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NASA's newest space telescope is giving scientists their best look yet at the highest-energy gamma ray bursts generated by violent events in space. For Toby Burnett, a University of Washington physics professor, it's a welcome payoff for 13 long years of work. (Read More)
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Using semiconductor nanotechnology, Srinivas Sridhar, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Chair of Physics at Northeastern University, and his team of researchers from the university%u2019s Electronic Materials Research Institute have created a new microlens that focuses infrared light at telecommunication frequencies. (Read More)
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Parts of a giant, exquisitely carved marble sculpture depicting the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius have been found at an archaeological site in Turkey. (Read More)
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Climate change could release unexpectedly huge stores of carbon dioxide from Arctic soils, which would in turn fuel a vicious circle of global warming, a new study warned Sunday. (Read More)
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The image was unveiled today at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles as part of Spitzer's five-year anniversary celebration. (Read More)
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has scooped up a soil sample from an intermediate depth between the ground surface and a subsurface icy layer. The sample was delivered to a laboratory oven on the spacecraft. (Read More)
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A suborbital rocket carrying experiments conducted by NASA exploded early Friday morning 27 seconds after launch on Wallops Island in Virginia. (Read More)
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The present report deals with reconstructing the facial shapes of ancient inhabitants of Israel based on their cranial remains. (Read More)
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The systematics of celestial bodies apparently needs to be revised. Researchers at the Argelander Institute of Astronomy of the University of Bonn have discovered that brown dwarfs need to be treated as a separate class in addition to stars and planets. To date they had been merely regarded as stars which were below normal (Read More)
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