Researchers analyzing pulverized rock onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover have found the largest organic compounds on the Red Planet to date. The finding, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests prebiotic…
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Mathematicians uncover the logic behind how people walk in crowds | MIT News
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…
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How silicon turns tomato plants into mean, green, pest-killing machines
Silicon powers more than electronics: In tomato plants, it fuels a complex defense system that could help farmers use fewer pesticides.
Tomato plants on four continents are currently under attack from the South American tomato…
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NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List #1,141 21 March 2025 (Space Life Science Research Results)
Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager/space biologist, Away Teams,…
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17-Year-Old Discovers Black Hole Echo Bigger Than the Milky Way
A high school student in New York has stumbled onto a massive discovery — a cosmic light echo possibly spanning twice the width of the Milky Way. While scanning space for signs of dying stars, 17-year-old Julian Shapiro identified a glowing…
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JWST spots an energetic ‘Cosmic Tornado’ 625 light-years away
A powerful “Cosmic Tornado” has received a high-definition glow-up thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The new look at Herbig-Haro 49/50 (HH 49/50) released today also answers a question that’s kept astronomers…
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Unmasks True Nature of the Cosmic Tornado
Craving an ice cream sundae with a cherry on top? This random alignment of Herbig-Haro 49/50 — a frothy-looking outflow from a nearby protostar — with a multi-hued spiral galaxy may do the trick. This new composite image combining…
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Airbus, Boeing turn to thermoplastics over aluminum for fuel-saving jets
In a quiet yet significant shift, Airbus and Boeing are rethinking their approaches to aircraft manufacturing in preparation for the next generation of passenger jets.
Both companies have set ambitious production targets designed to transform…
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Chimpanzees act as ‘engineers’, choosing materials to make tools based on structural and mechanical properties
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the Jane Goodall Institute in Tanzania, the University of Algarve…
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Why Don’t We Remember Specific Events from Our First Years of Life?
Challenging assumptions about infant memory, a new Yale University-led study shows that infants as young as 12 months old can encode memories. The findings suggest that infantile amnesia — the inability to remember our first few years of…
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