We now know how gold crystals begin to form on an atomic basis. For the first time, scientists observed – and filmed! – The first milliseconds of gold crystal formation and found that it is more complex than previous research suggested. Instead of a single, irreversible transition, the atoms come …
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It is the largest and strangest of all the formations on Earth: huge, mysterious blobs of ga ense stone hidden deep in the lower parts of our planet’s mantle. These include two large populations called the Large Low-Shear-Vagilance Provinces (LLSVPs) – one buried under Africa and the other under the …
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Studies of mammals have shown that various environmental effects such as ‘memories’ such as diet, weight and stress are passed down from father to offspring, although these states are not coded into sperm-driven DNA sequences. Now, we have a new understanding of how this is possible. The story has a …
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For decades, we have dreamed of visiting other star systems. There’s only one problem – it’s so far away from a conventional spaceflight, it would take thousands of years to reach even the nearest one. Physicists are not the kind of people who leave easily. Give them an impossible dream, …
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It is difficult to imagine what the earth would have looked like in the years before life began. Geological investigators have now found more evidence that it was different than the planet we live on today. According to a new analysis of the features of the Earth’s crust over its …
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