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3 days ago

Fresh claim of making elusive 'hexagonal' diamond is the strongest yet

Chinese researchers have successfully synthesized hexagonal diamond in a laboratory, a material predicted to be over 50% harder than conventional diamond with applications in cutting tools, thermal management, and quantum sensing.
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6 months ago

Experiment sheds light on the origin of life, supporting the existence of a thioester world' before living beings

In 1991, De Duve proposed a hypothesis about the origin of life that did not require any deity: the thioester world, a compound containing carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and sulfur. On that primordial planet, still devoid of life, thioesters would have provided the energy necessary for chemical elements to react and form more complex molecules, such as the first genetic material, RNA.
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