Science
The Birth of a Giant Planet?
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have obtained what is likely the first direct observation of a forming planet still embedded in a thick disc of gas and dust. If confirmed, this discovery will greatly improve our understanding of how planets form and allow astronomers to test the current theories against an observable target.
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Private US Group Plans Mars Fly-by in 2018
Plans are underway for the first manned mission to Mars -- just five years from now.
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NASA's NuSTAR Helps Solve Riddle of Black Hole Spin
This artist's concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our sun. Supermassive black holes are enormously dense objects buried at the hearts of galaxies.
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Fermi's Motion Produces a Study in Spirograph
This image compresses the Vela movie sequence into a single snapshot by merging pie-slice sections from eight individual frames.
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Rice builds nanotube photodetector: Project with Sandia National Laboratories leads to promising optoelectronic device
This illustration shows an array of parallel carbon nanotubes 300 micrometers long that are attached to electrodes and display unique qualities as a photodetector.
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Changing Shape Makes Chemotherapy Drugs Better at Targeting Cancer Cells: Researchers at UC Santa Barbara find that making anti-cancer drug particles rod-shaped significantly increases their ability to target and inhibit breast cancer cells
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Home-Made Traffic Nanopaints Used in Longest Iranian Tunnel
The municipality of Tehran used traffic nanopaints produced by Pishgaman Fanavari Asia Company on the surface of the passages in Niyayesh Tunnel, the longest tunnel in Iran.
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Connecting the (quantum) dots: New spin technique moves researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Delft University of Technology closer to creating the first viable high-speed quantum computer
This graphic displays spin qubits within a nanowire.
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NASA and JPL Contribute to European Jupiter Mission
The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission, JUICE (Artist impression )
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Human Rights
Fostering a More Humane World: The 28th Eurasian Economic Summi
Conscience, Hope, and Action: Keys to Global Peace and Sustainability
Ringing FOWPAL’s Peace Bell for the World:Nobel Peace Prize Laureates’ Visions and Actions
Protecting the World’s Cultural Diversity for a Sustainable Future
Puppet Show I International Friendship Day 2020