Podcast: The Zombie Broccoli

Our “Beer with BMSIS” podcast for October features a conversation with Dr. Lucas Mix titled “The Zombie Broccoli: What Aliens and Souls Can Tell Us About Ourselves“. Astrobiology highlights the common origin of life, but this can raise difficult philosophical and spiritual questions when contrasted with some of our unspoken assumptions about value and meaning. Lucas Mix draws on his insights from biology and theology to explore concepts that skirt at the boundaries between ourselves, animals, vegetables, and the rest […]

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Podcast: The Sciworthy News Platform for Scientists

Our “Beer with BMSIS” podcast for September features a conversation with Graham Short about “Sciworthy: A New Science News Platform for Scientists“. Communicating science to the public can be challenging, and scientists often struggle with finding effective methods of directly disseminating their research in accessible ways. Graham Short discusses the history, concept, and future of the Sciworthy initiative, which is a news platform designed for scientists and institutes to directly share research results with the public. [listen to the conversation]

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Podcast: Habitability of Tattoine Planets

Our “Beer with BMSIS” podcast for August features a conversation with Dr. Duncan Forgan of the University of St. Andrews titled “Habitability of Tattoine Planets: Even More Complicated Than You Think“. Planets in orbit around multiple star systems were once thought confined to realm of science fiction, but ongoing planet-finding missions have confirmed that planets can readily form in such environments. Dr. Duncan Forgan considers how habitable conditions could arise on such planets, and he presents some of his climate […]

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A Chat with Astronaut Ron Garan

Retired NASA astronaut Ron Garan appears in an interview on HuffPost Live where he discusses his perspectives on space exploration and his ideas for shaping the future. Our own Dr. Sara Walker is featured in the conversation (at 11:20 from the start), asking Garan his thoughts about our prospects of becoming an interstellar civilization. [Watch the conversation at HuffPost Live]

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Planting Milkweed for Monarch Habitat

We are pleased to offer free Milkweed seeds through our partnership with the Live Monarch Foundation. A self-addressed stamped envelope gets you 15 free seeds, enough to start a small Milkweed patch this spring. And for just a few dollars you can get a hundred seeds or more–at discounted prices, and with a portion of proceeds benefiting BMSIS. Monarch Butterflies are in danger of losing their seasonal migration that takes them from the northern plains to Mexico. Climate change, deforestation, […]

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Atacama Research Featured in Chilean News

An interview with BMSIS research scientist Dr. Armando Azua-Bustos recently appeared in the newspaper El Mercurio in Chile. The article features discussion of Dr. Azua-Bustos’ research in the context of understanding extremely dry planetary environments and possible analogs with sites explored by the Mars Curiosity Rover. [Read the full text in El Mercurio]

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Fruit Fly Lab: Engineer’s Blog

How does an experiment bound for the International Space Station go from laboratory to launch? Join Dr. Sanjoy Som as he writes about his experiences preparing for the maiden voyage of NASA’s Fruit Fly Lab, which is scheduled to launch this month! [read the blog on NASA.gov]

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Wow! Signal Podcast: Cells & Planets

A new episode of the Wow! Signal Podcast features an interview with our own Betul Kacar about her astrobiological research and educational outreach. The Wow! Signal Podcast series features speculative science conversations that explore the past, present, and future of sentient beings in the universe, and this episode features discussions with Steven Dick (Library of Congress chair in astrobiology) and Betul Kacar about their own perspectives on the nature of intelligent life in the universe. Betul’s segment begins 29 minutes […]

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NPP Newsletter Features Rika Anderson

The quarterly newsletter of the NASA Postdoctoral Program features our own Dr. Rika Anderson in a “First Impressions” article about her NPP fellowship. Her time as a fellow of the NASA Astrobiology Institute will be split across the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, the University of Washington, and Yellowstone National Park–all in pursuit of studying Archaea and their highly-evolved suitability to extreme environments. [Read the article in the NASA NPP newsletter]

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