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Mars’ ionosphere shaped by crustal magnetic fields
Mars as viewed by the Visual Monitoring Camera on Mars Express. Credit: ESA/D. O'Donnell - CC BY-SA IGO
Scattered pockets of magnetism across the surface...
NGC 6818 in the constellation of Sagittarius
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; acknowledgement: J. Schmidt (geckzilla.com)
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope had imaged NGC 6818 before, but it took another look at this...
A new threat to bees worldwide
A recent study published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports highlights a newly identified virus -- named Moku after the Hawaiian Island from which...
Supercomputer comes up with a profile of dark matter
Simulated distribution of dark matter approximately three billion years after the Big Bang (illustration not from this work).Credit: Copyright The Virgo Consortium/Alexandre Amblard/ESA
In the...
Debunking the myth of password security
Image Credit: Flickr/Christiaan Colen
When U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton was found to have used a private email server for government business as Secretary of...
Laser particles could provide sharper images of tissues
“…f a fluorescence microscope’s resolution is set at 2 micrometers, our technique can have 300 nanometer resolution — about a sixfold improvement over regular...
My contribution to Arctic sea ice melt
Participants in a sea ice measurement campaign including the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, are taking samples of the Arctic sea ice at Spitzbergen....
Universal principles of phase transitions confirmed
An optical lattice lines up gaseous cesium atoms. As the lattice is shaken, the atoms are driven across a ferromagnetic phase transition.Credit: Logan W....
Positive School Climates Can Narrow Achievement Gaps
Comprehensive Research Review Confirms Positive School Climates Can Narrow Achievement Gaps. Image Credit: Flickr/lupuca
Positive school climates contribute to academic achievement and can improve...
‘Bots’ step up for 2016 election news coverage
Image Credit: CC0 Public Domain
If you're reading about the US election, some of that news is likely to come to you from a "bot."
Automated...
Nanostructures made of pure gold
Nanostructure made of gold. Credit: Vienna University of Technology
It is the philosopher's stone of nanotechnology: Using a technological trick, scientists at TU Wien have...
