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With new technique, UF astronomers find potassium in giant planet's atmosphere
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09/09/2010 02:01 AM
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Any driver who's seen deer silhouetted by the headlights of an oncoming car knows that vital information can be conveyed by the outlines of objects. (2010-09-01)
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NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Two Planets Transiting Same Star
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09/09/2010 02:01 AM
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NASA's Kepler Mission has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet transiting the same star. (2010-08-27)
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New Study by Scripps Research and Virginia Commonwealth Scientists Shed Light on Painkilling System in Brain
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09/09/2010 02:01 AM
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Repeatedly boosting brain levels of one natural painkiller soon shuts down the brain cell receptors that respond to it, so that the painkilling effect is lost, according to a surprising new study led by Scripps Research Institute and Virginia Commonwealth University scientists. (2010-08-25)
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In NIH-funded study, researchers uncover step in brain events leading up to addiction
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09/09/2010 02:01 AM
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A regulatory protein best known for its role in a rare genetic brain disorder also may play a critical role in cocaine addiction, according to a recent study in rats, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a component of the National Institutes of Health. (2010-08-16)
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Asteroid found in gravitational 'dead zone'
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09/09/2010 02:01 AM
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There are places in space where the gravitational tug between a planet and the Sun balance out, allowing other smaller bodies to remain stable. These places are called Lagrangian points. (2010-08-13)
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Caltech astronomer finds planets in unusually intimate dance around dying star
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09/09/2010 02:01 AM
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Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming isolation. (2010-07-28)
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Expedition to Mid-Cayman Rise identifies unusual variety of deep sea vents
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09/09/2010 02:01 AM
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The first expedition to search for deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the Mid-Cayman Rise has turned up three distinct types of hydrothermal venting, reports an interdisciplinary team led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (2010-07-21)
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NIH-Supported Finding on Cocaine Addiction: Tiny Molecule, Big Promise
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09/09/2010 02:01 AM
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A specific and remarkably small fragment of RNA appears to protect rats against cocaine addiction - and may also protect humans, according to a recent study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a component of the National Institutes of Health. The study was published today in the journal Nature. (2010-07-09)
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More proof that new planet and star are moving together
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09/09/2010 02:01 AM
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A planet about eight times the mass of Jupiter has been confirmed to orbit a Sun-like star that's some 300 times farther from its own star than Earth is from its sun. (2010-06-30)
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Quantum simulations uncoverhydrogen's phase transitions
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09/09/2010 02:01 AM
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Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and is a major component of giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn. (2010-06-24)
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Rosetta's blind date with asteroid Lutetia
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09/09/2010 02:01 AM
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ESA's comet-chaser Rosetta is heading for a blind date with asteroid Lutetia. Rosetta does not yet know what Lutetia looks like up-close but beautiful or otherwise the two will meet on 10 July. (2010-06-16)
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Zooming in on an infant solar system
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09/09/2010 02:01 AM
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A team led by University of Arizona astronomer Joshua Eisner has observed in unprecedented detail the processes giving rise to stars and planets in nascent solar systems. (2010-06-14)
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Exoplanet caught on the move
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09/09/2010 02:01 AM
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Only 12 million years old, or less than three-thousandths of the age of the Sun, Beta Pictoris is 75% more massive than our parent star. It is located about 60 light-years away towards the constellation of Pictor (the Painter) and is one of the best-known examples of a star surrounded by a dusty debris disc. (2010-06-11)
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Weird orbits of neighbors can make 'habitable' planets not so habitable
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09/09/2010 02:01 AM
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Astronomers hunting for planets orbiting nearby stars similar to the sun are looking for signs of rocky, Earth-like planets in a "habitable" zone, where conditions such as temperature and liquid water remain stable enough to support life. (2010-05-25)
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