Science

Off-the-shelf materials lead to self-healing polymers

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A close-up of an elastic polymer that was cut in two and healed overnight.

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Kepler Finds a Very Wobbly Planet

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This illustration shows the unusual orbit of planet Kepler-413b around a close pair of orange and red...

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NASA's SDO Sees Lunar Transit

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A rainbow of lunar transits as seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. The...

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NASA-Sponsored 'Disk Detective' Lets Public Search for New Planetary Nurseries

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Herbig-Haro 30 is the prototype of a gas-rich "young stellar object" disk around a star. The dark disk spans 40 billion...

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Iranian Researchers Produce Drug Nano Carriers for Liver, Spleen

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Modified Nanozeolite Boost Efficiency of Nickel Removal from Wastewater

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Where the Wild Stars Are

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Radiation and winds from massive stars have blown a cavity into the surrounding dust and gas, creating the Trifid nebula...

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Rice lab clocks ‘hot’ electrons: Researchers time plasmon-generated electrons moving from nanorods to graphene

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Rice University researchers determined the amount of time it takes electrons generated by plasmons in a gold nanorod to transfer to a sheet...

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