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NASA's Juno Successfully Completes Jupiter Flyby

NASA's Juno mission successfully executed its first of 36 orbital flybys of Jupiter on August 27. The time of closest approach with the gas-giant world was 6:44 a.m. PDT (9:44 a.m. EDT, 13:44 UTC) when Juno passed about 2,600 miles (4,200 kilometers)...

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A Surprising Blazar Connection Revealed

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Venus-like Exoplanet Might Have Oxygen Atmosphere, But Not Life

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Kepler Watches Stellar Dancers in the Pleiades Cluster

This image shows the Pleiades cluster of stars as seen through the eyes of WISE, or NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey...

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NASA Climate Modeling Suggests Venus May Have Been Habitable

Observations suggest Venus may have had water oceans in its distant past. A land-ocean pattern like that above...

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Let's roll: Material for polymer solar cells may lend itself to large-area processing: 'Sweet spot' for mass-producing polymer solar cells may be far larger than dictated by the conventional wisdom

A demonstration solar park based on polymer solar cells at the Technical University of Denmark in Roskilde, Denmark.

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Seeing the invisible: Visible light superlens made from nanobeads: New solid 3-D superlenses extends magnification x5 to reveal new detail

Fig.1 (a) Conceptual drawing of nanoparticle-based metamaterial solid immersion lens (mSIL) (b) Lab made mSIL using titanium dioxide...

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Seeing the invisible: Visible light superlens made from nanobeads: New solid 3-D superlenses extends magnification x5 to reveal new detail

A paper in Science Advances (12 August) provides proof of a new concept, using new solid 3D superlenses to break through the scale of things previously visible through a microscope.

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