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Science 26 April 2002:
Vol. 296. no. 5568, pp. 647 - 648
DOI: 10.1126/science.296.5568.647
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ASTROBIOLOGY SCIENCE CONFERENCE:
Astrobiologists Try to 'Follow the Water to Life'

Robert Irion

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA--Water unified most of the talks heard by more than 700 astronomers, biologists, chemists, geologists, planetary scientists, and even virologists at the biannual Astrobiology Science Conference held 8 to 11 April here at NASA's Ames Research Center. Among the topics raised within the cavernous 60-meter-high Hangar One--which once housed a pre-World War II Navy dirigible--were the liquid milieu in which the first cells may have formed and the effects of water and ice on an Arctic impact crater.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)