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U.S. Releases Enhanced Shuttle Land Elevation Data

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Elevation data at the highest possible resolution from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission in February 2000...

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NASA Telescopes Find Clear Skies and Water Vapor on Exoplanet

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A Neptune-size planet with a clear atmosphere is shown crossing in front of its star in this artist's depiction.

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Toward optical chips: A promising light source for optoelectronic chips can be tuned to different frequencies

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The MIT researchers deposited triangular layers of molybdenum disulfide on a silicon substrate. At left, regions highlighted in blue...

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Big Results Require Big Ambitions: Three young UCSB faculty receive CAREER awards from the National Science Foundation

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This image depicts a nanoemulsion being used to template sophisticated materials

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NASA Mars Spacecraft Ready for Sept. 21 Orbit Insertion

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This artist concept depicts the process of orbital insertion of NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft...

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Five Things About NASA's ISS-RapidScat

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ISS-RapidScat will have a close-up view of ocean winds from its perch on the International Space Station, as...

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Elusive Quantum Transformations Found Near Absolute Zero: Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University researchers measured the quantum fluctuations behind a novel magnetic material's ultra-cold ferromagnetic phase transition

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Rendering of the near–perfect crystal structure of the yttrium–iron–aluminum compound used in the study. The two–dimensional layers of...

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'Squid skin' metamaterials project yields vivid color display: Rice lab creates RGB color display technology with aluminum nanorods

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Rice researchers tune the color output of each array both by varying the length of the nanorods and by adjusting the length of the spaces...

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