Science

Mars Rover Opportunity Trekking Toward More Layers

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Botany Bay is a topographic saddle exposing sedimentary rocks that are part of the Burns formation, a geological unit...

UC Santa Barbara study provides a new framework for understanding the energetics of ionic liquids

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This is a diagram of the surface forces apparatus used to study ionic liquids.

Hidden Wildfires Taking Big Toll on Amazon Rainforest

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Researchers for the first time mapped the extent and frequency of understory fires across a study area (green)...

NASA Flights Target How Pollution, Storms and Climate Mix

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Cassini Sees Precursors to Aerosol Haze on Titan

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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the night side of Saturn's largest moon and sees sunlight scattering through...

NASA Spacecraft Sees Tornado's Destructive Swath

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The Newcastle-Moore EF-5 tornado ripped through central Oklahoma on May 20, 2013, killing 24 people and leaving behind...

Metamaterial Flexible Sheets Could Transform Optics: New design flattens bulky optical devices

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(a) Photograph of an ultrathin (72 µm thick) metamaterial sample. (b) Illustration of how the metamaterial redirects an electromagnetic wave...

Spintronics approach enables new quantum technologies

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This artist’s rendering shows all-optical control of an individual electronic spin within a diamond. This spin is associated with a...