A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a tantalizing venue for humankind’s search for life beyond Earth.
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How bobcats protect us from diseases, Mongabay podcast explores
“Bobcats are disease defenders,” Zara McDonald, founder of the U.S.-based conservation nonprofit Felidae Conservation Fund, tells host Mike DiGirolamo on Mongabay’s weekly…
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Three Hundred Years Later, a Tool from Isaac Newton Gets an Update
Every day, researchers search for optimal solutions. They might want to figure out where to build a major airline hub. Or to determine how to maximize return while minimizing risk in an investment portfolio. Or to develop self-driving cars…
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Proxima Centauri Exhibits Extreme Flaring Activity, New ALMA Observations Show
Proxima Centauri’s flaring activity has been well known to astronomers using visible wavelengths, but new observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) highlight the star’s extreme activity at radio and…
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Mathematicians uncover the logic behind how people walk in crowds
Next time you cross a crowded plaza, crosswalk, or airport concourse, take note of the pedestrian flow. Are people walking in orderly lanes, single-file, to their respective destinations? Or is it a haphazard tangle of personal trajectories, as…
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5,700-year storm archive shows rise in tropical storms and hurricanes in the Caribbean
A storm, even once it has passed, can leave traces in the ocean that last for thousands of years. These consist of sediment layers composed of coarse particles, which are different from the finer sediments associated with good weather. In the…
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Biologists discover ancient neurohormone that controls appetite
A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a neurohormone controlling appetite in humans has an ancient evolutionary origin, dating back over half a billion years. The findings, published in Proceedings of the…
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Organic molecules of unprecedented size discovered on Mars
The longest organic molecules identified to date on Mars have recently been detected by scientists from the CNRS1, together with their colleagues from France, the United States of America, Mexico and Spain. These long carbon chains, containing up…
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A Shocking Discovery Shows Dark Energy Is Weakening—and We Might Be Wrong About How the Universe Ends
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The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration just dropped their first official data release, covering the first 13 months of the…
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