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NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Arrives at Martian Mountain

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First Map of Rosetta's Comet

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This view of the "belly" and part of the "head" of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko indicates several morphologically...

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How skin falls apart: The pathology of autoimmune skin disease is revealed at the nanoscale

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UB researchers have pinpointed important changes in cellular behavior that occur in Pemphigus Vulgaris, the rare, blistering skin disease...

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Molecular self-assembly controls graphene-edge configuration

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Graphene nanoribbons are fabricated by molecular assembly on a Cu(111) substrate. On this surface system, GNRs on grow in six azimuthal...

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This Star Cluster Is Not What It Seems

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This new image from the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in northern Chile shows a vast collection of stars, the...

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Rice chemist wins rare NSF Special Creativity Award: Grant extension will bolster Zubarev's effort to produce gold nanorods

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Because gold nanorods are longer than they are wide, 3-D nanorod supercrystals have "anisotropic" properties, which means they have a...

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Light detector to revolutionise night vision technology

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Scientists Find Evidence of 'Diving' Tectonic Plates on Europa

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Scientists have found evidence of plate tectonics on Jupiter's moon Europa. This conceptual illustration of...

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