Lab-made primordial soup yields RNA bases
If Thomas Carell is right, around 4 billion years ago, much of Earth might have been blanketed with a greyish-brown kind of mineral. This was no ordinary rock, however: it […]
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Organic Matter Found in 3.5-Billion-Year-Old Stromatolites
The Dresser Formation stromatolites have been thought to be of biogenic origin ever since they were discovered in the 1980s. However, despite strong textural evidence, that theory was unproven for […]
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Fastest-Orbiting Hot Jupiter Zips around Its Star in Just 18.4 Hours
NGTS-10 is a K5-type main-sequence star located approximately 1,060 light-years from Earth. The star is about 10 billion years old, moderately active, and has an effective temperature of 7,461 degrees […]
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This device harnesses the cold night sky to generate electricity in the dark
A new device is an anti-solar panel, harvesting energy from the cold night sky. By harnessing the temperature difference between Earth and outer space, a prototype of the device produced […]
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