You know that feeling when everyone tells you something is impossible, so you never even try? That is what happened in chemistry for a hundred years. Students memorized a rule, one called Bredt’s rule, and then everyone obeyed it. Professors…
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AI predicts next breakthroughs in Raman spectroscopy from 176,000 published studies
An AI framework has transformed 176,000 Raman spectroscopy papers into an interactive knowledge graph that captures both the history and future of the field. By combining text mining with citation networks, it identifies milestone discoveries…
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These asteroids share a strange fingerprint from billions of years ago
Approximately 4.6 billion years ago our solar system formed from a huge disk of gas and dust orbiting our Sun. The asteroids we see today are some of the most complete artifacts of this formation left for us to observe, like the screws, offcuts,…
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See A Six-Planet ‘Parade’ On Saturday After Rare ‘Black Moon’
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Skywatchers will be treated to a rare spectacle on Saturday, Aug. 23, as six planets line up in a pre-dawn parade. Also called a planetary alignment, the display will feature Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Uranus and Neptune. Four of…
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Nasa halting 41 key missions due to Trump’s fund cuts, agency’s funding at lowest since 1961 – Firstpost
The US government science programmes face a reckoning under the Trump administration and Nasa has emerged as one of the most prominent casualties. The administration’s proposed budget reductions would slash Nasa’s resources to levels not seen…
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Are we accidentally broadcasting our location to alien civilizations?
If an extraterrestrial intelligence were looking for signs of human communications, when and where should they look? In a new study, researchers at Penn State and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California analyzed when and where…
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All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It’s So Much Older Than We Thought.
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All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA.
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A study suggests that this organism likely lived on Earth only 400…
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What’s a black moon? Here’s what to expect this weekend
ATLANTA — The moon goes by many names. August saw the full sturgeon moon while in March sky-gazers may have witnessed the blood moon, which occurs when the satellite appears to turn red during a lunar eclipse. You may have also heard of a blue…
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One of the earliest galaxies in the universe was rich in oxygen. Could it mean life evolved earlier than we thought?
A monster galaxy from the early universe shows that the cosmos was rich with oxygen when it was only less than 3% of its present age, astronomers have found. The discovery raises questions about how early life could have first appeared in the…
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Watch Blue Origin launch its 200th payload on 35th New Shepard spaceflight Aug. 23
Blue Origin plans to launch its 35th New Shepard mission on Saturday (Aug. 23), and you can watch live.
The commercial spaceflight company, which was founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, will send its 200th payload above the Kármán line on this…
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