Ribose and glucose have been detected in pristine dust samples from the asteroid Bennu.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission successfully delivered a pristine piece of the early Solar System to Earth on 24 September 2023, following a seven-year journey to…
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Mars’ water mystery may have a simple ice answer
Small lakes on early Mars may have stayed liquid for decades, even though average air temperatures were far below freezing. New research suggests that cold conditions alone may not have prevented long-lasting surface water on the Red Planet.
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A star is born: Israeli team detects stellar-creation particles 400 light-years away
In a breakthrough, Israeli researchers have measured invisible particles known as cosmic rays deep inside a dust cloud 400 light-years from Earth.
The peer-reviewed study detecting these previously unobserved particles could help shed light…
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A new scan lets scientists see inside the human body in 3D color
Researchers at Caltech and USC have created a new medical imaging approach that quickly produces 3D color images showing both the physical structure of soft tissue and how blood vessels are working. The technique has already been used to image…
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Some early life forms may have breathed oxygen well before it filled the atmosphere | MIT News
Oxygen is a vital and constant presence on Earth today. But that hasn’t always been the case. It wasn’t until around 2.3 billion years ago that oxygen became a permanent fixture in the atmosphere, during a pivotal…
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A superfluid freezes and breaks the rules of physics
When everyday matter is cooled, it follows a familiar path. A gas becomes a liquid, and with further cooling, that liquid turns into a solid. Quantum matter does not always follow these rules. More than a century ago, scientists discovered that…
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A Newly Discovered Comet May Soon Appear Bright in Our Skies : ScienceAlert
A newly discovered comet has astronomers excited, with the potential to be a spectacular sight in early April.
C/2026 A1 (MAPS) was spotted by a team of four amateur astronomers with a remotely operated telescope in the Atacama desert on…
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How the Green River managed to cut straight through the already existing Uinta Mountains; scientists are surprised to know | World News
The long-standing question of how the Green River cut through the Uinta Mountains has taken a…
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Power of Tiny Molecular ‘Flycatcher’ Surprises Through Disorder
BYLINE: Jenny Green
Newswise — For decades, scientists assumed that order drives efficiency. Yet in the bustling machinery of mitochondria — the organelles that crank out…