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There is definitely water on the surface of the moon

[ad_1] Scientist Casey Honniball and her team measured the wavelengths of sunlight reflected from the lunar surface, discovering a chemical trace that clearly confirms the presence of H2O. The data that led to the discovery were collected by the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) consisting of a special 2.5 …

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John Barrow’s Obituary | Science

[ad_1] Cosmologist John Barrow, who died at the age of 67 from colon and liver cancer, was a renowned popularizer of science. He combined mathematical and physical reasoning to increase our understanding of the very first moments of the universe. It did this by providing elegant mathematical characterizations of inflationary …

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