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New AI approach accelerates targeted material discovery and creates foundation for self-driving experiments

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Specification of an example experimental goal and translation into an automated data acquisition strategy. a Visualization of the design space and the corresponding measured property space for an example material system. Samples from the design space (a discrete set of design points) are directly mapped to a set of measured properties (measured property space). The … Read more

This is how American astronomers helped make a galactic discovery ‘on the level of Bigfoot’

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SALT LAKE CITY — In a galaxy that spans many light-years and is more than 13 billion years old, it stands to reason that major astronomical discoveries are rare, to say the least. Omega Centauri, a global cluster of millions of stars, is nestled in the Milky Way. The stars are so close to the … Read more

Webb’s Discovery of a Super-Earth: Potentially Habitable World Just 48 Light Years Away

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Temperate exoplanet LHS 1140 b may be a world completely covered in ice (left), similar to Jupiter’s moon Europa, or an icy world with a liquid substellar ocean and a cloudy atmosphere (center). LHS 1140 b is 1.7 times the size of Earth (right) and is the most promising exoplanet in the habitable zone found … Read more

New discovery increases efficiency and profits of bioethanol production

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Microbial dynamics during fermentation influence the performance of industrial bioethanol production. Credit: Nature communication (2024). DOI file: 10.1038/s41467-024-49683-2 A new technique to monitor pollution in bioethanol production could increase revenues by more than $1.6 billion and reduce carbon emissions.2 -emissions by 2 million tons. For the first time ever, researchers from the Novo Nordisk Foundation … Read more

Discovery of organic material on Mars offers clues to origins of life on Earth

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Mars Organic Material Discovery Offers Clues to Earth's Life Origins

A recent discovery on Mars has shed light on the possible origins of life on Earth. Researchers have found that organic material present in the sediment of ancient Martian lakebeds points to widespread carbon chemistry on the Red Planet. This discovery provides valuable insights into how the ingredients for life arrived on our planet billions … Read more

Chemical discovery on Mars provides clues to origins of life on Earth

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A little over a decade ago, a robotic rover on Mars finally found an answer to a burning question. It is now clear that the Red Planet does indeed have organic material buried in the sediment of its ancient lakebeds. Since then, we’ve found more and more organic molecules on Mars that are distributed in … Read more

Wine lovers have dinosaurs to thank for the discovery of 60 million year old grape seeds

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A group of scientists from the Field Museum in Chicago recently discovered fossilized grape seeds that could provide a link between dinosaurs and the many types of wine available today. The South American study found nine new fossil grape species that are at least 19 million years old. The oldest species was found in a … Read more

Groundbreaking discovery: How zinc could change agriculture forever

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A new study reveals the crucial role of zinc in regulating nitrogen fixation in legumes via a sensor called FUN. This discovery could help improve crop efficiency and reduce the use of synthetic fertilizers by adapting to environmental and soil conditions. Researchers have discovered that zinc has a significant impact on the nitrogen fixation process … Read more

The earliest, most distant galaxy discovered with the Webb telescope dates to 300 million years after the Big Bang

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This infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was taken by the Near-Infrared Camera for the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey program – Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Brant Robertson (UC Santa Cruz), Ben Johnson (CfA), Sandro Tacchella (Cambridge), Phill Cargile (CfA) For two years, an international team has been studying what astronomers call … Read more

The real treasure wasn’t gold: Surprising discovery reveals secrets of ancient Greek shipwreck

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Kyrenia ship hull during excavations. Kyrenia ship hull on the seabed off the coast of Northern Cyprus during underwater excavations in the late 1960s. Credit: Image provided to authors by the Kyrenia Ship Excavation team for use with this article, CC-BY 4.0 Cornell researchers have refined the estimated sinking period of the Kyrenia shipwreck to … Read more