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ALMA Finds Double Star with Weird and Wild Planet-forming Discs

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Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found wildly misaligned planet-forming gas discs...

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FEI adds Phase Plate Technology and Titan Halo TEM to its Structural Biology Product Portfolio: New solutions provide the high-quality imaging and contrast necessary to analyze the 3D structure of molecules and molecular complexes

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Seeing is bead-lieving: Rice University scientists create model 'bead-spring' chains with tunable properties

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DNA linkers serve as bridges between colloidal beads in a new experiment by Rice University scientists to study the physics of "bead-spring...

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Cassini Spacecraft Reveals 101 Geysers and more on Icy Saturn Moon

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This artist's rendering shows a cross-section of the ice shell immediately beneath one of Enceladus' geyser-active fractures,...

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NASA Long-Lived Mars Opportunity Rover Sets Off-World Driving Record

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This natural color view from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows "Lunokhod Crater," which lies south of...

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Mapping dark matter, 4.5 billion light years away

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Galaxy cluster MCS J0416.1–2403, one of six clusters targeted by the Hubble Frontier Fields programme. The blue in this...

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Surface impressions of Rosetta's comet

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Images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko taken on July 14, 2014, by the OSIRIS imaging system aboard the European Space...

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New imaging agent provides better picture of the gut

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