From Microchips To Moon Rocks: How The World Depends On Counting Atoms
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Technology Photo credit: Adrian Cansell loading a 100mm silicon wafer into a 200 kV ion implanter. University…
Mars Surface Glass Could Hold Ancient Fossils
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Scientists have found ancient "impact glass" on the surface of Mars, which formed when asteroids struck, a billion or more…
Trace evidences of life could potentially be found in craters on other planets
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Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of a carbonaceous inclusion from Darwin glass. (Credit: Kieren Torres Howard et al./Natu…
Meteorite impacts capture time capsules of the ecosystems they destroy
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Sites like this can be searched for glass beads that reveal the past. rickmach Meteorite impacts can be very destructive. A…