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What's Baking on Titan?

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NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtained this image of a feature shaped like a hot cross bun in the northern region of...

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Penn Researchers Find New Way to Prevent Cracking in Nanoparticle Films

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Nanoparticle films crack at certain thicknesses (left). By adding layers of thinner films, cracking can be avoided (right).

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X-ray Satellites Monitor the Clashing Winds of a Colossal Binary

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Two of these stars can be found in the intriguing binary system known as Cygnus OB2 #9. In...

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The best of both catalytic worlds

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Heterogenized homogeneous nanocatalysts are sustainable as shown by these TEM images in which there is almost no difference in the cluster...

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New Step towards Nanotechnology-Assisted Cancer Therapy

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Today, the state of the art regarding the diagnosis of cancers is focused on tumor identification on sub-cellular scales. Through this...

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Testing of Galileo satellite navigation system can begin

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X-ray Satellites Monitor the Clashing Winds of a Colossal Binary

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Artist's rendering of a colliding wind binary.

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How to Hunt a Space Rock

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JPL's Battle Mountain meteorite hunters. Pictured from left to right: Peter Willis, Amanda Stockton,...

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