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Search for Life on Mars --"Organisms on the ISS Survive a Red-Planet...
"The results help to assess the survival ability and long-term stability of microorganisms and bioindicators on the surface of Mars, information which becomes fundamental and relevant for future...
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The Quantum Asymmetry Between Space and Time --"There May be a Deeper Origin...
"If you want to know where the universe came from and where it's going, you need to know about time," says Joan Vaccaro at the Griffith University's Center for Quantum Dynamics. "Experiments on...
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Colossal Cloud Ejected From Milky Way 70 Million Years Ago --Plummeting Back!
Since astronomers discovered the Smith Cloud, a giant gas cloud plummeting toward the Milky Way, they have been unable to determine its composition, which would hold clues as to its origin....
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Apollo Mission Moon Rocks --"Evidence of a Head-On Collision 4.5 Billion...
The moon was formed by a violent, head-on collision between the early Earth and a "planetary embryo" called Theia approximately 100 million years after the Earth formed, UCLA geochemists and...
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"Quantum Hell" --The Universe Before the Big Bang (A 'Galaxy' Insight)
Martin Bojowald, a professor of phycics at Penn State University, presents his fascinating ideas about “Loop Quantum Cosmology” in Once Before Time: A Whole Story of the Universe. "Will we ever,"...
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The Dark Energy Enigma --"The Entire Universe is Being Pushed by an Unknown...
"Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed," said Noble Prize winning physicist Adam Riess in an interview. "I have absolutely no clue what dark...
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NASA: Understanding the Sun's Electromagnetic Field --"Crucial for Future...
"We're not sure exactly where in the sun the magnetic field is created," said Dean Pesnell, a space scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "It could be close to...
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At the Edge of the Observable Universe --"The First Galaxy After the Big...
Astronomers have mapped and measured the cosmos as far as the laws of physics allow to the very edge of the observable universe. Age and distance are vitally connected in any discussion of the...
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NASA's Mission to Europa's Global Ocean --"Does It Harbor Conditions for...
New NASA technology "will be used to support the overarching goal of the Europa mission, which is to understand the prerequisites of life in the solar system," said Sascha Kempf of the University...
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"Advanced Alien Life in the Universe May be in It's 'Very Young' Stage"...
Although there may be exo planets billions of years older than Earth, Harvard astronomer Dimitar Sasselov believes that intelligent life may be in it's "very young" stage in the observable...
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The Blombos Cave --Emergence of Human Culture, Technology, and the Neocortex
Blombos Cave in South Africa has given us vast knowledge about our early ancestors, realigning scientific notions of the origins of early modern behavior, pushing back the dates of evidence of...
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"The Flying Saucer" --New Discovery in a Spectacular Star-Forming Region
The international team has measured the temperature of large dust grains around the young star 2MASS J16281370-2431391 in the spectacular Rho Ophiuchi star formation region, about 400 light-years...
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Dark Matter Nixed as Source of Massive Bursts from Milky Way's Center
"Either we find hundreds or thousands of millisecond pulsars in the upcoming decade, shedding light on the history of the Milky Way, or we find nothing. In the latter case, a dark matter...
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NASA: "Death Star" Black Hole Shooting a Massive Beam Into Intergalactic Space
The Star Wars franchise has featured the fictitious “Death Star,” which can shoot powerful beams of radiation across space. The Universe, however, produces phenomena that often surpass what science...
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Jupiter and Saturn --"Delivered Components for Life to Form on Earth"
Not only is the "Jupiter as shield" concept, implying that the planet shields Earth from comet impacts, not true, but perhaps Jupiter's most important role in fostering the development of life on...
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Earth's Long-Term Temperatures Predictable --"Unless Affected by Human...
New evidence may finally help put the chill on skeptics' belief that long-term global warming occurs in an unpredictable manner, independently of external drivers such as human impacts. By...
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Starburst Galaxy With Two Supermassive Black Holes --Ripped by Largest Known...
NGC 6240, a butterfly-shaped galaxy that is the product of the collision of two smaller galaxies, revealed that the central region of the galaxy (inset shown below) contains not one, but two active...
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NASA's Juno Spacecraft On Course to Jupiter --"1st Probe Beneath the Gas...
NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft, launched from Earth in 2011, will arrive at Jupiter in 2016 to study the giant planet from an elliptical, polar orbit. Juno will repeatedly dive between the...
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Pluto's 'Icebergs' Float in a Sea of Frozen Nitrogen
Hills of water ice on Pluto ‘float’ in a sea of frozen nitrogen and move over time like icebergs in Earth’s Arctic Ocean—another example of Pluto’s fascinating geological activity. The nitrogen...
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NASA: Probing Enceladus's Global Ocean --The Most Habitable Spot in the Solar...
NASA's confirmation of the existence of a vast global ocean on Enceladus this past September casts a spotlight on Saturn's icy moon as the most potentially habitable spot beyond Earth in the...
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