By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, scientists have started developing a library of basalt-based spectral signatures that not only will help reveal the composition of ...

Observing our planet from the International Space Station since July 2022, NASA's EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source ...

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Biden's Climate Adviser John Podesta blended pragmatism and persistence in a statement emphasizing the vital stakes of a ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe – and in any hypothetical ones beyond it – can be estimated by a new ...

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In two recently published papers, scientists successfully recreated the mitochondria (in a simple form) and biochemical ...

Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have used supercomputer simulations to predict electric charge distributions in ...