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November 17, 2024
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On the origin of life and the formation of cell membranes



Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 14, 2024
The mystery of how life originated on Earth has fascinated scientists for generations. Central to this question is understanding how the first living cells acquired the membranes that allowed them to function and eventually evolve into more complex forms. Recent research led by Professor Neal Devaraj from the University of California San Diego's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry offers a possible answer. Published in 'Nature Chemistry', this study explores the potential formation of early c ... read more

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Scientists build spectral library to identify water on exoplanets
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 15, 2024
Cornell University researchers are constructing a library of basalt-based spectral signatures, examining chemical processes from Earth's hot mantle. This compilation aims to shed light on the compos ... more
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Telescope for NASA's Roman Mission complete, delivered to Goddard
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 15, 2024
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is one giant step closer to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. The mission has now received its final major delivery ... more
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Hubble observes effects of Large Magellanic Cloud's Encounter with the Milky Way
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 15, 2024
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a compelling view of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) after its interaction with the Milky Way's gaseous halo. Despite the impact stripping away most ... more
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Living microbes identified in Earth's driest desert using new technique
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 15, 2024
The Atacama Desert in Chile, known as the world's driest location, presents a harsh environment for life due to its extreme aridity. Despite this, research has discovered thriving microbial communit ... more
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Much ado about vacuum
Upton NY (SPX) Nov 16, 2024
When a cutting-edge facility like the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory, is ru ... more
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New pathway discovered for creating quantum spin liquid materials
London, UK (SPX) Nov 16, 2024
Scientists have developed a new approach to creating materials with disordered magnetic properties at the quantum level. This innovative ruthenium-based material meets the requirements for the elusi ... more
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Breakthrough in photonic time crystals may transform light control technologies
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 13, 2024
An international team of researchers has achieved a significant milestone by designing practical photonic time crystals-unique materials capable of exponentially amplifying light. This advancement p ... more
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Einstein's predictions face new challenges with universe's expanding puzzle
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 12, 2024
Why is the Universe's expansion speeding up? This question has baffled scientists for over 25 years since its discovery. Addressing it requires re-examining fundamental physics, particularly Einstei ... more

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Swift studies gas-churning monster black holes
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 14, 2024
Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of ... more
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Astronomers challenge traditional galaxy formation theories
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 13, 2024
Data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are challenging the long-held model of galaxy formation that posited the involvement of invisible dark matter. Researchers at Case Western Reserve Uni ... more
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A new model estimates odds of intelligent life across universes
London, UK (SPX) Nov 13, 2024
A fresh theoretical model developed by astrophysicists at Durham University offers a method to assess the likelihood of intelligent life appearing in our Universe, as well as in possible alternate u ... more
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Mining Voyager 2 data unlocks long-standing Uranus mysteries
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 12, 2024
NASA's groundbreaking flyby of Uranus by Voyager 2 in 1986 provided a wealth of data that puzzled scientists for decades. Recent analysis of that data has shed light on some of those mysteries. ... more
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Hurricane Helene's atmospheric waves captured by NASA's new AWE mission
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2024
On Sept. 26, 2024, as Hurricane Helene struck Florida's Gulf Coast with powerful storm surges and severe impacts, NASA's Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) captured unprecedented data on the atmosph ... more
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Astrophysicists explore light echoes to study black holes
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 08, 2024
A research team led by astrophysicists from the Institute for Advanced Study has introduced a groundbreaking technique to identify light echoes around black holes. This approach, which enables preci ... more
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NASA-funded research explores tidal impacts on planetary and lunar interiors
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 08, 2024
NASA-backed researchers have devised a novel approach to calculating how tidal forces influence the internal structures of planets and moons. Crucially, this research departs from the typical assump ... more
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Asteroid grains shed light on the outer Solar System's origins
Boston MA (SPX) Nov 07, 2024
Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have ... more
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Nearly EUR 10 Million Awarded for European Gravitational Wave and Particle Physics Initiative
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 06, 2024
The University of Bonn and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), in partnership with the Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies (IFAE) in Spain and Italy's Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (INFN-L ... more
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Dance of particles tracked in neutron star collision yields insights into heavy elements
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 05, 2024
The temperature of fundamental particles has been observed in the radioactive afterglow following a neutron star collision and subsequent black hole formation. This breakthrough provides scientists ... more
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Voyager 1 nearly 'one light day' out from Earth
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 05, 2024
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has recently resumed communication with Earth following a brief pause that drew attention to the mission's ongoing challenges and remarkable resilience. On Oct. 24, engin ... more
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Scientists prepare for the most ambitious sky survey yet
Lemont IL (SPX) Nov 05, 2024
On a mountain in northern Chile, scientists are carefully assembling the intricate components of the NSF - DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the ... more
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Optimal Learning Rates Revealed in New Study on Adaptation
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 04, 2024
Researchers at the Complexity Science Hub and Santa Fe Institute have unveiled a new model designed to determine how quickly or slowly an organism should adapt to changing environments. According to ... more
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NASA's Hubble and Webb examine the mysterious smooth disk around Vega
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 03, 2024
In the 1997 film "Contact," based on Carl Sagan's novel, the protagonist Ellie Arroway, played by Jodie Foster, takes a journey via a space-alien-constructed wormhole to the star Vega. What she find ... more
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Enhanced energy production through improved singlet fission efficiency
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 04, 2024
In organic molecules, an exciton is a pair formed by an electron with a negative charge and a corresponding positive charge hole. These two are bound together by Coulombic forces and can move within ... more
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NASA's SPHEREx to Map the Universe in Unprecedented Detail with Infrared Colors
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 03, 2024
NASA's SPHEREx mission, set for launch by April 2025, aims to provide an all-sky survey like no other, observing stars and galaxies in 102 different infrared colors. Although not visible to the huma ... more
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eROSITA detects unique temperature and shape variations in the Local Hot Bubble
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 31, 2024
A recent study from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) has mapped significant variations in temperature across the Local Hot Bubble (LHB), a low-density region surrounding o ... more
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Evidence mounts for dark energy from black holes
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Oct 31, 2024
Almost 14 billion years ago, at the very beginning of the Big Bang, a mysterious energy drove an exponential expansion of the infant universe and produced all known matter, according to the prevaili ... more
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Ariel spacecraft prepares for rigorous tests at Airbus facility
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 31, 2024
The European Space Agency's Ariel mission has officially entered its assembly phase at Airbus Defence and Space in Toulouse, France. The structural model of the Ariel spacecraft, designed to advance ... more
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Scientists challenge fundamental spin-statistics assumptions in atomic collisions
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 31, 2024
Since the first X-ray image of a comet was taken in 1996, researchers have intensely studied charge exchange in collisions between highly charged ions and atoms or molecules, a process critical for ... more
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DTU researchers reveal record-fast-spinning neutron star in the Milky Way
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 31, 2024
In a remarkable discovery, researchers from DTU Space have identified one of the universe's fastest-spinning neutron stars using an X-ray telescope stationed on the International Space Station (ISS) ... more
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Innovative model enables astronomers to explore explosive space events in new detail
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2024
Astrophysical events like the collapse of a massive star's iron core, known as a core-collapse supernova, the consumption of stellar remains by black holes, and runaway nuclear fusion on white dwarf ... more
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AXIS mission selected as NASA Astrophysics Probe competition finalist
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 30, 2024
The MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI) is a project lead for one of two finalist missions recently selected for NASA's new Probe Explorers program. Working with collaborat ... more
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