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Researchers found presolar grains in the Kapoeta meteorite, a piece of the surface of asteroid Vesta. (Credit: Ogliore Lab)
6.22.22

Ancient micrometeoroids carried specks of stardust, water to asteroid 4 Vesta

The surface of asteroid Ryugu from an altitude of 6 km. (Image: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu, AIST)
6.9.22

Asteroid samples offer chance to study chemically pristine solar system materials

6.1.22

Taste of Science returns to in-person outreach
Drone footage shows the color variation of many different microbial systems at work within a wastewater treatment plant aeration pond system. (Image: Shutterstock)
5.16.22

When more complex is simpler

First image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. (Photo: EHT Collaboration)
5.12.22

Astronomers unveil first image of Milky Way’s black hole

Kater Murch
5.4.22

Neon ice shows promise as new qubit platform

5.2.22

Promotions

Quantum Refrigerator
4.28.22

First steps toward building a topological quantum computer

4.27.22

Novel particle detector used to study alternate path to carbon creation in stars

4.25.22

Dev to study mysterious particles at Fermilab

4.25.22

Unique samples or just super weird?
4.22.22

The power of quantum disorder

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