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A Window into Europa's Ocean Right at the Surface

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Based on new evidence from Jupiter's moon Europa, astronomers hypothesize that chloride salts bubble up from the icy moon...

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High mass X-ray binaries trace the Milky Way's spiral arms

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Artist's impression of a highly obscured high-mass X-ray binary.

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Gravitational Lens Creates Cartoon of Space Invader

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Renewable energy: Nanotubes to channel osmotic power

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Diagram of the experimental principle: the osmotic transport of water through a transmembrane boron nitride nanotube.

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What Lies Beneath: NASA Antarctic Sub Goes Subglacial

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A video camera on a NASA-designed-and-funded mini-submarine captured this view as it descended a 2,600-foot...

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Hubble Observes Glowing, Fiery Shells of Gas

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New Nano-Based Method Found for Early Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer

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Getting around the Uncertainty Principle: Physicists make first direct measurements of polarization states of light

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Weak measurement: as light goes through a birefringent crystal the horizontally and vertically polarized components of light spread out in...

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