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New Microscopy Unveils E. Coli Membrane Dynamics
Light and electron microscopy have distinct limitations. Light microscopy makes it difficult to resolve smaller and smaller features, and electron ...
NASA's asteroid sample reveals key chemistry that could lead to life
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Scientists Discover Traces of Salt Water and Building Blocks of Life in NASA’s Samples From the Asteroid Bennu
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
Missouri racing to speed up testing for bird flu
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Dust from asteroid Bennu shows: Building blocks of life and possible habitats were widespread in our solar system
With the OSIRIS-REx space probe, the NASA space agency succeeded in collecting some material from the surface of asteroid ...
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Minerals Crucial to Life Found in Asteroid Samples From Space
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...