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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 10th, 2011
Puppis A Supernova Remnant Resembles a Beautiful Rose

Puppis A Supernova Remnant Resembles a Beautiful Rose

The stellar explosion may have startled some ancient people

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 9th, 2011
Alien Exoplanet Distorts Own Star System

Alien Exoplanet Distorts Own Star System

The finding could yield more insight into the nature of other systems

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 9th, 2011
LHC to Make Important Announcement About the Higgs Boson

LHC to Make Important Announcement About the Higgs Boson

The Internet is up in arms about what that might be

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 9th, 2011
NASA Loses Track of Large Batch of Lunar Samples

NASA Loses Track of Large Batch of Lunar Samples

The rocks and dust are nowhere to be found, the agency admits

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 9th, 2011
Validating CryoSat Data from 'Down Under'

Validating CryoSat Data from 'Down Under'

Experts are braving freezing temperatures to forward science

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 9th, 2011
Autonomy Program on Mars Rover Wins NASA Award

Autonomy Program on Mars Rover Wins NASA Award

The software was installed rather recently, but it's already proving useful

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 9th, 2011
Blue Origin Delivers Rocket Components to NASA Stennis

Blue Origin Delivers Rocket Components to NASA Stennis

The announcement was made by a top space agency official

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 8th, 2011
Cluster Filled with Supermassive Stars Looks Like a Dragonfish

Cluster Filled with Supermassive Stars Looks Like a Dragonfish

The structure is filled with stars many times heavier than the Sun

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 8th, 2011
Sentinel-5 Satellite Prime Contractor Selected

Sentinel-5 Satellite Prime Contractor Selected

ESA decided to go with Astrium UK for this ambitious project

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 8th, 2011
Vesta Was Impacted by Asteroids Rather Recently

Vesta Was Impacted by Asteroids Rather Recently

New images of the poke marks were sent back to Earth by Dawn

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 8th, 2011
Ecstasy Leads to Drops in Serotonin Production

Ecstasy Leads to Drops in Serotonin Production

The chemical is linked to well-being in humans

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 8th, 2011
MythBusters Put on Hold After Cannonball Flies Through House

MythBusters Put on Hold After Cannonball Flies Through House

The popular show is halted pending the conclusions of an investigation

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 8th, 2011
HiView Allows You to Hike on Martian Landscapes

HiView Allows You to Hike on Martian Landscapes

The tool covers thousands of square miles in high-resolution

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 7th, 2011
Detecting Hurricanes in Models of Earth's Future Climate

Detecting Hurricanes in Models of Earth's Future Climate

New data-mining methods could finally make this possible

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 7th, 2011
Empathy Fatigue to Spread Throughout the United States

Empathy Fatigue to Spread Throughout the United States

Once-rare occurrences will become increasingly common

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 7th, 2011
Size of Crib Enclosed in Some Frogs' Calls

Size of Crib Enclosed in Some Frogs' Calls

This information is apparently essential to their prospective mates

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 7th, 2011
Arsenic-Based Bacterium Has Its Genome Sequenced

Arsenic-Based Bacterium Has Its Genome Sequenced

NASA experts caused waves when they first announced the discovery

 
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