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New Horizons: Possible Clouds on Pluto, Next Target is Reddish
Artist's impression of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Kuiper Belt object, as part of an extended mission after the spacecraft’s July 2015 Pluto...
Scientists find new genetic roots of schizophrenia
UCLA scientists have made a major advance in understanding the biology of schizophrenia. Using a recently developed technology for analyzing DNA, the scientists found...
Ups and downs of water escape from Mars
This image shows atomic hydrogen scattering sunlight in the upper atmosphere of Mars, as seen by the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph on NASA's Mars Atmosphere...
Eta Carinae: VLT Interferometer captures raging winds in famous massive stellar system
This mosaic shows the Carina Nebula (left part of the image), home of the Eta Carinae star system. This part was observed with the...
Portable smartphone laboratory detects cancer at once
Washington State University researchers have developed a low-cost, portable laboratory on a smartphone that can analyze several samples at once to catch a cancer...
Impact of the Fukushima accident on marine life, five years later
Five years ago, the largest single release of human-made radioactive discharge to the marine environment resulted from an accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear...
Historical Records May Underestimate Sea Level Rise
Sea level change resulting from Greenland ice melt, derived from NASA GRACE measurements. Black circles show locations of the best historical water level records,...
Cloudy Nights, Sunny Days on Distant Hot Jupiters
This illustration represents how hot Jupiters of different temperatures and different cloud compositions might appear to a person flying over the dayside of these...
Researchers study vast carbon residue of ocean life
Left: Sampling locations showing the dissolved organic carbon concentration measured at the surface (dots) over Chlorophyll recorded from satellite (background)Right: Dissolved organic carbon calculated...
New 3-D wiring technique brings scalable quantum computers closer to reality
Researchers from the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo led the development of a quantum socket, representing a significant step towards...
Greenland ice is melting 7 percent faster than previously thought
This GPS unit is one of more than 50 that researchers have planted in the Greenland bedrock to measure ice loss. Researchers in the...
