life signs
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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In Jonathan Miles’s “Eradication: A Fable,” a schoolteacher who has never held a gun in his life signs up to cull 3,000 invasive goats on a remote island.
The system also has a bright star which will make it easier to look for life signs in the planets' atmospheres.
From BBC
Many are optimistic of detecting life signs on a faraway world within our lifetimes - possibly in the next few years.
From BBC
Even if they don't find life signs on K2-18b, the team has 10 more Goldilocks planets on their list to study and possibly many more after that.
From BBC
The technique may soon resolve a number of scientific mysteries on Earth, including the origin of 3.5 billion-year-old black sediments from Western Australia -- hotly debated rocks that some researchers contend hold Earth's oldest fossil microbes, while others claim they are devoid of life signs.
From Science Daily
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