Science

Nanoparticles against aging

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Internalization and controlled release of the fluorescent molecule rhodamine in senescent fibroblasts of patients with dyskeratosis...

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More certainty on uncertainty's quantum mechanical role: Researchers present findings at Frontiers in Optics 2012 that observation need not disturb systems as much as once thought, severing the act of measurement from the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

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A general method for measuring the precision and disturbance of any system. The system is weakly measured before the measurement...

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NASA Mars Curiosity Rover Prepares to Study Martian Soil

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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity cut a wheel scuff mark into a wind-formed ripple at the "Rocknest" site to give researchers...

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Ice-coated beauty in Mars’ Silver Island

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Topographical view Argyre Planitia

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Research Shows Graphene Nanopores Can Be Controlled: Less Costly Ways of Sequencing DNA Could Open New Possibilities for Disease Prevention

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These are transmission electron microscope images of a nanopore in graphene. The original pore on the left grows considerably under the...

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NASA's Infrared Observatory Measures Expansion of Universe

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Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have greatly improved the cosmic distance ladder used to measure the...

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Comet crystals found in a nearby planetary system

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Close-up of olivine crystals seen inside a meteorite found on Earth that originated from a partly melted Solar System asteroid...

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The Helix Nebula: Bigger in Death than Life

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A dying star is throwing a cosmic tantrum in this combined image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Galaxy...

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