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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Doctoral student Linda Losurdo makes cosmic dust in her University of Sydney lab as a tool to understand the origins of life. - ...

At the University of Sydney, a Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny slice of outer space and used it to make cosmic dust from scratch. Linda Losurdo, a doctoral researcher in materials and plasma ...

Recent scientific findings have upended long-held beliefs about cosmic dust, revealing that it is not composed of miniature rocks as previously thought. This discovery challenges existing assumptions ...

New research has found that amino acids, the building blocks of life, may have traveled to Earth on interstellar dust grains, potentially helping kickstart biology as we know it. In a recent study ...

Here on Earth, dust is a collection of small particles originating from geological sources, such as rocks, as well as other materials like pollen, dirt, bacteria, or pollutants. In space, dust ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PhD candidate Linda Losurdo. (CREDIT: Fiona Wolf/The University of Sydney) At the University of Sydney, a Ph.D. student has ...

Re-creating a piece of the universe in a bottle might sound like science fiction, but it’s exactly what Linda Losurdo did. Losurdo, a doctoral student in materials and plasma physics at the University ...