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JASON'S DESTINATION
The myth of Jason and the Argonauts’ quest for the Golden Fleece was
based on an actual voyage to a region near the Black Sea where villagers
used sheepskins to catch stream-borne gold grains, new evidence
suggests. Villages such as the one here still dot the region, and locals
continue to use the sheepskin method.
A. Okrostsvaridz
MINERAL MONIKER Part
of this sample of a meteorite that crashed into Australia 135 years ago
contains the newly christened mineral bridgmanite. The mineral makes up
38 percent of Earth’s volume.
O. Tschauner et al/Science 2014
LIGHT-FETCHING PATTERN
Bumps and pits that encode data on a Blu-ray Disc, seen here in a
false-color microscope image, can be imprinted on solar cells to improve
light absorption, a new study shows.
Jiaxing Huang
Science News
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