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Use of Rover Arm Expected to Resume in a Few Days

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This March 4, 2015, image from the Navcam on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the position in which the rover held its arm for several days after a transient short circuit triggered onboard fault-protection programming to halt arm activities on Feb. 27.

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NASA Spacecraft Becomes First to Orbit a Dwarf Planet

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The slim crescent of Ceres smiles back as the dwarf planet awaits the arrival of an emissary from Earth.

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NRL Astrophysicist Explores Star Formation in Orion’s Belt

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NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes have teamed up to expose the chaos that baby stars are creating 1,500 light-years away in a cosmic cloud called the Orion nebula.

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Medical nanoparticles: Local treatment of lung cancer

Nanoparticles are extremely small particles that can be modified for a variety of uses in the medical field. For example, nanoparticles can be engineered to be able to transport medicines specifically to the disease site while not interfering with healthy body parts.

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Tumor tissue in the lung

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New research could lead to more efficient electrical energy storage

Lawrence Livermore researchers have identified electrical charge-induced changes in the structure and bonding of graphitic carbon electrodes that may one day affect the way energy is stored.

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Lawrence Livermore research has opened a new window toward more efficient electrochemical energy storage systems.

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Nanosorbents Increase Extraction, Recycling of Silver from Aqueous Solutions

Iranian Researchers from University of Tehran produced a new type of nanosorbent with the capability of increasing the extraction of silver from mines.

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Heightened Efficiency in Purification of Wastewater Using Nanomembranes

Iranian researchers from Amirkabir University of Technology produced a nanomembrane which can purify industrial wastewater and polluted water with over 90% efficiency.

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Pens filled with high-tech inks for do-it-yourself sensors

A new simple tool developed by nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego, is opening the door to an era when anyone will be able to build sensors, anywhere, including physicians in the clinic, patients in their home and soldiers in the field. The team from the University of California, San Diego, developed high-tech bio-inks that react with several chemicals, including glucose. They filled off-the-shelf ballpoint pens with the inks and were able to draw sensors to measure glucose directly on the skin and sensors to measure pollution on leaves.

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Researchers drew sensors capable of detecting pollutants on a leaf.

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Looking Deeply into the Universe in 3D

MUSE goes beyond Hubble

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Astronomers find newborn stars at the edge of the Galaxy

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Negative WISE W1 image of the newly found cluster Camargo 438. The cluster is about 16,000 light years away, so the image is about 24 light years across. The black dots in the image are individual stars.

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