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The Solar System chose fire over ice from the very beginning

Ancient iron meteorites reveal that some of the Solar System’s first solid bodies were built mostly from tiny heat-forged rock beads called chondrules, while water-rich dust was largely excluded. The finding pushes this selective planet-building process back to within the Solar System’s first million years.

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The LHC just ruled out another hiding place for quantum black holes

Physicists searching through Large Hadron Collider data found no evidence that the machine has been producing microscopic quantum black holes, but the result sharply narrows where such exotic physics…

  • Physicists at UC Santa Barbara expanded search for microscopic black holes at LHC.
  • Explored novel method to discover rare and unknown particles.
  • Ruled out hiding places for quantum black holes.

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