When materials are compressed, their atoms are forced into unusual arrangements that do not normally exist under everyday conditions. These configurations are often fleeting: when the pressure is released, the atoms typically relax back to a…
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From fleeting to stable: Scientists uncover recipe for new carbon dioxide-based energetic materials
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Are we asking the right questions to prevent tick-borne illnesses?
Despite decades of public health messaging about Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses, cases continue to rise, doubling nationwide since 2005. Now, a new paper from Cornell suggests that there is an opportunity to improve how researchers…
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Moon Impact Record Limits Meteorite Delivery of Earth’s Water
How did meteorite impacts on the Moon influence water being delivered to Earth when both planetary bodies were forming? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of…
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Moon Impact Record Limits Meteorite Delivery of Earth’s Water
How did meteorite impacts on the Moon influence water being delivered to Earth when both planetary bodies were forming? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of…
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Moon Impact Record Limits Meteorite Delivery of Earth’s Water
How did meteorite impacts on the Moon influence water being delivered to Earth when both planetary bodies were forming? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of…
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Earth’s Lower Orbit Could Rapidly Collapse, Scientists Warn, Raining Deadly Missiles Onto Planet Below
Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images If you thought humanity already had its hands full with climate change, think again.
With satellites and space junk increasingly cluttering our…
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Sea levels are rising—but in Greenland, they will fall
Even as global warming causes sea levels to rise worldwide, sea levels around Greenland will likely drop, according to a new paper published in Nature Communications. “The Greenland coastline is going to experience quite a different outcome,”…
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AI tool Helixer identifies genes in newly sequenced organisms
Researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf have developed a tool that could significantly transform genome research: Helixer identifies genes directly from DNA sequences—without laboratory experiments or…
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Ancient wooden tools from Greece are the oldest found yet
NEW YORK (AP) — Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430,000 years.
One is a spindly stick about 2 1/2 feet (80 centimeters) long…
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This ancient stick may be the world’s oldest handheld wooden tool
A digging stick and a tiny tool of unknown purpose are among the oldest handheld wooden tools ever found. The objects, from 430,000 years ago, indicate early human ancestors were using wood for tools, weapons and maybe shelters.
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