Detective work enables Perseverance Mars rover team to revive SHERLOC instrument
After six months of effort, an instrument that helps the Mars rover look for potential signs of ancient microbial life has come back online.
After six months of effort, an instrument that helps the Mars rover look for potential signs of ancient microbial life has come back online.
Planetary Sciences
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Scientists have eagerly awaited the opportunity to dig into the 4.3-ounce (121.6-gram) pristine asteroid Bennu sample collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security—Regolith ...
Planetary Sciences
Jun 26, 2024
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The forest fires in Canada during the summer of 2023 were particularly devastating. With the destructive impact on human infrastructure, plumes of smoke covering thousands of square kilometers and millions of tons of CO2 ...
Environment
Jun 26, 2024
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It is becoming increasingly obvious that pharmaceutical residues in wastewater are damaging to the environment, making it imperative that wastewater is tested for such residues. However, wastewater measurements are expensive ...
Environment
Jun 26, 2024
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Marine organisms produce many organic compounds with diverse chemical structures and biological activities. These natural marine products are regarded as potential starting points for the discovery and development of new ...
Biochemistry
Jun 26, 2024
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A research team from the University of Jena has developed a small optical lens, only a few millimeters in size, whose refractive behavior changes in the presence of gas. As reported by the researchers in the journal Nature ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 26, 2024
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Many municipal landfills "burp" gas from decomposing organic matter rather than letting it build up. And burps from buried waste containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) can release these "forever chemicals" ...
Environment
Jun 26, 2024
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The Kane County Forest Preserve District will soon put in place a new policy designed to reduce light pollution, which officials say hurts wildlife in and around the district's preserves.
Ecology
Jun 26, 2024
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More than 100,000 oil and gas wells across the western U.S. are in areas burned by wildfires in recent decades, a new study has found, and some 3 million people live next to wells that in the future could be in the path of ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 26, 2024
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A paper published in the current issue of the Journal of Health Communication by Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) researchers finds evidence that holding science-consistent beliefs about the public health effects of ...
Social Sciences
Jun 25, 2024
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