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The Craters that Made Us
4+ hour, 10+ min ago (221+ words) How does something come from nothing? It is perhaps the most profound question in all of science and one we still cannot fully answer. How did a barren, lifeless planet transform itself, over billions of years, into a world teeming…...
To Study the Moon's Ancient Ice, We First Have to Pollute It
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (237+ words) The authors developed a model that would track how methane would migrate from the landing site of a lander, such as the Argonaut, ESA's workhorse lunar lander, planned for a 2030 launch in support of the Artemis program. They found that,…...
Gravitional Wave Detectors Are Affected Daylight Savings Time
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (208+ words) The paper, entitled "Can LIGO Detect Daylight Savings Time" is one of the best papers ever at getting to the point. Its first sentence is "Yes, it can." Simple enough of an answer - but why? Daylight savings time is a…...