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What a Martian meteorite can teach us about Earth's origins

Posted: 12 Jul 2022 04:05 PM PDT

What do Mars and Iceland have in common? These days, not so much. But more than 4.5 billion years ago, it's possible the Red Planet had a crust comparable to Iceland today. This discovery, hidden in the oldest martian fragments found on Earth, could provide information about our planet that was lost over billions of years of geological movement and could help explain why the Earth developed into a planet that sustains a broad diversity of life and Mars did not.

NASA Reveals Webb Telescope's first images of unseen universe

Posted: 12 Jul 2022 08:48 AM PDT

NASA has revealed groundbreaking new views of the cosmos from the James Webb Space Telescope. The images include the deepest infrared view of our universe that has ever been taken.

During sleep the brain's reaction to sound remains strong, but one critical feature of conscious attention disappears

Posted: 12 Jul 2022 07:26 AM PDT

New research may provide a key to a scientific enigma: How does the awake brain transform sensory input into a conscious experience? The groundbreaking study relied on data collected from electrodes implanted, for medical purposes, deep in the human brain. The information was utilized to examine differences between the response of the cerebral cortex to sounds in sleep vs. wakefulness, at a resolution of single neurons.