Bacteria live in tiny clay-filled cracks in solid rock millions of years oldCredit: Caitlin Devor, University of Tokyo, CC BY 4.0 Newly discovered single-celled creatures living deep beneath the seafloor have given…
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The National Science Foundation awards $75 million to a Columbia-led team to support major improvements necessary to advance high-energy physics.Credit: Photo: Courtesy of CERN Columbia University will lead a team of scientists in…
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The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded the Cologne-based geophysicist Professor Dr Joachim Saur with the ERC Advanced Grant. Saur will receive a total of 2.1 million euros in funding. The ERC Advanced Grant is considered the most…
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University of Arizona researchers probed Martian meteorites to reconstruct Mars' chaotic history. Their findings suggest that Mars might not have had a global magma ocean. In Jessica Barnes' palm is an ancient, coin-sized mosaic of glass,…
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Direct experimental evidence for markedly enhanced surface proton activity inherent to water iceCredit: NINS/IMS Water ice is one of the most abundant solid substances in nature and hydrated protons on the ice surfaces…
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Credit: Hiromichi Nakagawa Nearly a millennium and a half ago, red light streaked the night sky over Japan. Witnesses compared it to the tail of a pheasant -- it appeared as a fan of beautiful red feathers stretched across the sky.…
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An unidentified X-ray signature recently observed in nearby galaxies and galaxy clusters is not due to decay of dark matter, researchers report. The findings rule out previously proposed interpretations of dark matter particle physics.…
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A Kanazawa University researcher proposes a novel cosmological model to study thermodynamics on the horizon of the universeCredit: Kanazawa University Kanazawa, Japan - The expansion of the Universe has occupied the minds of astronomers…
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Model developed by Brazilian researchers shows chaotic phase that placed objects in current orbits beginning within first 100 million years after formation of giant planets The hypothesis that the Solar System was born from a gigantic…
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UCI, NASA scientists assess ice sheet with potential to raise global sea levels nearly 5 feetCredit: NASA Irvine, Calif., March 23, 2020 - East Antarctica's Denman Glacier has retreated 5 kilometers, nearly 3 miles, in the past 22 years,…
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These space giants would not have had the time to develop in the young Universe. Yet, observations say they were already present; a new study proposes a response to the mysteryCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech They are billions of times larger…
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Credit: NAOJ Astronomers have captured new, detailed maps of three nearby interstellar gas clouds containing regions of ongoing high-mass star formation. The results of this survey, called the Star Formation Project, will help improve our…
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Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview Former Tropical Cyclone Herold is now a fading area of low-pressure in the Southern Indian Ocean and NASA's Aqua satellite provided forecasters with a visible image. On Mar. 19 at 4 p.m. EDT (2100 UTC),…
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After an explosive device on the Hayabusa2 spacecraft fired a copper cannonball a bit larger than a tennis ball into the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, creating an artificial impact crater on it, researchers understand more about the…
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Credit: NASA/NRL Wind shear pushed former Tropical Cyclone Herold apart and infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed the system with very little strength remaining. NASA's Aqua satellite uses infrared light to analyze the…
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