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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Redrawing the family tree – The Past
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There were at least five groups of hominins 70,000 years ago, but today there is just one…
All mixed up
Human beings may have suddenly doubled their age thanks to some recent…
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A better way to look for signs of ancient biology – The Economist
- A better way to look for signs of ancient biology The Economist
- Scientists train artificial intelligence to interpret prehistoric chemical jigsaw Dawn
- New method spots signs of Earth’s primordial life in ancient rocks Reuters
- Life may have…
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Detecting Lunar Water Ice Using VNIR Spectroscopy
Recently, researchers from the University of Hawaii investigated the Moon’s permanently shaded regions, examining how visible and near-infrared (VNIR) spectroscopy can locate and quantify water ice in these regions, as well as how factors such…
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Connectivity underlying motor cortex activity during goal-directed behaviour
Hubel, D. H. & Wiesel, T. N. Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat’s visual cortex. J. Physiol. 160, 106–154 (1962).
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2950 Feet Wide: Earth’s Largest Modern Crater Discovered in China – SciTechDaily
- 2950 Feet Wide: Earth’s Largest Modern Crater Discovered in China SciTechDaily
- Earth’s massive impact crater unearthed in Southern China The News International
- Researchers Find Surprisingly “Young” Meteorite Crater from the Dawn of Human…
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