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Jurassic worlds might be easier to spot than modern Earth

Astronomy
Cornell Chronicle
Orange tube-like machine covered with lice
Icefin/NASA PSTAR RISE UP/Schmidt/Lawrence The Icefin underwater vehicle has sonar, chemical and biological sensors that help researchers characterize sub-ice environments.

Underwater robot updates understanding of ice shelf crevasses

Astronomy
Cornell Chronicle
A field of stars in the background and in the foreground a colorful cliff-shaped mass of cosmic gases.
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI The paper advances understanding of life in the context of other complex evolving systems. The image shows the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

Nature’s missing evolutionary law identified

Astronomy
A&S Communications
A pink-tinged crescent edge of a planet with a thin blue layer of atmosphere framed against the black emptiness of space
NASA, ESA, CSA, and R. Crawford/Provided Artist’s rendering of WASP-17 b.

Webb detects quartz crystals in clouds of hot gas giant

Exoplanets
Cornell Chronicle