Science

WISE Catalog Just Got Wiser

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The new AllWISE catalog will bring distant galaxies that were once invisible out of hiding, as illustrated in this image...

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Hubble views an old and mysterious cluster

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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best ever image of the globular cluster Messier 15, a gathering of very...

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Nano magnets arise at 2-D boundaries: Rice University theory has implications for spintronics

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Rice University theorists have discovered magnetic fields (blue) are created at grain boundaries in two-dimensional dichalcogenides....

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UT Austin researchers grow large graphene crystals that have exceptional electrical properties

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Yufeng Hao, postdoctoral fellow at The University of Texas at Austin, demonstrates large, single graphene crystals grown on copper.

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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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