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Blue Bursts of Hot Young Stars Captured by Hubble

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Temp-controlled 'nanopores' may allow detailed blood analysis

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By tethering gold nanoparticles (large spheres in top image) to the nanopore (violet), the temperature around the nanopore can be changed...

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University of Illinois researchers develop novel technique for chemical identification at the nanometer scale

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Atomic force microscope infrared spectroscopy (AFM-IR) of polymer nanostructures.

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Russian Scientists Might Have Found New Life Under Antarctic Ice

Russian scientists say they might have found new life forms in a fresh-water Antarctic lake that has been sealed off from the world for 14 million years.

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Measuring the Universe More Accurately Than Ever Before — New results pin down the distance to the galaxy next door

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Biobatteries catch breath

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New air-breathing cathode for miniaturised biofuel cells, developed by a team of researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the...

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Comet PANSTARRS Rises to the Occasion Mid-March

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For those in search of comet L4 PANSTARRS, look to the west after sunset in early and mid-March...

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NASA Mission Helps Craft 3-D Image Of Buried Mars Flood Channels

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This illustration schematically shows where the Shallow Radar instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter detected flood...

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