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New Technique To Detect Dark Matter Using Atomic Clocks And Lasers

A team of international researchers has developed an innovative approach to uncover the secrets of dark matter in the cosmos. University of Queensland PhD student Ashlee Caddell co-led a study in collaboration with Germany’s metrology institute that searched for dark matter using atomic clocks and cavity-stabilized lasers.

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A Mix of Life’s Ingredients Found in Asteroid Bennu Sample

Rock and dust samples brought back from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu contain organic matter, including amino acids and all five DNA and RNA bases, as well as salts that formed early in the history of Bennu’s parent body, according to a pair of studies by international and Australian researchers.

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How Heavy Are Neutron Stars At Birth? We Now Know The Answer

An international team of astrophysicists from China and Australia, led by former Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational-wave Discovery researcher Professor Xingjiang Zhu who is now a Professor at Beijing Normal University has, for the first time, determined how massive neutron stars are when they are born.

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