Science

MESSENGER Finds New Evidence for Water Ice at Mercury's Poles, says NASA

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Permanently Shadowed Polar Craters
Shown in red...

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Even Brown Dwarfs May Grow Rocky Planets

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Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have for the first time found that the outer region...

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Hubble Spots a Peculiar Compact Blue Dwarf Galaxy

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Origami Electronics at Printed Electronics USA: Leading designers of printed electronics collaborate on printed electronic demonstration give-a-way

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The image above shows one side of the device

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Electrically spun fabric offers dual defense against pregnancy, HIV

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Fibers stick to a hard surface (top) and then can be removed to create a hollow ring (bottom left). Bottom right shows a closeup of the...

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NASA Researchers Discover Ancient Microbes in Antarctic Lake

In one of the most remote lakes of Antarctica, nearly 65 feet beneath the icy surface, scientists from NASA, the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno, Nev., the University of Illinois at Chicago, and nine other institutions, have uncovered a...

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A Multi-Wavelength View of Radio Galaxy Hercules A

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Spectacular jets powered by the gravitational energy of a super massive black hole in the core...

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Ice Sheet Loss at Both Poles Increasing, Study Finds

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The midnight sun casts a golden glow on an iceberg and its reflection in Disko Bay, Greenland. Much of...

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