The strength of gravity is different on every body in the solar system. Whether it’s the crushing weight of Jupiter or the miniscule pull of a small asteroid, this fundamental force of physics still has a major impact on the material those bodies are made up of. A new paper from researchers at the University […]

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In early Earth’s chemical soup, toxic hydrogen cyanide (HCN) was the unlikely hero ingredient. Though a killer to all but a few lifeforms, HCN is at the base of a host of prebiotic chemical reactions. Without it, life may never arisen on our planet. Though it’s just a simple molecule with three atoms, its importance […]

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