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Meteorite that crashed into NJ home holds building blocks of life, scientists say - Fox News

The rare meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home two years ago contains amino acids and organic compounds, scientists say in a newly published study.

By Fox News·12h ago

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Life Has Life Been Found on Mars? - Kyiv Post

A top biologist says yes.

By Robert Zubrin·12h ago

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How hot does it get in the desert? A climate scientist explains its blazing heat - The Conversation

Death Valley set a record when the temperature reached 134 degrees Fahrenheit. Here’s why deserts can reach such scorching temperatures – and also very cold ones.

By Shuang-Ye Wu·12h ago

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The Organisms That Make Earth’s Harshest Places Home - Quanta Magazine

Extremophiles that thrive in the most unforgiving environments aren’t just biological curiosities. Understanding their resilience has many implications for us.

By Quanta Magazine·12h ago

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Astronomers Found the Sun’s Missing Silver Hiding in Plain Sight - Gizmodo

For decades, astronomers puzzled over the Sun’s missing silver. Turns out, we just weren’t looking at it in the right way.

By Gayoung Lee·12h ago

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Earth’s Oceans Are Rapidly Losing Oxygen. It Could Destabilize the Planet - Gizmodo

Human activity is draining oxygen from marine waters, and it's past time to take this crisis seriously.

By Ellyn Lapointe·12h ago

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In a cave 18 metres below the surface at Movile in Romania, sealed off from the outside world for 5.5 million years, biologists have found 48 species that live on hydrogen sulphide and have never seen sunlight - Space Daily

A subterranean ecosystem where toxic fumes sustain life that has evolved in total darkness for millions of years challenges everything we thought we knew about the requirements for survival.

By Space Daily·12h ago

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Shroud of Turin DNA sheds light on its biological history - Phys.org

New research has uncovered the complex biological history preserved within DNA traces found on the Shroud of Turin, offering fresh insights into one of the world's most studied and debated historical artifacts.

By Phys.Org·12h ago

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Mysterious 'little red dots' at the beginning time may finally have an explanation, thanks to newfound 'little blue companions' - Live Science

Astronomers may have found an unexpected origin for the mysterious "little red dots" that appear to be so common in James Webb Space Telescope surveys of the early universe.

By Ivan Farkas·12h ago

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Bee brains reveal how colonies divide work without central planning - Phys.org

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Did Viking 1 find life on Mars 50 years ago? Here's why the debate continues - Space

"Viking more likely than not found autotrophic microbial life on Mars, roughly 1,000 cells per gram."

By Leonard David·12h ago

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Rising CO2 may already be showing up in human blood — a "potentially toxic atmosphere in 50 years" - Boing Boing

Blood bicarbonate rose 7% in 20 years as CO2 in human blood tracks the rising atmosphere, a new study finds.

By Ellsworth Toohey·12h ago

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Four astronauts, 3 spacecraft, 2 weeks in orbit: Artemis III will be NASA's most complicated mission ever - Space

No mission has ever coordinated this many launches.

By Josh Dinner·12h ago

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The science of foresight: how to future-proof your research - Nature

Anticipating from the start the various ways a research programme can succeed or fail can avoid problems later. Here’s how to do it.

By Nature.com·12h ago

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My job interviews for industry positions are going nowhere. How do I make myself stand out? - Nature

A postdoc researcher trying to move into an industry role wants help gaining traction and making it past the first interview stage.

By Nature.com·12h ago

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Rates of passerine body plan evolution in time and space - Nature

A reconstruction of the evolutionary history of passerine body plans over the past ~50 Myr shows rare bursts of phenotypic innovation near the origin of major taxonomic groups that are temporally aligned with periods of increased climatic instability. Similar…

By Nature.com·12h ago