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NASA Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf

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Cluster Mission Indicates Turbulent Eddies May Warm the Solar Wind

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A 2-dimensional vision of the solar wind turbulence at the...

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Hubble Reveals Rogue Planetary Orbit for Fomalhaut b

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Counting the twists in a helical light beam: New device could contribute to a major increase in the rate of future optical communications

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This illustration (not to scale) simulates the process by which an incoming complex wave can be identified and transmitted to a...

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DNA prefers to dive head first into nanopores

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A preference for diving head first When a DNA strand is captured and pulled through a nanopore, it’s much more likely to start the journey...

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Cassini Suggests Icing on a Lake

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This artist's concept envisions what hydrocarbon ice forming on a liquid hydrocarbon sea of Saturn's moon Titan might...

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NASA's Big Mars Rover Makes First Use of its Brush

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This image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows the patch of rock cleaned by...

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Curiosity Rover Explores 'Yellowknife Bay'

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The sinuous rock feature in the lower center of this mosaic of images recorded by the NASA Mars rover Curiosity is...

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