West Virginia is a Heavy Favorite Over Utah in ESPN BPI Prediction
Saturday evening, the West Virginia Mountaineers will take on the Utah Utes for the seventh time in program history and will be looking for their first win in t ...
Briny Traces in NASA’s Asteroid Sample Hold Clues to the Chemistry of Life
The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...
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Asteroid Bennu holds secrets of water evaporated billions of years ago, study shocks
Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.
Asteroid Bennu Samples Contain Building Blocks of Life
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
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Why is the Great Salt Lake shrinking?
In a nutshell The Great Salt Lake reached its lowest level in 170+ years primarily due to reduced river flow, which caused three times more water loss than any other factor. However, increased ...
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Scientists Discover Traces of Salt Water and Building Blocks of Life in NASA’s Samples From the Asteroid Bennu
When that water evaporated, it likely left behind salty, brine-like residues rich in life-supporting elements, such as phosphorus. If those components then rained down on early Earth via meteorite ...
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Asteroid Samples Contain Building Blocks of Life
where it parachuted through the atmosphere and was collected after it landed in the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range southwest of Salt Lake City. From the desert, the samples ...
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NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...
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Are we all aliens? NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...
AZ Central20d
Forest thinning aims to curb catastrophic wildfires in Arizona. It also could stretch water supplies
Once the fire crested the rim, having covered some 15,000 acres, it would die against a broader firebreak that Salt River Project ... south of Stoneman Lake; Chino Valley; the area north of ...