Is there life floating in the clouds of Venus?
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A Traditional Eccentric!
As would be expected from the scientific community, there is now an article saying that there isn't phosphine on Venus. See Scientists Challenge Recent Discovery of a Biosignature on Venus
Interesting how the popular media keeps picking up on research that is "still in pre-print form and requiring the scrutiny of peer reviewers". Which, to me, makes it a non-story.
The phosphine discovery, on the other hand, was fully peer-reviewed before publishing in a major journal (Nature Astronomy).
The phosphine discovery, on the other hand, was fully peer-reviewed before publishing in a major journal (Nature Astronomy).
It appears that the team from Leiden University re-analysed the data from just one telescope and rejected it in the grounds of signal-to-noise ratio. However, from memory, the original research was done on data from two telescopes and that would reduce the signal-to-noise ratio problem.
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