 | Volunteers Wanted For Simulated 520-Day Mars Mission
Source: ESA Posted: 10/20/2009
Starting in 2010, an international crew of six will simulate a 520-day round-trip to Mars, including a 30-day stay on the martian surface.
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 | Astronomers Find Organic Molecules Around Gas Planet
Source: JPL/NASA Posted: 10/20/2009
Peering far beyond our solar system, NASA has detected the basic chemistry for life in a second hot gas planet, advancing astronomers toward the goal of being able to characterize planets where life could exist.
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 | Bursting The Sun's Bubble
Source: MIT Posted: 10/20/2009
New observations indicate the heliosphere — the sun's sphere of influence — has a different shape than theorists had expected.
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 | Puzzled Physicists Solve Decade-Long Discrepancies
Source: BNL Posted: 10/20/2009
Physicists have resolved a decade-long copper oxide ceramics puzzle.
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 | World's Smallest Semiconductor Laser
Source: Berkeley Posted: 9/7/2009
Researchers have reached a new milestone in laser physics by creating the world's smallest semiconductor laser, capable of generating visible light in a space smaller than a single protein molecule.
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 | Robots Swim With the Fishes
Source: MIT Posted: 9/7/2009
Borrowing from Mother Nature, a team of MIT researchers has built a school of swimming robo-fish that slip through the water just as gracefully as the real thing, if not quite as fast.
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 | Carbon Nanotube Detects Colors of the Rainbow
Source: Sandia Posted: 9/7/2009
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created the first carbon nanotube device that can detect the entire visible spectrum of light.
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 | Acoustic Tweezers Move Tiny Objects
Source: PSU Posted: 9/7/2009
Manipulating tiny objects like single cells often requires relatively large, unwieldy equipment, but now a system that uses sound as a tiny tweezers can be small enough to place on a chip.
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 | Physical Reality of String Theory Demonstrated
Source: Leiden Posted: 7/7/2009
Leiden theoretical physicists have now for the first time used string theory to describe a physical phenomenon. Their discovery has been reported this week in 'Science'.
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 | LRO's First Moon Images
Source: NASA Posted: 7/7/2009
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has transmitted its first images since reaching lunar orbit June 23.
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