Ryugu asteroid sample contains all five key components of DNA and RNA: the building blocks of all living things
Scientists have discovered that a sample of the Ryugu asteroid collected by Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft contains the…
Origin of strange metallicity in a d-orbital kagome metal
In quantum materials, Coulomb interactions can cause two types of effects. In the first, phases with spontaneously broken…
Journal of Medical Internet Research
Introduction Mental health problems among workers pose a critical challenge with far-reaching implications for the global economy. According…
Earth’s first mass extinction may have been far worse than believed
Fossils of the first sea creatures, long assumed to have vanished before a major mass extinction about 550…
Prehistoric plant produces water that looks like it came from space
Water drawn through the hollow stem of a living Equisetum plant, horsetail, has registered the most extreme oxygen…
Help us shape the Guardian Climate Forum 2026 | Environment
The climate crisis is one of the defining challenges of our age. But it is also a story…
SpaceX launches 10,000th active Starlink satellite in low Earth orbit
Almost seven years after starting to build out its broadband constellation in low Earth orbit, SpaceX now has…
Sir Anthony Leggett obituary | Physics
The launch in the 1950s of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, played an unexpected but important role…
DNA’s Building Blocks May Have Arrived from Space, Asteroid Ryugu Samples Suggest
Samples returned by JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 mission from the C-type asteroid (162173) Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases —…
Europe’s disappearing birds are a symptom of a broken food and farming system
Bird populations in North America have dropped by 15 per cent in the last 40 years, according to…
Was Life Seeded from Space? ‘Complete Set’ of DNA Ingredients Discovered on Asteroid
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XRISM spacecraft watches as monster black hole awakens to fire cosmic bullets into starburst galaxy
The joint NASA and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission XRISM has spotted a monster black hole awakening…