Science

Forecast for Titan: Wild Weather Could be Ahead

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Ligeia Mare, shown in here in data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, is the second largest known body of liquid...

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Whirlpools on the Nanoscale Could Multiply Magnetic Memory: At the Advanced Light Source, Berkeley Lab scientists join an international team to control spin orientation in magnetic nanodisks

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The electron spins in a magnetic vortex all point in parallel, either clockwise or counterclockwise. Spins in the crowded core of the...

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Researchers Stitch Defects into the World’s Thinnest Semiconductor

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A false-color electron microscopy image showing the star-shaped crystals in monolayers of two-dimensional semiconducting molybdenum...

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Mega-galaxy is Missing Link in History of Cosmos

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The image at right shows a close-up of the colliding galaxies in red and green. The...

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Moonrise over Earth, by Rosetta

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Moonrise over Earth

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NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Drills Second Rock Target

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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity drilled into this rock target, "Cumberland," during the 279th Martian day, or sol, of the...

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Competition in the Quantum World

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The physicists engineer a classical environment, which generates dissipative dynamics, leading to fragile long-range quantum mechanical...

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Rice unveils method for tailoring optical processors: Arranging nanoparticles in geometric patterns allows for control of light with light

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By arranging optically tuned gold discs in a closely spaced pattern, Rice University scientists created intense electrical fields and...

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