NEWS

Jan 19

LAB Makes Front Cover of Scientific American!

The work that the Laboratory for Agnostic Biosignatures (LAB) has been doing for the last five years has received the cover in the latest...

Jun 6, 2022

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...

Mar 25, 2022

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