The Perseverance rover will explore the Martian Jezero Crater and collect the first rock samples from the Red Planet.
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“Seven minutes of terror”: The Perseverance rover’s descent to Mars
Before the Perseverance rover can begin its exploration of Mars, it must first stick the landing.
Never say never – Seeing the birth of a crystal
The genesis of a crystal was something we have imagined for centuries, and being able to watch it was like living in a dream.
Solar chemicals and fuels in the dark
Conquering cloud and nighttime solar intermittency comes from the phenomenon of persistent photoconductivity observed in materials that contain sub-bandgap trap states.
Understanding consciousness: researchers identify key neural structures
Which structures in the brain activate when your state of consciousness changes?
How does the structure of ice change around impurities?
On the molecular scale, ice is less ordered than you might think, but it turns out that some of that missing order can be recovered
Playing ball with the Haber–Bosch process
Can the Haber–Bosch process be green?
Simulations that reach biological timescales
A new computational technique allows researchers to model biological processes with better accuracy and at a lower computational cost.
Researchers perform chemical reactions in levitating solvent
Using ultrasonic standing waves, researchers levitate droplets of solvent, which can be used for chemical reactions.
First hint of radio emissions collected from an exoplanet
Though weak, researchers have detected what could be the first radio emissions collected from a planet outside our solar system.
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