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NASA’s New AI Just Spotted 7,000 Planet Candidates in a Single Sweep - The Daily Galaxy
A powerful new NASA AI is quietly scanning the skies, and what it’s finding is making scientists pause.
A new three-way single step rearrangement enables precise ring editing - Phys.org
A new three-way bond-breaking and making mechanism makes the synthesis of five-membered rings easier than before.
A year after undermining Bredt's rule, scientists make cage-shaped, double-bonded molecules that defy expectations - Phys.org
Organic chemistry is packed with rules about structure and reactivity, especially when it comes to making and breaking chemical bonds. The rules governing how these bonds, which hold atoms together in molecules, form and the shapes they give molecules are oft…
Ancient Spanish trees reveal Mediterranean storms are intensifying - Phys.org
Ancient pine trees growing in the Iberian mountains of eastern Spain have quietly recorded more than five centuries of Mediterranean weather. Now, by reading the annual growth rings preserved in their wood, scientists have uncovered a striking message: today'…
480,000-year-old ax sharpener is the oldest known elephant bone tool ever discovered in Europe - Live Science
The “very rare” find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a million years ago.
Saturday Citations: A weird, extinct life form; cholesterol hacking; interspecies prosociality of whales - Phys.org
It’s Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on the idea that memories could arise from random fluctuations in entropy rather than reflecting the actual past of the universe—news yo…