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Chemistry that shaped the cosmos revealed in helium hydride reaction study
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 30, 2025 Immediately following the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was a searing cauldron of energy and particles. Within seconds, temperatures dropped enough for the first elements - mostly hydrogen and helium - to form, though they remained fully ionized. It wasn't until about 380,000 years later that conditions allowed for recombination, giving rise to neutral atoms and initiating the first chemical reactions. The earliest known molecule, the helium hydride ion (HeH+), formed when a n ... read more |
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One billion years of protein evolution reveals surprising design flexibilityMadrid, Spain (SPX) Jul 25, 2025 Proteins, the molecular machines of life, are constructed from 20 amino acids in seemingly infinite combinations-up to 10^78 possible sequences for a 60-residue protein. Yet only a tiny subset fold ... more 
Building blocks of life found in distant star system suggest origins in interstellar spaceBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 25, 2025 Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team led by Abubakar Fadul from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has detected 17 complex organic molecules in the protop ... more 
Alien life clues may emerge from deep sea volcanic vents on EarthLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2025 NASA has awarded $621,000 to University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist James Holden to investigate what life might look like on Europa, Jupiter's ice-covered moon. To pursue answers, Holden ... more 
Diverse rocky planets found around nearby red dwarf including one in the habitable zoneParis, France (SPX) Jul 24, 2025 A Canadian-led team has revealed the most detailed analysis yet of the L 98-59 planetary system, confirming the presence of a fifth planet within its habitable zone. The system, located just 35 ligh ... more |
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Meteorite amino acid triggers nanocavity formation in common clayBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 08, 2025 Researchers from the University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University have discovered that gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), an amino acid commonly found on meteorites, can induce the formation of nanoc ... more 
Clingy exoplanet may be triggering destructive stellar flaresParis, France (SPX) Jul 07, 2025 Astronomers using ESA's Cheops mission have observed a young exoplanet seemingly causing powerful flares from its host star-flares so intense they are rapidly stripping away the planet's delicate at ... more 
Earth-sized planets commonly found around smallest stars reveals CARMENES dataBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 03, 2025 Astronomers at Heidelberg University's Konigstuhl Observatory have found that Earth-sized planets are particularly prevalent around low-mass stars, according to new findings from the CARMENES projec ... more 
New exoplanet discovery reveals rare gas giant through global citizen science effortAlbuquerque, NM (SPX) Jun 26, 2025 A collaborative team of astronomers led by The University of New Mexico has confirmed a rare gas giant exoplanet, TOI-4465 b, located about 400 light-years from Earth. The discovery was enabled by a ... more 
Earth sized planets frequently orbit red dwarf stars study findsBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 30, 2025 Astronomers from Heidelberg University have found that Earth-like planets are especially common around low-mass stars, according to new results based on data from the CARMENES project. The internati ... more |
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Fish biofluorescence evolved independently over 100 times in evolutionary history
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2025 New research from the American Museum of Natural History has uncovered that fish biofluorescence-a phenomenon where organisms absorb light and emit it as a different color-has independently evolved over 100 times in the past 112 million years. This widespread trait is especially prevalent among species inhabiting coral reefs. Published in Nature Communications and PLOS One, the studies reveal that biofluorescent marine fishes exhibit a far broader range of colors than previously documented, emitti ... read more 
Desert lichen offers new evidence for the possibility of life on other planetsReno NV (SPX) Jun 26, 2025 The question of whether Earth is alone in harboring life has captivated humanity for millennia. In recent years, scientists have turned to Earth-like planets in other solar systems that may show the ... more |
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SkyMapper and SETI launch real time global astronomy data networkLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2025 SkyMapper has partnered with the SETI Institute to create a decentralized astronomical data network aimed at providing continuous, real-time sky observations to scientists, educators, and citizen as ... more 
Shaping of rocky planets traced to final stages of formationLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2025 Southwest Research Institute and Yale University scientists have compiled recent advancements in understanding how late-stage accretion shaped the evolution of the solar system's rocky planets. Thei ... more 
ALMA maps evolution of planet-forming gas disks over millions of yearsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 16, 2025 An international astronomy collaboration has uncovered new details about the life cycles of gas and dust disks that form planets, using observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter A ... more
Discovery of giant planet orbiting tiny star challenges theories on planet formationLondon, UK (SPX) Jun 11, 2025 Star TOI-6894 is just like many in our galaxy, a small red dwarf, and only ~20% of the mass of our Sun. Like many small stars, it is not expected to provide suitable conditions for the formation and ... more
Silicate clouds discovered in atmosphere of distant exoplanetDublin, Ireland (SPX) Jun 11, 2025 Astrophysicists have gained precious new insights into how distant "exoplanets" form and what their atmospheres can look like, after using the James Webb Telescope to image two young exoplanets in e ... more |
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