A SETI Institute team has NASA funding to test whether Raman spectroscopy works from 30 to 50 km away, roughly 250 times farther than its own best demonstration.
Publishers:phys.org
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A Science Advances paper says five ordinary human-associated microbes could stay alive in shadowed south-pole terrain. The expensive consequence is the baseline contamination survey it implies.
Publishers:nasa.gov · phys.org · scientificamerican.com
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A US-led team reads up to 80% X-ray polarization from magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408 as QED vacuum birefringence. An Italian-led group says alternative explanations are not excluded.
Publishers:physicsworld.com
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A machine-learning reconstruction finds severe, persistent groundwater losses across roughly 23% of Brazil, in the basins that supply much of the world's soy, sugarcane, coffee and oranges.
Publishers:livescience.com
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