Over the past week we’ve witnessed the many political discussions that go with the territory of a COP – or, more verbosely, the “Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change”.
COP30 is the…
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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shines in new image captured after close pass by the sun (photo)
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS captured by astronomer Gianluca Masi on Nov. 19. (Image credit: Gianluca Masi, Virtual Telescope Project) Astronomer Gianluca Masi captured a spectacular image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on Nov. 19, as it raced…
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Rocks on Faults Can Heal Following Seismic Movement
Earthquake faults deep in the Earth can glue themselves back together following a seismic event, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Davis. The work, published Nov. 19 in Science Advances and supported by…
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Did the first animal look like a sponge or a comb jelly? The debate continues. – Berkeley News
- Did the first animal look like a sponge or a comb jelly? The debate continues. Berkeley News
- Which animal really came first? The debate may finally be settled Earth.com
- Fierce Debate About Earth’s First Animal Heats Up Nautilus | Science…
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Sponge vs. Comb Jelly: First Animal Debate Ongoing
Biologists who study the evolutionary origin of animals got a bit of a surprise this month when a new study reached the opposite conclusion from a study two years ago about which organisms root the animal tree of life. Both studies…
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Pegasus XL dusted off for NASA’s Swift rescue run • The Register
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, facing the risk of an uncontrolled dive back to Earth, is set for a rescue ride on a Pegasus XL, the air-dropped rocket that hasn’t flown since 2021.
Flagstaff-based Katalyst has announced that the rocket…
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Cryo-EM reveals how proteins are protected during synthesis
Proteins are often called the building blocks of cells, but even those building blocks need to be built. One of the most important steps in the process of building proteins is glycosylation, when sugar molecules (glycans) are…
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Cassini Study Found Organics From An Ocean Inside Enceladus – astrobiology.com
- Cassini Study Found Organics From An Ocean Inside Enceladus astrobiology.com
- NASA Cassini Study Finds Organics ‘Fresh’ From Ocean of Enceladus NASA (.gov)
- Supercomputers decode the strange behavior of Enceladus’s plumes ScienceDaily
- Odds of…
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