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In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia. Armed with a metal detector, he discovered something out of the ordinary – a very heavy, reddish rock resting in some yellow clay. He took…
The behavior of complex materials, such as gels and glasses, determines their stability and properties over time. To better understand their evolution, a team of researchers from Politecnico di Milano and Université de Montpellier – CNRS decided…

A critical nutrient used to produce the neurotransmitter serotonin may have turned up in samples collected from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission.
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Getting cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) is no easy task, as the recent launch of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft illustrated. Due to a thruster issue on the way to the ISS, the craft arrived a day later than expected, but…


The Joint Research Centre (JRC) compiled a Biomedical models Hub (BimmoH), the largest public database of scientific articles making use of human biology-based models used in biomedical research. This dataset is a milestone in the EU’s…

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