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NASA's SDO Sees Massive Filament Erupt on Sun

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Swirls of green and red appear in an aurora over Whitehorse, Yukon on the night of September 3, 2012. The aurora was due to the interaction of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun with Earth's magnetosphere. The CME left the sun on August 31 and arrived on September 3.

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Interfaces provide new control over oxides' electronic properties

Materials called transition metal oxides have physicists intrigued by their potentially useful properties -- from magnetoresistance (the reason a hard drive can write memory) to superconductivity.

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An artist's rendering of a transition metal oxide superlattice, with an actual transmission electron microscopy image superimposed on the left panel. The red is manganese, yellow is lanthanum and blue is strontium. The top is a Fermi surface map which illustrates how electrons move in the material.

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Performance Model of Biomolecules in Magnetic Fields Revealed by Scientists

Iranian researchers at Malek-e Ashtar University of Technology and Tarbiat Modarres University managed to discover a meaningful model for performance of biomolecules in magnetic fields by studying the effects of magnetic nanoparticles on the enzyme activity of Flavobacterium, modified with magnetic nanoparticles.

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Cell stabilization is the physical holding or connection of a cell in a particular place in a way that it can be used repeatedly and continuously.

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Peek-a-blue Moon

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Earth and Moon

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Iran Produces New Anti-Corrosion Nanocoatings to Increase Metallic Structures' Lifetime

Iranian researchers from Amir Kabir University of Technology and University of Petroleum Industry produced epoxy/polyamide coatings with improved anti-corrosive and physic-mechanical properties by using zinc oxide nanoparticles.

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Metallic structures are significantly damaged annually in the country, and corrosion is the main cause of the damage. Great volume of organic coatings is used for the protection of metals against corrosion.

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A smart way to impact the Moon

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SMART-1 crash scene

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Hubble Spotted a Supernova in NGC 5806

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This image is produced from three exposures in visible and infrared light, observed by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys.

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NASA's GRAIL Moon Twins Begin Extended Mission Science

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Artist concept of GRAIL mission. Grail will fly twin spacecraft in tandem orbits around the moon to measure its gravity field in unprecedented detail.

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Record-Breaking Stellar Explosion Helps Understand Far-Off Galaxy

Nature hath no fury like a dying star – and astronomers couldn’t be happier…

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Iranian Scientists Introduce Nanocomposite for Deactivation of E.Coli Bacterium

Iranian researchers at Islamic Azad University successfully introduced ZnO/SnO2 nanocomposite catalyst with molar ratio of 2:1 with higher performance than single films of ZnO and SnO2 by using drop method to deactivate E.Coli bacterium.

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