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Can We Spot Volcanoes on Alien Worlds? Astronomers Say Yes.
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09/09/2010 01:46 AM
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Volcanoes display the awesome power of Nature like few other events. Earlier this year, ash from an Icelandic volcano disrupted air travel throughout much of northern Europe. Yet this recent eruption pales next to the fury of Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in our solar system. (2010-09-08)
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Universe chaotic from very beginning
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09/09/2010 01:46 AM
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Seven years ago Northwestern University physicist Adilson E. Motter conjectured that the expansion of the universe at the time of the big bang was highly chaotic. Now he and a colleague have proven it using rigorous mathematical arguments. (2010-09-08)
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Transition metal catalysts could be key to origin of life, scientists report
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09/09/2010 01:46 AM
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One of the big, unsolved problems in explaining how life arose on Earth is a chicken-and-egg paradox: How could the basic biochemicals-such as amino acids and nucleotides-have arisen before the biological catalysts (proteins or ribozymes) existed to carry out their formation? (2010-09-07)
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Glasperlenspiel: NIST scientists propose new test for gravity
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09/09/2010 01:46 AM
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A new experiment proposed by physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may allow researchers to test the effects of gravity with unprecedented precision at very short distances-a scale at which exotic new details of gravity's behavior may be detectable. (2010-09-02)
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IceCube neutrino observatory nears complete
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09/09/2010 01:46 AM
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In December 2010, IceCube -- the world's first kilometer-scale neutrino observatory, whiuch is located beneath the Antarctic ice -- will finally be completed after two decades of planning. (2010-09-01)
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Researchers discover how to conduct first test of 'untestable' string theory
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09/09/2010 01:46 AM
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Researchers describe how to carry out the first experimental test of string theory in a paper published tomorrow in Physical Review Letters. (2010-09-01)
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NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Two Planets Transiting Same Star
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09/09/2010 01:46 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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Pulverized Planet Dust Might Lie Around Double Stars
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09/09/2010 01:46 AM
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Tight double-star systems might not be the best places for life to spring up, according to a new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. (2010-08-25)
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Cosmic accelerators discovered in our galaxy by UCLA physicists, Japanese colleague
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09/09/2010 01:46 AM
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Physicists from UCLA and Japan have discovered evidence of "natural nuclear accelerators" at work in our Milky Way galaxy, based on an analysis of data from the world's largest cosmic ray detector. (2010-08-18)
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Experiments offer tantalizing clues as to why matter prevails in the universe
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09/09/2010 01:46 AM
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A large collaboration of physicists working at the Fermilab Tevatron particle collider has discovered evidence of an explanation for the prevalence of matter over antimatter in the universe. (2010-08-17)
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Decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics
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09/09/2010 01:46 AM
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A new report by the National Research Council identifies the highest- priority research activities for astronomy and astrophysics in the next decade that will "set the nation firmly on the path to answering profound questions about the cosmos." (2010-08-16)
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Citizen Scientists Discover Rotating Pulsar
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09/09/2010 01:46 AM
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Idle computers are the astronomers' playground: Three citizen scientists--an American couple and a German--have discovered a new radio pulsar hidden in data gathered by the Arecibo Observatory. (2010-08-13)
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Dark-matter search plunges physicists to new depths
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09/09/2010 01:46 AM
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This month physicist Juan Collar and his associates are taking their attempt to unmask the secret identity of dark matter into a Canadian mine more than a mile underground. (2010-08-12)
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Making sense of space dust: Researchers explore solar system's origins
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09/09/2010 01:46 AM
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The chemical breakdown of minerals that may be lurking in space dust soon will be available to scientists around the world. (2010-08-11)
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