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• Best glimpse ever into icy planetesimals of the early solar system December 19, 2024
  New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in the early solar system and how TNOs evolve when they travel inward into the region of the giant planets between Jupiter and Saturn, […]
• Origins of lunar water and its connection to Earth's early history December 19, 2024
  Scientists have unveiled groundbreaking research on the origins of lunar water, offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system. The pioneering study explores the isotopic signatures of lunar water, revealing a mix of indigenous and cometary sources.
• Need a research hypothesis? Ask AI December 19, 2024
  Engineers have developed AI frameworks to identify evidence-driven hypotheses that could advance biologically inspired materials.
• New evidence exists for hidden water reservoirs and rare magmas on ancient Mars December 19, 2024
  A new study explores how variations in Mars' crustal thickness during its ancient history may have influenced the planet's magmatic evolution and hydrological systems. The research suggests that the thick crust of Mars' southern highlands formed billions of years ago generated granitic magmas and sustained vast underground aquifers, challenging long-held assumptions about the red planet's […]
• Human-like artificial intelligence may face greater blame for moral violations December 18, 2024
  In a new study, participants tended to assign greater blame to artificial intelligences (AIs) involved in real-world moral transgressions when they perceived the AIs as having more human-like minds.
• Getting in sync: Wearables reveal happiest times to sleep December 18, 2024
  Research finds connections between mood and circadian rhythm disruptions in study using Fitbit data from hundreds of medical interns.
• Lost score revives sound of music and voices from centuries past December 18, 2024
  A fragment of 'lost' music found in the pages of Scotland's first full-length printed book is providing clues to what music sounded like five centuries ago. Scholars have been investigating the origins of the musical score -- which contains only 55 notes -- to cast new light on music from pre-Reformation Scotland in the early […]
• Young exoplanet's atmosphere unexpectedly differs from its birthplace December 18, 2024
  Conventional wisdom assumes the ratio of gases in a planet's atmosphere should match the ratio of gases in the natal disk that birthed it. For the first time, researchers compared gases in a still-forming planet's atmosphere to its natal disk. The team found the planet surprisingly was less carbon-rich than the disk.
• Bias in AI amplifies our own biases, researchers show December 18, 2024
  Artificial intelligence (AI) systems tend to take on human biases and amplify them, causing people who use that AI to become more biased themselves, a new study finds.
• Supermassive black holes halt rapid construction in an ancient celestial city December 18, 2024
  Galaxy clusters -- the big cities of the universe -- are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars. However, it is still unclear what has shut down star formation. In a new study, researchers utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to observe an ancestor of galaxy […]