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Black hole boasts heavyweight jets

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Black hole with disc and jets

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NASA Helps Melt Secrets of Great Lakes Ice

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A color-coded image of major ice types on Lake Superior, made from a RADARSAT1 radar backscatter image...

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Riding an electron wave into the future of microchip fabrication: Computer simulation explores how intense plasma waves generate suprathermal electrons, which are critical to microchip fabrication

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A plasma wave can give rise to a population of suprathermal electrons.

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Spitzer and ALMA Reveal a Star's Bubbly Birth

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Combined observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the newly completed Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter...

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NASA Cassini Spacecraft Provides New View of Saturn and Earth

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On July 19, 2013, in an event celebrated the world over, NASA's Cassini spacecraft slipped into Saturn's shadow and...

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Structure of bacterial nanowire protein hints at secrets of conduction: Electrically conducting bacteria important for energy, environment and technology

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Zooming in on the Geobacter-Gonorrhea composite shows how the aromatic residues (teal balloon-like structures) bulge from the surface of...

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Taking a New Look at Carbon Nanotubes: Berkeley Researchers Develop Technique For Imaging Individual Carbon Nanotubes

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In this display showing optical imaging and spectroscopy of an individual nanotube on substrates and in devices, (a–c) are schematics of a...

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NSA has no direct access to customers' data, IT firms tell MEPs

Microsoft, Google and Facebook managers denied giving the NSA or any government in the world direct or unfettered access to their servers, at the ninth NSA inquiry hearing on the mass surveillance of EU citizens held at Parliament on Monday. US...

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