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Garnet had never been confirmed in a Martian meteorite until researchers examining NWA 8171 at the Royal Ontario Museum found andradite inside a fragment smaller than one millimetre. Some surrounding minerals carry Martian chemistry, but scientists cannot yet tell whether it records an unknown magma, ancient fluid alteration, metamorphism—or debris from an asteroid that struck Mars.
Bacteria at a plant in Grangemouth eat the leftovers of Scotland's whisky industry — almost 750,000 tons of spent barley and two billion liters of pot ale a year — and excrete acetone, ethanol and butanol, with the butanol close enough to gasoline to burn in an unmodified engine
A 15-year-old roloway monkey at Chester Zoo had a golf-ball-sized mass in one foot, the team that removed it could find no previous example of the procedure in her species, and she kept every toe but one and gave birth to her third daughter months later
Venus has no oceans or water rain and far less surface erosion than Earth, so its rift valleys preserve clues our planet quickly erases. Simulations show that broad, steep shoulders belong to young, rapidly widening rifts—and Ganis, Dali and Devana Chasmata still carry that signature, suggesting parts of Venus may be tearing open today.
