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GJ 3253: Astronomers Gain New Insight into Magnetic Field of Sun and its Kin

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NASA’s Next Planet Hunter Will Look Closer to Home

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TESS will look at the nearest, brightest stars to find planetary candidates that scientists will observe for years to...

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The Case of the Missing Ceres Craters

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Scientists with NASA's Dawn mission were surprised to find that Ceres has no clear signs of truly giant impact...

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New nontoxic process promises larger ultrathin sheets of 2-D nanomaterials

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A new ORNL study, a new gas exfoliation process that yields a 20 percent increase in surface area per nanosheet of boron nitride.

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New lithium-oxygen battery greatly improves energy efficiency, longevity: New chemistry could overcome key drawbacks of lithium-air batteries

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In a new concept for battery cathodes, nanometer-scale particles made of lithium and oxygen compounds (depicted in red and white) are...

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X Marks the Spot for Milky Way Formation

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Researchers used data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission to highlight the X-shaped...

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NASA Mars Rover Can Choose Laser Targets on Its Own

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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover autonomously selects some targets for the laser and telescopic camera of its ChemCam instrument...

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Ultra-flat circuits will have unique properties: Rice University lab studies 2-D hybrids to see how they differ from common electronics

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Hybrids of two-dimensional materials like the graphene-molybdenum disulfide illustrated here have electronic properties that don't follow...

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