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Curiosity Rover Gulps Mars Air, Finds Hint of Vanished Atmosphere
NASA’s Curiosity rover has gulped in Martian air but failed to find methane – a gas linked to living...
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Apollo Rocks Analysis: Solar Wind Made Moon Water
Analyzing grains of soil collected from three Apollo lunar missions, geochemists have figured out that the hydrogen in trace...
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Scientists Observe Quantum Effects in Cold Chemistry
At very low temperatures, close to absolute zero, chemical reactions may proceed at a much higher rate than classical...
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Freshest Mars Rock Contains Evidence for Water
A meteorite that fell in Morocco last year might contain the freshest evidence for water on Mars, according to...
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A Diamond Bigger Than Earth?
Orbiting a star that is visible to the naked eye, astronomers have discovered a planet twice the size of...
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Large Water Reservoirs at the Dawn of Stellar Birth
ESA’s Herschel space observatory has discovered enough water vapor to fill Earth’s oceans more than 2000 times over, in...
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Curiosity Set to Scoop Sand Sample That Could Reveal Ancient Life
NASA’s Curiosity rover is getting ready to take its first scoop of Martian soil. The analysis of the soil...
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Japanese Scientists Claim First Synthesis of Element 113
A group of Japanese scientists announced that they have finally synthesized the elusive element 113, which has been called...
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Ocean Bacteria Colonized Land 2.75 Billion Years Ago
Researchers at the University of Washington have determined that “some” microbial life migrated from the Earth’s oceans to land...
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Humongous, Gassy Halo Found Surrounding Milky Way
Our galaxy — and the nearby Large and Small Magellanic Clouds as well — appears to be surrounded by...