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Top news from around the world Credit: NASA Advertisement CHILE Patches of glassy rocks scattered over a broad swath of the Atacama Desert contain minerals similar to a comet sampled by NASA’s Stardust Mission, new research finds. The rocks may have formed when a comet exploded over the desert and melted sand into glass. ANTARCTICA … Read more
Missed shots: Science revisits its 2020 Breakthrough of the Year | Science
When Science crowned the development of effective SARS-CoV-2 vaccines the scientific Breakthrough of the Year in December 2020, it was a moment of celebration. “This breakthrough is a triumph for all of science,” Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp wrote in an editorial. “There will be plenty of time for an exegesis of what went wrong. But for … Read more
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Top news from around the world Credit: NASA Advertisement PANAMA While monitoring vampire bats in Panama, researchers discovered that the bloodthirsty fliers help one another find food by screeching after locating a juicy meal, despite departing their roosts alone. FRENCH POLYNESIA Scientists reconstructed historic Polynesian settlement routes by tracking rare gene variants in DNA from … Read more