Wave field simulation on Mars. The first observation of surface waves on Mars reveals details about the planet’s crust. Kim et al., (2022) Science. Credit: ETH Zurich / Doyeon Kim, Martin van Driel and Christian Boehm Researchers have observed for the first time seismic waves propagating on the surface of a planet other than Earth …
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Two men buried in a medieval cemetery in Ireland suffered from a genetic condition called multiple osteochondromas, which causes benign bone tumors. One of the disease mutations is a new discovery, so this is the first time such insights have been unlocked from ancient genomic data. In 2003, a cemetery was discovered in Ballyhanna, which …
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white dwarf stars are messy eaters, and the crumbs on their faces could reveal the origins of planetary cores. When Cambridge University astronomer Amy Bonsor and her colleagues studied the light spectrum of white dwarfs – the burnt-out remnants of small stars – they noticed flecks of heavier elements on the surfaces of the stars …
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