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 ...

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 ...

A doctoral researcher in Australia has successfully recreated cosmic dust inside a laboratory, offering a new way to study how the chemical foundations of life may have formed long before Earth ...

Space dust provides more than just awe-inspiring pictures like the Pillars of Creation. It can provide the necessary materials to build everything from planets to asteroids. But what it actually looks ...

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 ...

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 ...