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A mathematical equation that explains the behavior of nanofoams

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Space Sunflower May Help Snap Pictures of Planets

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This animation shows the prototype starshade, a giant structure designed to block the glare of stars so...

Amazon Inhales More Carbon than It Emits, NASA Finds

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Old-growth Amazon tree canopy in Tapajós National Forest, Brazil. A new NASA study shows that the living trees...

NASA Releases First Interactive Mosaic of Lunar North Pole

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A new interactive mosaic from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter covers the north pole of the moon from 60...

NASA Orbiter Finds New Gully Channel on Mars

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This pair of before (left) and after (right) images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera...

NASA Historic Earth Images Still Hold Research Value

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This Seasat synthetic aperture radar image from Aug. 27, 1978, shows the Massachusetts coast from Nantucket Island in the...

Bright Future for Protein Nanoprobes: Berkeley Lab Researchers Discover New Rules for Single-Particle Imaging with Light-Emitting Nanocrystals

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Researchers at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry created upconverting nanoparticles (UCNPs) from nanocrystals of sodium yttrium fluoride (...

Antimony nanocrystals for batteries

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TEM image (false coloured) of monodisperse antimony nanocrystals.