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Garnet had never been confirmed in a Martian meteorite until researchers examining NWA 8171 at the Royal Ontario Museum found andradite inside a fragment smaller than one millimetre. Some surrounding minerals carry Martian chemistry, but scientists cannot
Deep Field
A rounded grain smaller than a millimetre has added a mineral to the known inventory of Mars. Tanya Kizovski and colleagues identified andradite, an iron- and calcium-rich member of the garnet family ...[Continue Reading]
Space Daily
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Noncitizens accused of illegal US voting challenge Trump's authority to prosecute them
By Tom Hals
By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Delaware, Sept 15 (Reuters) - As U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to crack down on what he says is widespread illegal voting by noncitizens, several people charged with that ...[Continue Reading]
Yahoo Entertainment
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See how gravitational waves warp time and space
Clara Moskowitz, Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
Since gravitational waves were first detected, in 2015, physicists have found almost 400 of these undulations in the fabric of spacetime. A new catalog of the findings, released this year, includes w ...[Continue Reading]
Scientific American
1 day ago
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The questions science may never answer
Sarah Scoles
Science, at its best, is a striving toward truth. It is not, although we often think of it as such, the search for absolute truth. Its more a process of systematically gathering and interpreting dat ...[Continue Reading]
Scientific American
1 day ago
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Google DeepMind wants Gemini to power many different robots
Adam Rogers
When Kanishka Rao was a kid, robots like the droids from Star Wars and Rosie from The Jetsons got pretty far into his head. And now that hes a principal software engineer at Google DeepMind, Rao is ...[Continue Reading]
Scientific American
1 day ago
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The Pentagon tests lasers and microwaves against drone swarms
Sarah Scoles
In June, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico. This stretch of desert had been a proving ground for barely a week when, in 1945, Manhattan Project s ...[Continue Reading]
Scientific American
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