What’s hot in science and engineering? Research news for the day of March 7, 2022

Mon, 07 Mar 2022
Cyanide gas and the chemistry of evolving life

Cyanide could have enabled metabolic reactions, creating carbon-based compounds

Billions of years ago, cyanide, a fast-acting poison known for its ability to extinguish life, may have caused the chemical reactions that enabled life as we know it.

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Mon, 07 Mar 2022
Astronomers find second known Earth Trojan asteroid

Newly discovered 2020 XL5 dwarfs other known Earth Trojan asteroid

An international team of astronomers observed 2020 XL5 and confirmed it is an Earth Trojan asteroid orbiting the sun along the same path as Earth. 2020 XL5 is the second, and larger, Earth …