Science

The Birth of a Giant Planet?

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Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have obtained what is likely the first direct observation of a forming planet still...

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Using Microbes to Generate Electricity

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Private US Group Plans Mars Fly-by in 2018

Plans are underway for the first manned mission to Mars -- just five years from now.

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NASA's NuSTAR Helps Solve Riddle of Black Hole Spin

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This artist's concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our sun....

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Fermi's Motion Produces a Study in Spirograph

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This image compresses the Vela movie sequence into a single snapshot by merging pie-slice...

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Rice builds nanotube photodetector: Project with Sandia National Laboratories leads to promising optoelectronic device

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This illustration shows an array of parallel carbon nanotubes 300 micrometers long that are attached to electrodes and display unique...

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Changing Shape Makes Chemotherapy Drugs Better at Targeting Cancer Cells: Researchers at UC Santa Barbara find that making anti-cancer drug particles rod-shaped significantly increases their ability to target and inhibit breast cancer cells

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Home-Made Traffic Nanopaints Used in Longest Iranian Tunnel

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The municipality of Tehran used traffic nanopaints produced by Pishgaman Fanavari Asia Company on the surface of the passages in Niyayesh...

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