Science

New Instrument Continues Gathering Sun's Effects on the Earth

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Total solar irradiance (shown in color) over the past three solar cycles since 1978 adjusted to a ground-...

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Supernova Blast Provides Clues to Age of Binary Star System

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NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Obtains Best Views of Saturn Hexagon

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This colorful view from NASA's Cassini mission is the highest-resolution view of the unique six-sided jet stream at...

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Turning waste into power with bacteria — and loofahs

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Loofahs, thanks to their large pores, have emerged as a potential new tool to advance sustainability efforts on two fronts at the same time...

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Curing Cancer with Magnetic Nanoparticles

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Iron particles inside a tumor spin in an alternating magnetic field, generating enough heat to cook the cancer.

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A Fiery Drama of Star Birth and Death

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Comet ISON: has this lonely traveller reached the end of its journey?

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An image of Comet ISON, captured by the Hubble Telescope

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A new simulatable model displaying exotic quantum phenomena: Scientists at MPQ develop a new model for realizing the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in lattice systems

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Illustration of the lattice model where each particle is either in a ‘spin up’ or a ‘spin down’ state.

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