Key ingredient for life on Earth may have come from outer space
Phosphates forged in space made their way to Earth on comets and asteroid.
Tag: phosphorus
The forests won’t fix our CO2 problem — in fact, they’ll scrub less than we assumed
Humanity gives with one hand and takes with the other. We just take a lot more than we give.
Meteorites crashing into early Earth might have supplied all the precious biocompatible phosphorus
Scientists track how a critical chemical element for life got to our planet.
New study debunks preposterous claims of arsenic-thriving bacteria
In 2010, a NASA study published in the journal Science heralded the discovery of a bacteria, called GFAJ-1, which the authors ...
New MRI technique allows 3-D imaging of non-living material
Researchers at Yale University have successfully mange to utilize a novel MRI technique to 3-D image the insides of hard ...
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Should Pluto be promoted to a planet again?
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