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Heavy Elements Key for Planet Formation
Planets form more commonly in star systems with relatively high concentrations of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, a...
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Fundamental Particle ‘Splits’ into Quasiparticles
In a feat of technical mastery, condensed-matter physicists have managed to detect the elusive third constituent of an electron...
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Solving the Mystery of Stardust Recycling
When middleweight stars near the end of their cosmic lives, they shrug off their outer layers, shedding up to...
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Sun’s Sibling Stars Could Host Cousins of Earth Life
Some scientists are searching not just for any life out there in the universe, but for our distant relatives....
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LHC is Back With Big Energy Boost
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is operating again after its winter break. At the beginning of April, opposing stable...
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Life’s Building Blocks Grow Close to Home
Though life is a complicated brew, some of its ingredients can be plucked from Earth’s backyard instead of being...
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Smallest Planet Yields Big Surprises
Mercury is even weirder than expected, NASA’s MESSENGER probe is showing. For starters, the planet’s interior is built differently...
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Did Life on Earth Come From Mars?
Given the same raw materials, Mars would have been a better host for life to arise than Earth, which...
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Violent History Preserved in Asteroid Grains
The world’s first asteroid sample return mission is providing some stunning insights to the evolution of the primordial pieces...
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NASA Detects Solid Buckyballs In Space
NASA has announced that astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope have found solid materials made out of Buckyballs in...