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It’s what underneath that counts
Long-standing recycling of ancient sulfur in billion-year-old rocks supplies energy to terrestrial deep subsurface biosphere and sheds insights into search for life on Mars
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Weak atomic bond, theorized 14 years ago, observed for first time
A Purdue University physicist has observed a butterfly Rydberg molecule, a weak pairing of two highly excitable atoms that he predicted would exist more...
Forging a brand-new chemical bond using the pressure of the Mars core
The crystal structure of FeBi2 reveals never-before-observed iron (red) to bismuth (purple) bond (green).Credit: American Chemical Society
When it comes to making chemical bonds, some...
Discovery of “lost” early satellite data to aid understanding of the Earth’s climate
Meteosat-1 imagery from 4 February, 1979. Credit: European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)
Serendipity, expertise, foresight and the equivalent of an...
The search for dark matter
The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment was one of the biggest efforts to directly detect dark matter. It was located a mile deep in...
Humanity decimating planetary wildlife – Nearly three-fifths of all animals with a backbone have...
The world is facing the biggest extinction since the dinosaurs, with seven in 10 mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles wiped out in just...
Study finds that ‘super emitters’ are responsible for more than half of U.S. methane...
A new study finds that just a few natural gas wells account for more than half of the total volume of leaked methane gas...
World’s most precise clock set for commercial countdown
The sapphire crystal on display at the University of Adelaide. Credit: University of Adelaide
The world's most precise clock has been fine-tuned to boost radar...
‘Neighbor maps’ reveal the genome’s 3-D shape
Simulation of 3-D chromosomes structure. Credit: SISSA
A group coordinated by SISSA Trieste has built a 3-D computer model of the human genome. The shape...
Australian desert telescope views sky in radio technicolour
The GLEAM view of the centre of the Milky Way, in radio colour. Red indicates the lowest frequencies, green the middle frequencies and blue...
Cosmic Horseshoe Is Not the Lucky Beacon
The Cosmic Horseshoe, as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA.
Astronomers use observations of a gravitationally lensed galaxy to measure the...
