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ASTROBIOLOGY

First amino acid on a comet found An analysis of comet dust collected by NASA’s Stardust probe confirms that some of life’s building blocks landed on the young Earth from space

SPACE

Failure to launch: abandoned NASA projects In the face of budgetary and technical woes, the space agency may abandon the development of its Ares rockets. We look back at other big projects that never saw the light of day

TECH

‘Infectious people’ spread memes across the web Some people are more “infectious” than others when it comes to spreading information online. The finding has helped develop…

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