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Over 20 years ago, then Indonesian president Megawati Soekarnoputri banned the export of sea sand from her archipelago nation. The ban was in response to the widespread environmental and economic damage it was causing. Unchecked sea sand...
Chirality refers to objects that cannot be superimposed onto their mirror images through any combination of rotations or translations, much like the distinct left and right hands of a human. In chiral crystals, the spatial arrangement...

NASA is seeking a faster, cheaper way to bring Mars samples to Earth

NASA's plan to bring samples from Mars back to Earth is on hold until there's a faster, cheaper way, space agency officials said Monday. Retrieving...

Oldest known samples of brittle stars from supercontinent Gondwana discovered in South Africa

A small team of paleontologists with members from Rhodes University, in South Africa, the National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg City, and the University...

NASA’s Perseverance rover shows off collection of Mars samples

Even space robots know what "pics or it didn't happen" means: NASA's Perseverance Mars rover provided a panorama of its recently completed sample depot—a...

Perseverance takes a selfie to show off some of its samples

One of the main jobs for the Perseverance Mars rover past few weeks has been collecting carefully selected samples of Mars rock and soil....

Asteroid samples continue to shed light on solar system history

Nearly two years after Japanese mission Hayabusa2 returned to Earth, samples from asteroid Ryugu continue to reveal valuable information about the history of the...

NASA’s Perseverance rover collects two samples of Martian regolith

NASA's Perseverance rover snagged two new samples from the Martian surface on Dec. 2 and 6. But unlike the 15 rock cores collected to...

Chang’E-5 samples reveal how young volcanism occurred on the moon

A new study led by Prof. Chen Yi from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS) provides an...

Asteroid samples contain ‘clues to origin of life’: Japan scientists

Asteroid dust collected by a Japanese space probe contains organic material that shows some of the building blocks of life on Earth may have...

Eclogite samples found in China push modern-type subduction events back to 2.5 billion years ago

A team of researchers from China University of Geosciences, has concluded that eclogite samples found at the northern Central Orogenic Belt within the North...

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