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Sweet Mystery of Life, At Last I've Found You
by Illustration: Christoph Niemann BEFORE TRANSLATION "The sugar alcohol series begins with glycerol; however, the 2C homologue, ethylene glycol, is also present and was seen in both meteorites. The...
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Hail Venus! Is There Life Here?
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Wanted: Inventors to Build Space Elevator
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Greetings From Future Camp
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Video: Scan and Mold Yourself at Home with a Budget DIY 3-D Scanner
They've Encased Him In Carbonite Research engineer Andy Barry shows off a plastic model of his face, made with a 3D scanner he designed. Wired Gadget Lab With little more than a laser, a webcam and a...
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The Paper: Carbonaceous meteorites as a source of sugar-related organic compounds for the early Earth. Published in Nature, December 20, 2001. The Author: George Cooper,…
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Space travel is relatively cheap compared with the cost of leaving Earth. The space shuttle, for instance, burns more than half a million gallons of fuel blasting into orbit,…
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On October 7, 2008,shortly before dawn in northern Sudan, a trucker named Omar Fadul el Mula was praying at a remote teahouse in the Nubian Desert when a bright flash lit up the landscape. It was as...
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"What happened to your finger?" Bruce Klein asked after noticing my bandaged digit. Cooking injury, I told him. "Maybe we can sprinkle some nanobots in there and fix it up," Klein replied, and...
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