Smith – a senior research scientist at GIA – was examining the diamond for inclusions, chemical hitchhikers from the interior of our planet that can reveal how the crystal formed, and under what conditions. But working with high-value diamonds is a tricky business – ordinarily, it’s impossible for researchers to get their hands on the …
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Astronomers have finally captured the first images of the Sun’s chromosphere. The image was made possible thanks to the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope. The images that the National Science Foundation shared this week were taken back in June. Now, we can finally look at the part of the atmosphere resting just above the Sun’s …
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People have been exploring the surface of Mars for over 50 years. According to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairsnations have sent 18 human-made objects to Mars over 14 separate missions. Many of these missions are still ongoing, but over the decades of Martian exploration, humankind has left behind many pieces of debris …
A new examination of some of the oldest rocks in the world suggests that the first continents on Earth were unstable, and sank back into the mantle before making their way out again and reforming. This could explain some of the more puzzling characteristics of cratons, extremely old and stable parts of the lithosphere (the …
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Perseverance: Nasa Mars rover collects ‘amazing’ rock samplesBBC Mars rover nears milestone in ambitious plan to return first rocks from another planetScience NASA’s Mars perseverance rover hints at past life on Red PlantDNAIndiaNews Mars is littered with 15,694 pounds of human trash from 50 years of robotic explorationThe Conversation NASA provides highlights from Mars explorationAP …
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What scientists are learning from the James Webb Space Telescope’s imagesPBS NewsHour Can the James Webb Space Telescope really see the past?Livescience.com Harvard and MIT Scientists Warn That James Webb Data May Not Be What It SeemsFuturism LEGO replica of the NASA James Webb Space Telescope comes with the same complex folding design!Yanko Design Experts …
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Enlarge / Georgia Tech scientists found that the so-called “Cheerios effect” is the mechanism by which fire ants cluster together to form rafts. Hungtang Ko Fire ants might be the scourge of southern states like Georgia and Texas, but scientifically, they are endlessly fascinating as an example of collective behavior. A few fire ants spaced …
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The universe may contain extremely dense and exotic hypothetical cosmic objects known as strange quark stars. While astrophysicists continue to debate quark stars’ existence, a team of physicists has found that the remnant of a neutron star merger observed in 2019 has just the right mass to be one of these strange quark stars. When …
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Hundreds of millions of years ago, a carnivorous critter gorged on a feast of prehistoric amphibians – and puked up its meal afterward. Now, paleontologists have unearthed the regurgitation and published their findings of the ancient upchuck. In 2018, researchers discovered the regurgitalite – fossilized remains of an animal’s stomach contents, also known as a …
Earhart, Tempest or MUSE? Fans of planet Uranus have many ideas to name the next mission there, if an informal Internet poll is any indication. ExploreIGO, a Twitter fan account devoted to icy worlds, asked its community yesterday what to call a spacecraft visiting the big blue world. “We want to know, what would YOU …
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