Crystal Comets

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  Feb 13, 2015 The “dusty snowball” theory of comets needs attention, since there are crystals that need high temperatures to form in the matrix of at least two. Recently, the composition of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/C-G) was discussed in the scientific press. It is only in the last few months…

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Bacterial Batteries?

  Feb 05, 2015 More electric biology. A previous Picture of the Day described the way that some single-celled organisms make use of charge exchange in order to drive their flagella. Rather than the conversion of ATP, they move protons along special cellular structures, converting that flow of electric charge into…

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