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Venus Life Finding could be based on a data error

[ad_1] Processing error In September, a team of scientists made a big splash by claiming that they found possible signs of life in the atmosphere of Venus. They said they found traces of phosphine, a colorless gas that results from the decomposition of organic matter here on Earth. But a …

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Scientists produce man-made diamonds at room temperature

[ad_1] Xingshuo Huang is a PhD. candidate at the Research School of Physics of the Australian National University. In this image, he is holding the anvil used to create synthetic diamonds at room temperature. (Image: Jamie Kidston / ANU). In nature, diamonds were formed billions of years ago in the …

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A “new kind of electrons”

[ad_1] Why do some materials emit electrons with a very specific energy? This has been a mystery for decades: scientists at TU Wien have found an answer. It’s something quite common in physics: electrons leave a certain material, fly away, and then they are measured. Some materials emit electrons when …

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