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One Million Downloads for JPL Space Images App

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NASA/JPL's popular mobile app continues to amass many exciting images including the Mars Curiosity...

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2 problems in chemical catalysis solved: University of Jyvaskyla Department of Chemistry and NanoScience Center

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This image shows a novel bifunctional catalyst for the Mannich reaction.

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May the force be with the atomic probe: New models suggest devising means of probing a surface at a sub-micrometric level as this will help us understand how electrons’ diffusion affects long-range attractive forces

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CryoSat hits land

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Shot Away from its Companion, Giant Star Makes Waves

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The giant star Zeta Ophiuchi is having a "shocking" effect on the surrounding dust clouds in this infrared image from...

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Stars Reveal the Secrets of Looking Young

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Novel Nanoparticles for Easier Biomarker Detection

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These nanoparticles created by MIT engineers can act as synthetic biomarkers for disease. The particles (brown) are coated with peptides (...

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Synthetic and biological nanoparticles combined to produce new metamaterials

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Two different protein cages, cowpea chlorotic mottle virus (blue) and Pyrococcus furiosus ferritin (red), can be used to guide the assembly...

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