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  ASEN2023 – Pioneering the dissemination of astroscience in sub-Saharan Africa
  
  With such a diverse nature across Africa, how can we collectively create more awareness of astrosciences in the region? Since 2015...
  
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  COSMIC LIFE: Get to know your friendly neighbours today!
  
  A free to attend, science-in-society in-person event in Leeds, UK on Saturday March 18th, 2023. This meeting is open to all and endeavours to shine a spotlight on all things Cosmos related. Featuring presentations by eminent practitioners in the field and highlighting issues such as astronauts in structure space, the microbiology of extreme environments,establishing a SETI capability in the UK and asking the question What Isn’t Life?
  
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  Multi-instrumental study of a 162173Ryugu Sample (Hayabusa-2 mission, JAXA)
  
  A dark, so-called carbonaceous asteroid, was recently sampled for the first time. History was made when the sampling spacecraft (Hayabusa-2) travelled...
  
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  Goldschmidt Mentor & Grant Programmes 2023
  
  MENTOR PROGRAMME: Designed for novice conference attendees, students, and early career scientists, mentees will be matched one-and-one with an experienced scientist...
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  Morphology of Meteorite Surfaces Ablated by High-Power Lasers: Review and Applications
  
  Under controlled laboratory conditions, lasers represent a source of energy with well-defined parameters suitable for mimicking phenomena such as ablation, disintegration,...
  
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  Seeking out Moon and Mars superoxides for oxygen farming
  
  The dusty faces of the Moon and Mars conceal unseen hazards for future explorers. Areas of highly oxidising material could be...
  
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  Mars: New insights and unresolved questions
  
  Mars exploration motivates the search for extraterrestrial life, the development of space technologies, and the design of human missions and habitations....
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  The catalytic properties of chondritic meteorites and their role in the origin of life in Nitrogen- and water-rich environments (J.M. TRIGO-RODRIGUEZ)
  
  Undifferentiated asteroids and comets are composed by primordial materials that were forming part of the protoplanetary disk. Some of the most...
  
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  Prebiotic synthesis initiated in formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide by laser plasma simulating high-velocity impacts (Martin FERUS)
  
  It is well known that hydrogen cyanide and formamide can universally be considered as key molecules in prebiotic synthesis. Despite the...
  
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  A Clamping Domain Facilitates Processivity and Promoter Recognition in an RNA Polymerase Ribozyme (Razvan COJOCARU)
  
  The “RNA World” proposes that early in evolution RNA could have served both as the carrier of genetic information and as...
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ASEN2023 – Pioneering the dissemination of astroscience in sub-Saharan Africa

The Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2021 (25-27 August, 2021)

The Molecular Origins of , Munich conference addresses one of the most fundamental questions of science: How could life originate? With 24 talks by...

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5th NoRCEL Network Conference “How did all begin … ?” (Virtual Event)

How did all begin … ? March 29–31, 2021 To drill down to the core of the question of the emergence and evolution of requires...

4th NoR HGT & LUCA (2018) – Athens, Greece

How did life begin on Earth? And, is there life elsewhere in the Cosmos? Challenging questions, indeed. The series of conferences established by NoR CEL in 2013,...

3rd NoR HGT & LUCA (2016) – Open University

This conference investigates the various nuances of the origins of life on Earth and highlights the latest findings in that arena as reported at...

2nd NoR HGT & LUCA (2014) – Leeds University

How did life emerge on Earth? The aim of the Network of Researchers on Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Last Universal Cellular Ancestor (NoR HGT...

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