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Optics, nanotechnology combined to create low-cost sensor for gases

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Camera chip provides superfine 3-D resolution: New imaging technology fits on a tiny chip and, from a distance, can form a high-resolution 3-dimensional image of an object on the scale of micrometers

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The micrometer-resolution image, taken from roughly half a meter (1.5 feet) away, shows the height of a US penny at various points.

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Team Returning Orbiter to Duty After Computer Swap

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Artist concept of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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Frustrated magnets -- new experiment reveals clues to their discontent

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Graduate student Max Hirschberger lowers the assembled experimental setup into a high-field magnet system, capable of creating fields as...

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Frustrated magnets -- new experiment reveals clues to their discontent

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Graduate student Max Hirschberger lowers the assembled experimental setup into a high-field magnet system, capable of creating fields as...

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Hubble and Chandra Discover Dark Matter Is Not as Sticky as Once Thought

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This collage shows images of six different galaxy clusters taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope...

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Prototype 'nanoneedles' generate new blood vessels in mice: Scientists have developed tiny 'nanoneedles' that have successfully prompted parts of the body to generate new blood vessels, in a trial in mice

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The image shows a single human cell (brown) on a bed of nanoneedles (blue).

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Rover Amnesia Event Follows Latest Memory Reformatting

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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has extended its robotic arm for studying a light-toned rock target called "...

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