Science

NASA'S Hubble Space Telescope Finds Dead Stars 'Polluted' With Planet Debris

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Hubble found the building blocks for Earth-sized planets in an unlikely place – the atmospheres of a pair of...

Second and Third Sounding Rockets Launched from the Marshall Islands

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A NASA Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket leaves the launch pad...

Milky Way Black Hole Snacks on Hot Gas

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This artist's concept illustrates the frenzied activity at the core of our Milky Way galaxy. The galactic center hosts a...

Furnace accelerator startup develops anti-fogging technology

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After one hour and 19 minutes, there is no fog on the area of the visor where VitreOx has been applied.

Penn Research Makes Advance in Nanotech Gene Sequencing Technique

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An illustration of a single-stranded DNA homopolymer translocating through a silicon nitride nanopore.

NASA's Fermi, Swift See 'Shockingly Bright' Burst

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The maps in this animation show how the sky looks at gamma-ray energies above 100...

'Going negative' pays for nanotubes: Rice University lab finds possible keys to better nanofibers, films

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Crown ether “cages” trap potassium ions but leave nanotubes with a repellant negative charge in solutions that will be valuable for...

How graphene and friends could harness the Sun’s energy

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