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For The First Time, Scientists Say They've Built a Synthetic Cell From Scratch - ScienceAlert
Scientists from the University of Minnesota say they have created the first-ever synthetic cell built entirely from scratch, and seen it go through an entire ‘life’ cycle – including reproduction.
In 2024, engineers rescued Voyager 1 after it spent months transmitting gibberish, remotely rewriting and relocating pieces of 46-year-old code around a failed memory chip from more than 24 billion kilometres away. - Space Daily
In late 2023, one of the most distant machines humanity has ever built started talking nonsense. Voyager 1, more than 24 billion kilometres from Earth, began sending back a meaningless, repeating pattern instead of data, and it kept doing so for about five mo…
In 2024, researchers reported something that should have been impossible: metallic nodules scattered across the deep Pacific seafloor appeared to be producing oxygen in total darkness, creating “dark oxygen” without a single ray of sunlight. - Space Daily
The deep ocean is usually treated as the end of the oxygen story. Sunlit organisms near the surface make oxygen through photosynthesis, currents carry some of it downward, and life on the abyssal seafloor slowly consumes it. That is why a 2024 Nature Geoscien…
Earliest Americans specialized in megafauna hunting from Alaska to South America, analysis of 50 sites reveals - Phys.org
New research led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks archaeologist reveals that the earliest Native Americans had highly specialized diets, primarily hunting the largest animals on the landscape, and they targeted these megafauna consistently from Alaska to S…
Aerosols and hydrocarbons in the atmosphere of a white dwarf planet - Nature
Transmission spectroscopy of the planet WD 1856 b, orbiting a white dwarf, with the James Webb Space Telescope reveals the presence of hydrocarbons and aerosols in its atmosphere, providing insight into its mass and heating history.
Hidden for decades, hospital superbug built resistance in waves, peaking in the mid‑2000s - Phys.org
Decades-old hospital samples have helped University of East Anglia (UEA) researchers uncover how a deadly antibiotic-resistant “superbug” quietly tightened its grip across the globe. It lurked in hospital corridors for decades, largely unnoticed by the wider …