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Talkin’ Science

Glass Beads Offer A Window Into The Moon’s Hidden Depths

An international study featuring scientists from Curtin University’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Space Science and Technology Centre offers new insights into the Moon’s history and provide a better understanding of what lies beneath its cratered surface.

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Greenhouse Gas Emissions May Threaten Our Satellites

Increasing greenhouse gases in our atmosphere may reduce the total number of satellites that can safely orbit the planet, say UK researchers who used computer simulations of the atmosphere to work out the number of satellites that could be maintained sustainably in Earth’s orbit by the year 2100 under different emissions scenarios.

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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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