NASA Catches Two Black Holes Sucking Face
Technology The Chandra X-ray Observatory helped discover two merging black holes a mere 3,000 light years apart Colliding black holes may prove more interesting to scientists than the immovable object...
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Brilliant 10: Sarah T. Stewart, the Master Blaster
Technology Stewart discovers the secrets of planets by re-creating their collisions Why does the universe look the way it does? Sarah T. Stewart thinks she knows the answer. “It all comes down to big...
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Injured Brazilian Wolf Is First Wild Animal Treated With Stem Cells
Science A maned wolf that had been left for dead after being hit by a truck was released back into the Brazilian wild this month, granted a speedy recovery through the use of stem… A maned wolf that...
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Video: Scientists Smash Giant Granite Balls Together to Simulate Asteroid...
Science Two stones, each a meter in diameter, suspended from cranes Planetary science isn’t all telescopes and spectral lines. Sometimes you need 40-foot cranes, advice from a dude named A-Ray, and a...
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Scientists Trap Single Atoms With Lasers, Optical Tweezers and Lots of Atomic...
Science "We created a method to control individual atoms, to get them exactly where we want them, when we want them: an atom trap. Atoms are very fast, so we use powerful cooling… "We created a method...
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A Car That Predicts Danger
Cars How to avert crises in heavy traffic Collision-avoidance systems have an Achilles’ heel: In heavy traffic, they are just as blind to risks down the road as drivers are, particularly when trucks...
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When Space Probes Crash--For Science And Otherwise
Space The greatest hits of Earth's unmanned spacecraft NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft has been enjoying the past four years zipping around the planet Mercury. Launched in 2004, the probe traveled for six...
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NASA's MESSENGER Probe Set To Slam Into Mercury Today
Space A look back at the spacecraft's greatest discoveries Today’s the day we say “au revoir” to NASA’s resilient MESSENGER space probe. Actually, it’d probably be more appropriate to say “geronimo.”...
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Scientists literally brought out the big gun to study the origins of water
Space High impact research. Water is everywhere on our planet. If it's not crashing against the shore, it's pounding on the roof, or dripping from the faucet, or pooling unfortunately right in that…
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Cosmic collisions with their neighbors may have weighed these white dwarfs down
Space Two stars enter, one star leaves Now, a study recently submitted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters finds that roughly one in 10 white dwarf stars may actually be...
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