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Can plant leaves help us find buried human remains?

You would think that a plant scientist would go home to a farm, but Neil Stewart used to work with potatoes, not human cadres. Influenced by environmental pollutants, Stuart was on a tour at the University of Tennessee’s ‘Body Farm’ – formally known as the Anthropology Research Facility – where …

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Sorry, Amazon wins Jedi deal again after Microsoft re-evaluates

Photo: Dennis Charlotte (Getty Images) Department of Defense after a month-long investigation by the Pentagon Said Friday It is sticking to its 10 10 billion cloud computing deal with Microsoft. And there is Amazon No Happy. As a quick refresher: Microsoft was awarded the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, …

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The moon is rusting, embarrassing scientists

In this combined image of the Moon Mineral Gygi Mapper (M3) aboard the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Chandrayaan-1 orbiter, blue areas, water is concentrated at the moon’s poles. Coming to the spectrum of rocks there, the researcher found signs of hematite, a form of rust. Credit: ISRO / NASA / …

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