The Cassini spacecraft took a daring plunge into the icy geysers of Saturn's moon Enceladus this week in search of telltale signs of a habitable environment.
Space Exploration
Oct 30, 2015
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An unmanned NASA spacecraft is set Wednesday to make its deepest dive ever into the icy spray emanating from the underwater ocean on Saturn's moon, Enceladus.
Space Exploration
Oct 28, 2015
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An unmanned NASA spacecraft is about to make its deepest dive ever into the icy spray emanating from the underwater ocean on Saturn's moon, Enceladus.
Space Exploration
Oct 26, 2015
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Comet Lovejoy lived up to its name by releasing large amounts of alcohol as well as a type of sugar into space, according to new observations by an international team. The discovery marks the first time ethyl alcohol, the ...
Space Exploration
Oct 23, 2015
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sing a simple nickel salt, A*STAR researchers have developed a mild, one-pot 'domino' reaction that can attach different hydrocarbon components to specific sites on a carbon–carbon double bond—a chemical trick essential ...
Materials Science
Oct 21, 2015
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The results of laboratory experiments involving Vitamin B3 by a team of NASA researchers support a theory that the origin of life may have been assisted by a supply of 'biologically important molecules produced in space and ...
Space Exploration
Jul 31, 2015
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Scientists say the Philae space probe has gathered data supporting the theory that comets can serve as cosmic laboratories in which some of the essential elements for life are assembled.
Space Exploration
Jul 30, 2015
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Rice University scientists have achieved the total synthesis of a scarce natural marine product that may become a powerful cancer-fighting agent – the molecule shishijimicin A.
Biochemistry
Jul 14, 2015
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Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, studied in detail by the European Space Agency Rosetta and Philae spacecraft since September 2014, is a body with distinct and unexpected features. Now two astronomers have a radical explanation ...
Space Exploration
Jul 6, 2015
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Researchers in Russia have developed a waste-free and cost-effective approach for preparing complex organic molecules and revealing the physical nature of the processes that control the direction of chemical transformations.
Materials Science
Jun 1, 2015
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