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NASA-Sponsored 'Disk Detective' Lets Public Search for New Planetary Nurseries

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Herbig-Haro 30 is the prototype of a gas-rich "young stellar object" disk around a star. The dark disk spans 40 billion miles (64 billion kilometers) in this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, cutting the bright nebula in two and blocking the central star from direct view.

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Iranian Researchers Produce Drug Nano Carriers for Liver, Spleen

Iranian researchers used nanoparticles for the production of drug carriers that have high adsorption ability inside the liver and spleen but have low adsorption in other body organs.

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Modified Nanozeolite Boost Efficiency of Nickel Removal from Wastewater

Iranian researchers from Islamic Azad University, Shahreza Branch, increased the efficiency of the removal of nickel (II) toxic ion from aqueous solutions by modifying clinoptilolite nanozeolite.

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Where the Wild Stars Are

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Radiation and winds from massive stars have blown a cavity into the surrounding dust and gas, creating the Trifid nebula, as seen here in infrared light by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.

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Rice lab clocks ‘hot’ electrons: Researchers time plasmon-generated electrons moving from nanorods to graphene

Plasmonic nanoparticles developed at Rice University are becoming known for their ability to turn light into heat, but how to use them to generate electricity is not nearly as well understood.

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Rice University researchers determined the amount of time it takes electrons generated by plasmons in a gold nanorod to transfer to a sheet of graphene through spectroscopic analysis of hundreds of particles. The research will help scientists strategize on ways to gather and store electrons from plasmonic particles.

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Researcher Turns Sights on Prostate Cancer, Tissue Engineering, and Blood Vessel Repair

When biology and materials science converge, the results can be new materials that can be used to deliver targeted drugs, repair damaged arteries or rebuild failing tissues, such as the anterior cruciate ligament, the ACL injury that can end sports careers. Penn State bioengineer Jian Yang is developing polymers designed to target all three.

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In this image, polymers are cross linked by both click reactions and condensation reactions and present key-lock clickable surfaces for easy biomolecule conjugation.

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Puzzling Question in Bacterial Immune System Answered

Berkeley Researchers Uncover the Key to Self-Awareness in Genome Editor

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Short DNA sequences known as “PAM” (shown in yellow) enable the bacterial enzyme Cas9 to identify and degrade foreign DNA, as well as induce site-specific genetic changes in animal and plant cells. The presence of PAM is also required to activate the Cas9 enzyme.

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First Weather Map of Brown Dwarf

ESO’s VLT charts surface of nearest brown dwarf

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Iranian Scientists Take New Step towards Intelligent Analogue Processors at Nanometric Scale

Iranian researchers from Sharif University of Technology used memristor nanostrcutures as programmable analogue memories to save parameters of phase calculation methods.

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Smartphone Apps for Diabetes: Do They Really Work?

You can use them to count carbs, log blood sugar, but users say they're no substitute for patient knowledge and a doctor's care.

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