the basis of organisms trapped in ancient amber, that bacteria can survive even longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAS THE COSMOS SEEDED WITH LIFE? | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

Gould speculated that bacteria of the kind found in the meteorite "probably almost automatically arise when you get Earth-like conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors React to NASA Discovery of Fossil Evidence of Life on Mars | 8/9/1996 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Even if the reports of the discovery of alien bacteria from Mars turn out to be mistaken, the enthusiasm developing in the wake of yesterday's announcement has some serious implications for the future of planetary research. NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin asked for a "robust program of exploration" of Mars, and it seems he may get it. On Wednesday, President Clinton announced that the U.S. would follow up the discovery with international scientists at a space summit this November. Two unmanned probes blasting off for scientific missions to Mars this November and December will be followed by eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Martian Armada | 8/8/1996 | See Source »

Previous | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | Next