Forging gold from dying stars

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5/12/19 The search for new geologic sources of lithium could power a clean future Futuristic clean-energy visions of electric vehicles are driving the hunt for lithium. Read More Dying stars called collapsars may forge much of the universe’s gold Spinning stars that collapse into black holes could help explain the origins of heavy elements such as gold and silver. Read More War wrecked an African ecosystem. Ecologists are trying to restore it Bringing back big predators to Gorongosa, once a wildlife paradise in Mozambique, is just one piece of the puzzle in undoing the damage there.  Read More Medical student evaluations appear riddled with racial and gender biases Women and minorities are more frequently described by personality in medical student evaluations, but men are described by their skills, a study says. Read More A gut bacteria transplant may not help you lose weight A small study finds that transplanting gut microbes from a lean person into obese people didn’t lead to weight loss, as hoped. Read More What a nearby kilonova would look like Physicists imagined what we’d see in the sky if two neutron stars collided just 1,000 light-years from Earth. Read More 1 million species are under threat. Here are 5 ways we speed up extinctions Thanks to human activities, the rate of global species extinctions is tens to hundreds of times faster than the average extinction rate was over the last 10 million years. Read More An ancient pouch reveals the hallucinogen stash of an Andes shaman South American shamans in the Andes Mountains carried mind-altering ingredients 1,000 years ago, a study finds. Read More A tiny mystery dinosaur from New Mexico is officially T. rex’s cousin A newly identified dinosaur species called Suskityrannus hazelae fills a gap in tyrannosaur lineage.  Read More LIGO is on the lookout for these 8 sources of gravitational waves Gravitational wave hunters are on a cosmic scavenger hunt. Here’s what they’re hoping to find.  Read More Privacy policy  |  Update Profile  | Manage Subscriptions  |   Unsubscribe This email was sent by: Society for Science & the Public 1719 N Street NW Washington, DC, 20036, US