Research
Selected, significant topics of interdisciplinary research by NAI as of 2008:
- Early habitability of Earth
- The rise of oxygen and Earth's "middle age"
- Snowball Earth
- Microbial mat ecology
- Discovery of the "rare biosphere"
- Sub-seafloor life
- Metal isotope tracers of environment and biology
- Life without the Sun
- Early wet Mars
- Methane on Mars
- Comets in space and in the laboratory
- Exoplanet discovery and analysis
- Modeling exoplanet biospheres
Read more about this topic: NASA Astrobiology Institute
Famous quotes containing the word research:
“If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.”
—Peter B. Medawar (1915–1987)
“The research on gender and morality shows that women and men looked at the world through very different moral frameworks. Men tend to think in terms of “justice” or absolute “right and wrong,” while women define morality through the filter of how relationships will be affected. Given these basic differences, why would men and women suddenly agree about disciplining children?”
—Ron Taffel (20th century)
“The great question that has never been answered and which I have not get been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a women want?””
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)