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Hubble View of a Special Spiral Galaxy

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Researchers Advance Scheme to Design Seamless Integrated Circuits Etched on Graphene: UC Santa Barbara researchers demonstrate seamless designing of an atomically-thin circuit with transistors and interconnects etched on a monolayer of graphene

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Stealth nanoparticles lower drug-resistant tumors' defenses

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A layered nanoparticle with an anticancer drug core, a gene-silencing inner layer and a tumor-targeting outer layer could provide a new way...

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ALMA Probes Mysteries of Jets from Giant Black Holes

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Two international teams of astronomers have used the power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to focus on...

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Rings, Dark Side of Saturn Glow in New Cassini Image

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This colorized mosaic from NASA's Cassini mission shows an infrared view of the Saturn system, backlit by the sun, from...

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A chameleon in the physics lab: Looking cooler when heated, a thin coating tricks infrared cameras

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A new coating intrinsically conceals its own temperature to thermal cameras.

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Project aims to mass-produce 'nanopetals' for sensors, batteries

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These color-enhanced scanning electron microscope images show nanosheets resembling tiny rose petals. The nanosheets are key components of...

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Asteroid 2013 TV135 - A Reality Check

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This diagram shows the orbit of asteroid 2013 TV135 (in blue), which has just a one-in-63,000 chance of...

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