News Coverage of LAB Research!
Two new articles have just been published based upon research from LAB scientists. It's exciting to see our work make such ripples in the...
NEWS
- Mar 25
Sarah Johnson Library of Congress Podcast Interview
Sarah Johnson was just interviewed by David Baron for the Library of Congress Podcast, Space on the Page. Full Description from the...
- Sep 13, 2021
LAB PI Sarah S. Johnson Selected for the Carl Sagan Lecture by AGU 2021
LAB PI Prof. Sarah S. Johnson will be giving the upcoming Carl Sagan Lecture for the Biogeosciences and Planetary Sciences Sections at...
- Sep 13, 2021
Dr. Heather Graham Interviewed for Alien Crash Site Podcast
We are fortunate to have a second member of LAB be interviewed by Alien Crash Site! Dr. Heather Graham, a Research Physical Scientist at...
- Sep 13, 2021
Dr. Cole Mathis Interviewed for Alien Crash Site Podcast
Dr. Cole Mathis, a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow working at Arizona State University and the Santa Fe Institute, was interviewed for the Alien...
- Jul 16, 2021
Scientific American Article on Using Math to Search for Life on Otherworldly Oceans
Scientific American has just done a great write-up on LAB's efforts to use stoichiometry and math to detect life on Ocean Worlds! This is...
- Jun 14, 2021
LAB Co-I Pan Conrad Profiled in CNN
LAB Co-I Pan Conrad is featured in a recent article from CNN, "She's a priest. You'll never guess her other job." The profile discusses...
- Jun 2, 2021
LAB publication featured in Universe Today
A new LAB publication in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, "Generalized stoichiometry and biogeochemistry for astrobiological...
- Mar 24, 2021
Carnegie Science Seminar with LAB Co-I Andrew Steele
Tune in on Thursday, March 25 at 11 am ET for a Carnegie Science Earth & Planets Laboratory seminar with LAB Co-I Andrew Steele. Dr....
- Feb 18, 2021
LAB PI considers biosignature preservation on Mars in a new essay for The New York Times
LAB PI Sarah Stewart Johnson has an essay in The New York Times, "Why Frigid Mars Is the Perfect Place to Look for Ancient Life,"...
- Feb 10, 2021
LAB PI & DPI Speaking at Planetfest '21
Tune in to see Drs. Sarah Stewart Johnson and Heather Graham speaking at The Planetary Society's Planetfest '21! They'll be featured on...
- Oct 22, 2020
LAB affiliate ponders ‘Laws Of Life’ in online Origins of Life Speaker Series
LAB affiliate Sara Walker will discuss universal principles of life in her talk "Inferring the 'Laws of Life' at a Planetary Scale" as...
- Sep 8, 2020
LAB postdoc Natalie Grefenstette talks with Complexity about abstracting our search for life
LAB postdoc Natalie Grefenstette was a guest on Complexity, a podcast by the Santa Fe Institute, where she discussed her path to...
- Aug 27, 2020
Definitions of individuality and agnostic approaches to the origins of life
LAB Co-I Chris Kempes was interviewed by Quanta Magazine to discuss the applications of information theory to our biological definition...
- Jul 7, 2020
The Sirens of Mars by Sarah Stewart Johnson review — searching for life on the red planet
If life can survive on Mars, it can survive almost anywhere — that’s why we keep looking, says Oliver Moody... Sarah Stewart's new book...
- Jun 25, 2020
Science autonomy, machine learning, & looking for life with the ExoMars mission featured in Forbes
LAB team member Victoria Da Poian and her work developing AI systems for autonomous data analysis on the ExoMars rover are featured in...
- Apr 17, 2020
LAB Deputy PI sits down with NASA's Chief Scientist to talk biosignatures & evidence of ancient life
LAB Deputy PI Heather Graham was a guest on the Gravity Assist podcast, where she sat down with NASA's Chief Scientist, Jim Green, to...
- Apr 26, 2019
LAB co-Investigator Eric Anslyn (UT Austin) receives major award from the American Chemical Society
Chemistry professor Eric Anslyn is the recipient of the James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry, sponsored by the ACS Northea
- Feb 21, 2019
Scientists Synthesize a New Type of DNA with Extra Building Blocks
A team of synthetic biologists led by Steven Benner at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution—and including Andrew Ellington at The
- Oct 11, 2018
Launch of a new consortium for Life Detection Science - Fall 2018
Launching alongside LAB is NfoLD, a multi-institution research coordination network focused on focused on developing technologies and techni