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Rosetta’s target comet is becoming active

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Comet develops a coma

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Cascading dunes in a martian crater

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Rabe crater perspective view

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NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Wrapping Up Waypoint Work

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The Mars Hand Lens Imager on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover provided this nighttime view of a hole produced by the rover's...

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Interlayer detector for ion beam milling processes

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New insight into thermoelectric materials may boost green technologies: A U of Miami physicist and his collaborators find remarkable thermoelectric properties for a metal that may impact the search for materials useful in power generation, refrigeration o

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Lithium purple-bronze (LiPB) is a thermoelectric material comprised of aligned conducting, zig-zag chains of molybdenum and oxygen (left...

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Magnetar Formation Mystery Solved?

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Magnetars are the bizarre super-dense remnants of supernova explosions. They are the strongest magnets known in the Universe —...

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West Antarctic Glacier Loss Appears Unstoppable

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Thwaites Glacier.

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Chemotherapy timing is key to success: Nanoparticles that stagger delivery of two drugs knock out aggressive tumors in mice.

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The nanoparticle contains the cancer drug doxorubicin (green spheres) in its core. Erlotinib is embedded in the red outer shell. Attached...

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