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Galaxy Growth Examined Like Rings of a Tree

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New evidence from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) missions...

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Columbia Engineers Develop New Device Architecture for 2D Materials, Making Electrical Contact from the 1D Edge: New Approach Produces Cleanest Graphene Yet, with Previously Unrealized Performance

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Significant Improvement in Weld Mechanical Properties Using Nanoparticles

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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Approaches 'Cooperstown'

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The low ridge that appears as a dark band below the horizon in the center of this scene is a Martian outcrop called "...

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'Molecular Velcro' may lead to cost-effective alternatives to natural antibodies: Berkeley Lab researchers take cues from nature in designing a programmable nanomaterial for biosensing

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Long organic molecules called peptoids self-assemble into a molecular film on the surface of a water solution. As this film gets folded...

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Incurable brain cancer gene is silenced: Gene regulation technology increases survival rates in mice with glioblastoma

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Researchers combined gold nanoparticles (in yellow) with small interfering RNAs (in green) to knock down an oncogene that is overexpressed...

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Cassini Swings Above Saturn to Compose a Portrait

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A swing high above Saturn by NASA's Cassini spacecraft revealed this stately view of the golden-hued planet and its...

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A Ghostly Trio from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope

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