Chemists break a century-old rule with a new class of molecules
by Chemistry is littered with rules that, on closer inspection, are alarmingly fragile. Researchers are calling for a century-old rule to be abolished, after creating molecules …
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Neanderthals buried their dead, but in strangely different ways: ScienceAlert
Early Homo sapiens and their Neanderthal cousins began burying their dead around the same time and roughly the same place, some 120,000 years ago. This …
Black holes could be the mysterious force expanding the universe: ScienceAlert
From the expiration of clocks to the death of stars, everything seems destined to eventually come to a standstill. But there is one very, very …
Saturn’s moon Titan may have a crust of 10 kilometers thick methane ice – could there be life underneath?
Scientists have discovered that the icy shell of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, could have an isolated, six-mile-thick (9.7-kilometer-thick) layer of methane ice beneath its surface. …
Common plastic chemicals can wreak havoc on worms’ sex cells: ScienceAlert
A chemical long used in soft, flexible plastics such as PVC may damage the sex cells of some animals and possibly even humans, a new …
NASA’s Perseverance rover unexpectedly finds green spots on Mars
NASAs Perseverance robber is approaching four years of activity on the surface of Mars – and all the while the rover has been exploring ancient …