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Almahata Sitta: A meteorite suggests a new way to form amino acids

News: Exogenous Life    December 19, 2010
Asteroid collision, NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture….credit: NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt Finding amino acids, the building blocks of life, in meteorites is not new. Finding them in a meteorite that is a fragment of an asteroid collision, a piece formed at more than two thousand degrees Fahrenheit (1100 degrees Celsius) – now that makes astrobiologists [...]
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Possible frictionless nanomachinery using the Casimir effect

Impact: Nanotechnology    December 9, 2009
The notion of operating machinery without friction is, of course, fiction – except, possibly, in the realm of quantum field theory. When it comes to the very very small (nanoscale) and the way materials behave at the quantum level, the rulebook we use at human scale has to be re-written. Think about it, what would [...]
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