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Space.com

The researchers came to this conclusion by modeling the relationship between water in a planet’s mantle and a planet’s recycling of continental land via plate tectonics.

Space.com

In particular, the scientists looked at “boundary sections,” which are marine sediments laid down just before and just after the Chicxulub impact and the mass extinction that ended the era of our planet called the Cretaceous period.

Phys.Org

Clauser, 79, was awarded his prize for a 1972 experiment that helped settle a famous debate about quantum mechanics between Einstein and famed physicist Niels Bohr. Einstein described “a spooky action at a distance” that he thought would eventually be …

CNN

Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have won the Nobel Prize for physics for their landmark achievements in quantum mechanics – the study of the behavior of particles and atoms – the organizing committee announced in Stockholm on Tuesday.

CNET

The Indian Space Research Organization says its Mangalyaan spacecraft has run out of fuel and is “non-recoverable.” Monisha Ravisetti headshot. Monisha …

CNET

On Sept. 24, 2014, the Indian Space Research Organization made history. A year earlier, the country’s premier space agency blasted a little spacecraft toward Mars, hoping to punch the boxy probe into the red planet’s orbit and hover it alongside NASA’s …

CNN

At first glance, a new image captured by a telescope in Chile looks like a dazzling comet streaking across the night sky, followed by a long, glowing tail. Instead, it’s the debris plume created when NASA’s DART spacecraft crashed into the asteroid …

Scientific American

Pääbo, a Swedish geneticist and director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, was honored for his groundbreaking research on sequencing the genome of the Neandertals, an extinct relative of humans, and discovering …

Scientific American

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in equal parts to Alain Aspect of the University of Paris–Saclay, John F. Clauser of J. F. Clauser & Associates and Anton Zeilinger of the University of Vienna for their pathfinding work in quantum …

Phys.Org

New Nobel laureate Anton Zeilinger in front of a famous picture of Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue. This year’s physics Nobel prize was awarded Tuesday to three men for their work on a phenomenon …