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AI materials discovery now needs to move into the real world

David Rotman

The grand prize would be a room-temperature superconductor, a material that could transform computing and electricity but that has eluded scientists for decades. Periodic Labs, like Lila Sciences, h ...[Continue Reading]

MIT Technology Review

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Christianity May Have Brought Face Tattoos to Medieval Nubia

Margherita Bassi

People around the world have been adorning their bodies with tattoos for thousands of years. While one of the most famous ancient tattoo wearers is Otzi the Icemanthe prehistoric man whose 5,300-year ...[Continue Reading]

Gizmodo.com

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RNA May Be Common throughout the Cosmos, New Study Suggests

Jonathan O'Callaghan

How life begins remains an unsolved question. One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have ...[Continue Reading]

Scientific American

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Amid Trumps Proposed Pipeline Safety Rollbacks, Senator Questions Regulators Industry Ties

Jesse Coburn

Two appointees of the administration of President Donald Trump at the nations pipeline regulator are facing ethics questions from a top lawmaker on the Senate committee that oversees their agency, fo ...[Continue Reading]

ProPublica

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It Didn't Take Long For Earth's Ancient Oceans To Become Oxygenated

Evan Gough, Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)

Every biologist knows how important the Great Oxygenation Event was. It took the first photosynthetic organisms hundreds of millions of years to enrich Earth's atmosphere with oxygen, leading to comp ...[Continue Reading]

Universe Today

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NextSTEP-3 B: Moon to Mars Architecture Studies

Danny Baird

Notice ID: M2M-MSFC-0001 NAICS Codes: <ul><li>541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)</li></ul>NASA seeks indust ...[Continue Reading]

NASA

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