Life on Mars? UNLV professor leads study of first soil samples from Mars
This isn’t any conspiracy theory or pseudoscience: Using samples collected from NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, Hausrath ...
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Scientists find a 'next step on a pathway to life' in space
Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...
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Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Researchers have ...
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We need a universal approach to sharing biomedical samples
This is common. Those of us in research routinely store patient samples — blood, fluids, tissue, scrapings, and other biological materials — collected during clinical care. The National Bioethics ...
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Are we all aliens? NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday. The findings provide the ...
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Asteroid Bennu Is Packed with Life’s Building Blocks, New Studies Confirm
Three years earlier NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft had grabbed these samples from the surface of the asteroid Bennu for their fateful delivery to Earth. The hope was that the coal-black material ...
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Human brain samples contain an entire spoon’s worth of nanoplastics, study says
Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall ...
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Scientists Discover Traces of Salt Water and Building Blocks of Life in NASA’s Samples From the Asteroid Bennu
Rob Wardell, Tim Gooding and Tim McCoy, Smithsonian In a triumph for NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, new findings suggest that tiny bits of rock retrieved from the asteroid Bennu ...
Covid Test Manufacturer Maintains Win Over Saliva Sample Patent
Spectrum Solutions LLC successfully defended on appeal a district court ruling that its home saliva-collection kits for Covid-19 testing don’t infringe a DNA Genotek Inc. patent.
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'Erosion of trust': Omari Cryer's family releases statement after LMPD defends officers' actions
The family of 25-year-old Omari Cryer, who was shot and killed when police were trying to serve a warrant, are speaking out after Louisville Metro Police Department defended officers' actions in the ...
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US President Donald Trump criticized $21 million funding for voter turnout in India and $29 million to strengthen Bangladesh's political landscape. He questioned the allocation of such substantial ...