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Predictions Are in for Arctic Sea Ice Low Point
It’s become a sport of sorts, predicting the low point of Arctic sea ice each year. Expert scientists with...
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More Trial, Less Error: An Effort to Improve Scientific Studies
So many scientific studies are making incorrect claims that a new service has sprung up to fact-check reported findings...
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Mars’ Plate Tectonics May Make Life More Likely
As it turns out, Mars and Earth may be more similar than previously thought in one momentous way: Mars...
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A Week on Mars: Curiosity Rover Settles in for Long Martian Haul
After a full week on the Red Planet, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is celebrating with a little rest and...
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The Velveteen Robot
Researchers at MIT, Harvard, and Seoul National University have created a robotic worm. “So what?” you ask. They’re also...
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Could Space Mirrors Stop Global Warming?
In the early 2000s, Lowell Wood of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory proposed cooling the earth by launching reflective mirrors...
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DNA Code Shapes Gold Nanoparticles
DNA holds the genetic code for all sorts of biological molecules and traits. But University of Illinois researchers have...
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Nanoparticle Discovery Opens Door for Pharmaceuticals
What a University of Central Florida student thought was a failed experiment has led to a serendipitous discovery hailed...
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Curiosity Lands Safely: ‘Wheels Down on Mars’
Curiosity, the largest and most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet, stuck its extraordinary landing in triumphant and...
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A Step-By-Step Guide to the Mars Rover Landing Plan
At 10:31 p.m. PDT on Aug. 5, after nearly nine months of travel, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission (with...