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Best image of Alpha Centauri A and B
The closest star system to the Earth is the famous Alpha Centauri group. Located in the constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur), at a distance...
New light on the complex nature of ‘hot Jupiter’ atmospheres
A team of international researchers used state-of-the-art modelling techniques to extensively study the atmosphere of a ‘hot Jupiter’ found 150 lightyears from Earth.
Fascinating new...
Renewable energy breakthrough: Solar-powered reaction 100 times faster
An illustration shows one possible way that a highly active iridium oxide layer could form on the surface of a strontium iridium oxide catalyst....
‘Gambling’ wolves take more risks than dogs
Image Credit: Flickr/blacktigersdream
Would you rather get 100 euros for certain, or have a fifty-fifty chance of receiving either 200 euros or nothing? Most choose...
Electronic circuits printed at one micron resolution
Formation of microcircuit lines using a selective coating technique. (a) Schematic of selective coating technique. Only a hydrophilic region created through irradiation of parallel...
Ceres: The tiny world where volcanoes erupt ice
Volcanic dome Ahuna Mons rises above a foreground impact crater, as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft with no vertical exaggeration. Eruptions of salty, muddy...
Sulfur, sulfur dioxide and graphitized carbon observed on asteroid for first time
Images of Ceres made using combined Dawn and 2005 HST ultraviolet-visible wavelength images. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/Philip Stooke/Ian Regan
Hubble Space Telescope observations of the dwarf planet...
Engineers develop a plastic clothing material that cools the skin
Stanford researchers began with a sheet of polyethylene and modified it with a series of chemical treatments, resulting in a cooling fabric.Credit: L.A. Cicero
Stanford...
Autism severity linked to genetics, ultrasound, data analysis finds
For children with autism and a class of genetic disorders, exposure to diagnostic ultrasound in the first trimester of pregnancy is linked to increased...
First DNA Sequencing in Space a Game Changer
NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins sequenced DNA in space for the first time ever for the Biomolecule Sequencer investigation, using the MinION sequencing device.Credits: NASA
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Images from Sun’s edge reveal origins of solar wind
Conceptual animation (not to scale) showing the Sun's corona and solar wind. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Lisa Poje
Ever since the 1950s discovery of...
