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Cosmochemistry and Astrobiology

How the Earth Got its Water

Water has been identified in the most uncanny of places – as vapors in the nebulae that roam our Milky Way Galaxy, as ices...

Cosmochemistry and Astrobiology

INTRODUCTION: We are “the stuff of stars,” as connected to the cosmos as the Galaxy that spawned us. This stuff includes the light elements of...

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Contest Prize Winner: Fast Radio Bursts: A Decades Long Puzzle

Abigail Serrano – Andover High School, MA, USA The First Burst When the first fast radio burst, or FRB, was found...

Contest Prize Winner: The Potential of Time Travel Lies in Space

(Monica Tavarez Frias, Saint Patrick School of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) Introduction What if the key to time travel isn’t hidden...

Contest Prize Winner: Artificial Intelligences and Machines (AIs/AMs)as Catalysts for First Contact with Alien Societies

(Martina Guja Zagonel – Liceo Scientifico Bonaventura Cavalieri, Verbania, Italy) Introduction With recent advancements and ongoing progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI),...

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