Science

Personal DNA Testing Made Easy

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As a home DNA detector, the ubiquitous glucose meter could become a general purpose detector that not only determines which...

Cassini Spies Wave Rattling Jet Stream on Jupiter

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Following the path of one of Jupiter's jet streams, a line of V-shaped chevrons travels west to east just above...

Cassini Captures New Images of Icy Moon

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NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this raw, unprocessed image of Saturn's moon Rhea on March 10, 2012. The camera was...

Mixed Future Awaits Hyper-Connected Youth

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Millennials can balance a lot of information. But, according to...

Solar Storm Strikes Earth’s Magnetic Field Without Major Disruptions

The Sun’s surface erupted with a series of solar storms this week, sending a barrage of electrically charged particles crashing into the Earth’s magnetic field. So far, the solar blasts have caused only minor disruptions to terrestrial communications...

Scientists Develop Super-Adhesive

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Imagine a super-adhesive material that’s so strong, an index-card sized piece could hold more than 300 kilograms against a...

NASA Mars Orbiter Catches Twister in Action

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A towering dust devil casts a serpentine shadow over the Martian surface in this image acquired by the High...

Citizen Scientists Reveal a Bubbly Milky Way

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A team of volunteers from the general public has pored over observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and...