• November 6, 2009. FfAME scientists are featured tonight on Bloomberg News as part of their "Innovators" program. Airing times are Fri: 9:00pm, 11:00pm; Sat: 3:00pm, 6:00pm, 8:00pm, 10:00pm; Sun: 12:00am 10:00am, 1:00pm, 4:00pm. The episode will also appear this evening on the Bloomberg Innovators webpage.

• November 6, 2009. Prof. Steven Benner will participate in a Pontifical Academy Study week on Astrobiology at the Vatican in Italy. He will be presenting a talk entitled: "Towards a Theory of Life."

• October 20, 2009. Prof. Steven Benner will be giving a public lecture on "Life, the Universe and the Scientific Method" in Seattle, WA. The lecture is sponsored by the Astrobiology program at the University of Washington. He will also be signing books on campus.

• October 9, 2009. Bloomberg News, as part of its "Innovators" series, has interviewed scientists at the FfAME, for viewing later this month.

• October 7, 2009. Prof. Steven Benner will be giving a talk on "The Role of Planet Earth in Life's Origins" at Harvard University Biological Laboratories (Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Avenue, Room 1068). He will also be signing books in Cambridge, MA on October 6.

Steven Benner (right), Distinguished Fellow at the FfAME, discussing molecular structure with Jack Szostak at dinner just after the Prize was announced.

• October 5, 2009. Jack Szostak wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology for Medicine. Prof. Szostak at the Massachusetts General Hospital is a long time collaborator of scientists at the FfAME, most recently in a project funded by the National Science Foundation under its Chemical Bonding program.

• April 6, 2009. Paleogenetics: A Quarter Century Old. The spring of 2009 marks the 25th anniversary of the first paper taking steps to resurrect ancient genes and proteins from extinct organisms to test historical hypotheses and join natural history to the physical sciences. These first steps in the laboratory of Steven Benner, then at Harvard but now at the FfAME, opened the new field of experimental paleogenetics. Today, over two dozen paleogenetics studies have helped us understand how humans adapted to alcohol, dinosaurs saw colors, and bacterial life originated.

• Yahoo! News: Vatican looks to heavens for signs of alien life
November 10, 2009

• Seed Magazine: What Life Leaves Behind
November 9, 2009

• Bloomberg News: X-Prize Effect
November 6, 2009

• EarthSky: Steven Benner: incremental step to artificial life
April 27, 2009

• Science Magazine (Origins blog): NESCent Symposium Covers Applied Evolution.
February 26, 2009

• The Economist: The lonely planet guide.
February 19, 2009

• MSNBC: Search for 'alien life' could start on Earth.
February 17, 2009

• Seed Magazine: Excitement and Caution at AAAS.
February 17, 2009

• FOX News: New Artificial DNA Points to Alien Life.
February 16, 2009

• Wired (blog): The Hunt for E.T. Comes Home — to Earth.
February 15, 2009