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A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

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Feb. 7, 2025 — A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed into mRNA precursors, is correctly assembled into ...

February 7, 2025 • The San Jose was a marvel of 17th century technology. The Spanish galleon weighed more than a thousand tons, was made of wood reinforced with iron, and featured three masts ...