"It doesn't mean there's no life on Mars, but what it does mean is it's going to be harder to find," said Jacqueline Goordial, the McGill University researcher who led the study, in an interview with Rachelle Solomon on CBC's Breakaway.
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Published on: 25 Jan 2016
Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars
Natural Resource Sciences professor Lyle Whyte and postdoctoral fellow Jackie Goordial talk about their research which suggests that it is unlikely that it is unlikely that there is any microbial life to be found on Mars.
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Published on: 19 Jan 2016
By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom
Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars
Published on: 19 Jan 2016
The results of a recent experiment at the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron in Saskatoon could be a key piece in the quest to discover if there was ever life on Mars.
Lyle Whyte, an environmental microbiologist at McGill University who is originally from Saskatchewan, specializes in organisms that can survive in extreme cold.
Read article in the Saskatoon StarPhoenix
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Published on: 21 Dec 2015
Insecticides that are sprayed in orchards and fields across North America may be more toxic to spiders than scientists previously believed.
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Published on: 6 Aug 2015
Even jumping spiders have personalities scientists have discovered. A "shy" individual will not make the same choices as a "bold" individual. This means that some individuals, because of their personality type, will capture more prey than others, and will therefore have a larger effect on local ecosystems.
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Published on: 6 Aug 2015
Published on: 20 Dec 2011
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- Academic Support for Students
- Dept. of Agricultural Economics
- Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
- Dept. of Animal Science
- Dept. of Bioresource Engineering
- Brace Centre for Water Resources Management
- Career Planning Service (CaPS)
- Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment (CINE)
- Human Nutrition
- Farm Management and Technology Program
- Dept. of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry
- Macdonald Campus (agriculture and environment)
- International Development Studies
- Macdonald Campus
- Macdonald CaPS
- Environment
- Dept. of Natural Resource Sciences
- School of Nursing
- Inst. of Parasitology
- Dept. of Plant Science
Published on: 16 Oct 2009
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