Asteroid Bennu is thought to be made of rubble fragments from a 4.5-billion-year-old parent body, containing materials that originated beyond Saturn, which was destroyed long ago in a collision with another object. In two new papers,…
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Researchers Find Evidence for Relatively Recent Seismic Activity on Lunar Far Side
New research from Smithsonian Institution and the University of Maryland shows that lunar fault structures may be recently and potentially currently active within regions of interest for upcoming lunar missions.
Small ridges on the Moon’s…
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Materials can ‘remember’ a sequence of events in an unexpected way
Many materials store information about what has happened to them in a sort of material memory, like wrinkles on a once crumpled piece of paper. Now, a team led by Penn State physicists has uncovered how, under specific conditions, some materials…
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3 Questions: Modeling adversarial intelligence to exploit AI’s security vulnerabilities | MIT News
If you’ve watched cartoons like Tom and Jerry, you’ll recognize a common theme: An elusive target avoids his formidable adversary. This game of “cat-and-mouse” — whether literal or otherwise — involves…
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A Vision for a Decarbonized Future
This sponsored article is brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
As the world grapples with the urgent need to transition to cleaner energy systems, a growing number of researchers are delving into the design and optimization of
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Juno Detects Massive Volcanic Hotspot near Io’s South Pole
The newly-discovered volcanic hotspot is larger than Earth’s Lake Superior, and belches out eruptions six times the total energy of all the world’s power plants.
A massive hotspot can be seen just to the right of Io’s south pole in this…
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Trump orders sow chaos in global public health
A recent flurry of executive orders and surprise actions by the Trump administration have roiled WHO, the CDC and the international public health community.
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Lunar Ridges Reveal New Insights into the Moon’s Geological Activity
Did the Moon’s geological activity stop billions of years ago after it formed, or has it been active since then? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a…
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Planetary Scientists Offer New Explanation for Warm, Wet Ancient Mars
A team of planetary researchers led by Caltech has determined the chemical mechanisms by which the ancient Mars was able to sustain enough warmth in its early days to host water, and possibly life.
Adams et al. estimate that Mars experienced…
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New acoustic wave phenomenon discovered
A unique propagation phenomenon of acoustic waves has been discovered, paving the way for developing advanced communication technologies using acoustic devices. The research was led by the Institute for Materials Research at Tohoku University, in…
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