NASA’s Asteroid Sample Reveals a Shocking Link Between Space and Earth’s Salt Lakes
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...
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1st supernovas may have flooded the early universe with water — making life possible just 100 million years after the Big Bang
A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...
Briny Traces in NASA’s Asteroid Sample Hold Clues to the Chemistry of Life
The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...
Understanding supercooled water: how liquid remains unfrozen below its freezing point
Earlier this week we broke down the complexities of mixed-phase precipitation forecasting.Within that we briefly touched on a key component to that complexity w ...
Pushing the frontiers of frozen water: Computer simulations examine effects of shear on medium-density amorphous ice
Water is ubiquitous and seemingly ordinary, possessing no distinct color or odor. Though we often take water for granted, it ...
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Printable molecule-selective nanoparticles enable mass production of wearable biosensors
Researchers have developed a way to print nanoparticles like ink, creating inexpensive sweat sensors that can continuously monitor multiple molecules.