A new study shows that, at an incredibly small scale, the building blocks inside the asteroid Bennu are not evenly mixed. Instead, organic material and minerals are grouped into three clearly different chemical regions. These findings help…
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Cell Lineage Tracing Reveals Early‑Segregated Germline in Plants—-Chinese Academy of Sciences
August Weismann’s germ plasm theory of the late 19th century posited that only germ cells, e.g., sperm and egg cells in animals or pollen and ovule cells in plants, transmit genetic information to the next generation, and that somatic mutations…
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Abu Dhabi scientists map magnetic waves deep inside the Sun
Scientists at New York University Abu Dhabi have discovered more kinds of magnetic waves within the Sun.
The findings may allow them to use these waves to study the powerful forces beneath the Sun’s surface.
Magnetic fields drive activity such as…
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Optical Fiber Arrays May Unlock Mysteries Of The Moon’s Deep Interior
With tomorrow’s launch of the Artemis II mission to the moon, NASA’s focus on our natural satellite is again gaining traction. To that end, two recent papers in the journals Earth and Space Science* and Icarus* point out how ordinary…
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Maunakea Telescope Maps Cosmic Galaxy Collision
An astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo is using data from the Canada-France-Hawaiʻi Telescope (CFHT) on Maunakea to help reconstruct a slow-motion cosmic collision, one that has been unfolding for hundreds of millions of…
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Northrop To Test New Solid Rocket Booster Nozzle
Northrop To Test New Solid Rocket Booster Nozzle | Aviation Week Network