Rob’s first guest today is being compared to Oliver Sacks and Stephen Jay Gould for the quality of her writing on science. She is geobiologist Hope Jahren, who writes about becoming a scientist — ...

Magdalena R. Osburn, a Northwestern University geobiologist who studies ancient and modern microbes, has been awarded a 2017 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile ...

This program was originally broadcast on April 5, 2016. “Lab Girl”, the powerful new memoir of a female scientist — geobiologist Hope Jahren — on life and love. Hope Jahren is a remarkable scientist ...

Hope Jahren, a geobiologist and author of “Lab Girl,” has two Omaha speaking engagements this week. Hope Jahren is the world’s most famous living geobiologist; she is, in fact, the reason we can put ...

If all the world's a stage and all the species merely players, then their exits and entrances can be found in the rock record. Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction ...

Traces of DNA in the stomachs of predatory snails give a team led by LMU geobiologist Gert Wörheide new insights into the ecology of placozoans. Placozoans are among the simplest animals and occur ...

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A chemist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla and a California Institute of Technology geobiologist who grew up in San Diego are among those receiving MacArthur fellowships this year.

If life exists on Mars, how would we know? Scientists have been grappling with this deceptively simple question for years. Kenneth Nealson, the Wrigley Professor of Geobiology at the University of ...

NASA is exploring a deep-sea volcano off the coast of Hawaii as a test run for human and robotic missions to Mars and beyond. The mission, dubbed SUBSEA, or Systematic Underwater Biogeochemical ...

This article is based on a Science Friday interview and was originally published on PRI.org. Much of the language used to teach scientific principles or describe exciting scientific discoveries is ...

Traces of DNA in the stomachs of predatory snails give a team og geobiologists new insights into the ecology of placozoans. Traces of DNA in the stomachs of predatory snails give a team led by LMU ...