Earth's sister planet, Venus, has not been regarded as a high priority in the search for life. Its surface temperature of around 450°C is thought to be hostile to even the hardiest of micro-organisms, and its thick, sulfurous ...
Astronomy
Sep 15, 2020
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An international team of astronomers, led by Professor Jane Greaves of Cardiff University, today announced the discovery of a rare molecule—phosphine—in the clouds of Venus. On Earth, this gas is only made industrially, ...
Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2020
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Phosphine is among the stinkiest, most toxic gases on Earth, found in some of the foulest of places, including penguin dung heaps, the depths of swamps and bogs, and even in the bowels of some badgers and fish. This putrid ...
Astrobiology
Dec 19, 2019
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A team of researchers with the University of Nottingham, Jealott's Hill International Research Centre and the GlaxoSmithKline, Medicines Research Centre, has found a way to use a phosphine oxide catalyst to make nucleophilic ...
Corn, wheat and rice constitute 90 percent of cereal production globally, and around 40 percent of all calories in food consumed. Yet up to half of those harvested cereal grains, so vital for our daily diets, can be lost ...
Materials Science
Aug 1, 2018
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Researchers worldwide continue search for better luminescent materials for OLED manufacturing. Two new compounds with europium complexes developed at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in ...
Materials Science
Apr 2, 2014
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