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A Surprising Blazar Connection Revealed

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Venus-like Exoplanet Might Have Oxygen Atmosphere, But Not Life

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Kepler Watches Stellar Dancers in the Pleiades Cluster

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This image shows the Pleiades cluster of stars as seen through the eyes of WISE, or NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey...

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NASA Climate Modeling Suggests Venus May Have Been Habitable

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Observations suggest Venus may have had water oceans in its distant past. A land-ocean pattern like that above...

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Let's roll: Material for polymer solar cells may lend itself to large-area processing: 'Sweet spot' for mass-producing polymer solar cells may be far larger than dictated by the conventional wisdom

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A demonstration solar park based on polymer solar cells at the Technical University of Denmark in Roskilde, Denmark.

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Seeing the invisible: Visible light superlens made from nanobeads: New solid 3-D superlenses extends magnification x5 to reveal new detail

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Fig.1 (a) Conceptual drawing of nanoparticle-based metamaterial solid immersion lens (mSIL) (b) Lab made mSIL using titanium dioxide...

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Seeing the invisible: Visible light superlens made from nanobeads: New solid 3-D superlenses extends magnification x5 to reveal new detail

A paper in Science Advances (12 August) provides proof of a new concept, using new solid 3D superlenses to break through the scale of things previously visible through a microscope.

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Kepler Watches Stellar Dancers in the Pleiades Cluster.

Like cosmic ballet dancers, the stars of the Pleiades cluster are spinning. But these celestial dancers are all twirling at different speeds. Astronomers have long wondered what determines the rotation rates of these stars.

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