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What a Signal in a Failed Star’s Clouds Means for the Search for Life
The detection of the molecule #phosphine in a #browndwarf’s atmosphere may help #astronomers in their search for life elsewhere in the Milky Way,a molecule that on this planet is produced by living things.
This discovery is not life, the astronomers say. Any life as we know it would be impossible to sustain in such an environment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/science/brown-dwarf-phosphine-life.html
https://archive.ph/7nyuM

What a Phosphine Signal in a Brown Dwarf’s Clouds Means for the Search for Life

The detection of the molecule phosphine in a brown dwarf’s atmosphere may help astronomers in their search for life elsewhere in the Milky Way.

The New York Times

Daniel Fischer Oct 2

Observation of undepleted phosphine in the atmosphere of a low-temperature brown dwarf: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu0401 -> The first-time finding of appreciable amounts of #phosphine in a #BrownDwarf suggests it may be too soon to use the molecule as a sign of #AlienLife: https://cen.acs.org/physical-chemistry/astrochemistry/Phosphine-found-brown-dwarfs-atmosphere/103/web/2025/10 / Phosphine, Evidence, and an Exercise in Scientific Restraint: https://www.seti.org/news/wolf-1130c-phosphine-evidence-and-an-exercise-in-scientific-restraint/

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U.K. tourist among 2 found dead at Sri Lankan hostel, police investigating #Trending #World #Phosphine #Poisoning #Sri Lanka #uk tourist dead

https://globalnews.ca/news/11006848/tourists-dead-sri-lankan-hostel-police-investigating//612

U.K. tourist among 2 found dead at Sri Lankan hostel, police investigating

Ebony McIntosh, 24, and Nadine Raguse, 27, were rushed to the hospital to be treated for vomiting, nausea and breathing difficulties.

Global News

The Conversation U.S.Feb 4, 2025

Meet phosphine, a gas commonly used for industrial fumigation that can damage your lungs, heart and liver

While scientists still aren’t sure how phosphine wreaks so much havoc on the body, some are developing medications that can help mitigate the harm it causes.

The Conversation

The Conversation U.S.Feb 1, 2025

#Phosphine gas, commonly used in #insecticides, can harm the lungs, heart, liver, and kidneys. A pharmaceutical scientist explains how symptoms can appear within hours, while some effects may take days to surface. https://theconversation.com/meet-phosphine-a-gas-commonly-used-for-industrial-fumigation-that-can-damage-your-lungs-heart-and-liver-245821 #occupationalhealth

Meet phosphine, a gas commonly used for industrial fumigation that can damage your lungs, heart and liver

While scientists still aren’t sure how phosphine wreaks so much havoc on the body, some are developing medications that can help mitigate the harm it causes.

The Conversation

Norobiik @[email protected]Aug 14, 2024

#Venus seems like an unlikely place to find life due to its blisteringly hot surface temperatures sufficient to melt lead and its fearsome surface pressure. But the presence of #phosphine and #ammonia in it's clouds implies that if life could exist there, it would be found high above the Venusian surface.

#Space

Venus may be able to support #life new atmospheric evidence suggests
https://www.space.com/venus-atmosphere-phosphine-ammonia-possibility-of-life

Venus may be able to support life, new atmospheric evidence suggests

"Whether it's in penguin poop or badger guts, we don't know why bacteria make phosphine, but they do."

Space

GeekProjects News Jul 20, 2024

The Continuing Venusian Mystery of Phosphine and Ammonia https://hackaday.com/2024/07/19/the-continuing-venusian-mystery-of-phosphine-and-ammonia/ #Phosphine #Science #Space #venus

The Continuing Venusian Mystery Of Phosphine And Ammonia

The planet Venus is in so many ways an enigma. It’s a sister planet to Earth and also within relatively easy reach of our instruments and probes, yet we nevertheless know precious little abou…

Hackaday

©Mar 2, 2024

Life could exists in the clouds on Venus, I've read. Or vast underwater oceans within the moons of the outer planets.

https://www.livemint.com/science/news/is-there-life-on-venus-heres-what-new-evidence-of-phosphine-in-clouds-of-venus-indicates/amp-11689040248584.html

#CHNOPS stands for #Carbon, #Hydrogen, #Nitrogen, #Oxygen, #Phosphorus, and #Sulfur. These six elements make up 98% of living matter on Earth! How does that help you? If you understand the chemical behavior of CHNOPS, you can understand almost all of biochemistry.

CHNOPS: Elements of Life - #Socratica

https://www.socratica.com/pages/chnops-elements-of-life#:~:text=CHNOPS%20stands%20for%20Carbon%2C%20Hydrogen,understand%20almost%20all%20of%20biochemistry.

#phosphine #clouds #Venus

Life on Venus? Here's what new evidence of phosphine in clouds indicates | Mint

Scientists have detected phosphine gas in the clouds of Venus, sparking debate about the possibility of life on the planet. Initial study couldn't be replicated, but new findings suggest phosphine at deeper levels.

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