Is there life floating in the clouds of Venus?

[Ray Zdybrow]

Link to SETI Institute podcast for those still excited about this news!

 

[Serendipity]

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

 

[Brian G Turner]

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).

 

[mosaix]

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.