17+ hour, 52+ min ago   (919+ words) Doctoral student Linda Losurdo makes cosmic dust in her University of Sydney lab as a tool to understand the origins of life. The cosmic dust in a lab consists of a mix of gases that glow different colors when excited…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (766+ words) Extracted sulphur on Mount Ijen in Indonesia. Sulfur is a key ingredient for life. Molecular clouds, such as the Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud seen here, act as stellar nurseries. A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur (seen in this illustration) was discovered in…...