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September 12, 2025
The NASA-ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft captured this extreme ultraviolet wavelength image of the Sun on Feb. 24, 2015, during a three-hour period in which our closest star blew out a coronal mass ejection along with part of a solar filament. While some of the strands fell back into the Sun, a substantial […] Read more
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January 14, 2014
Spending as little as 45 minutes in a high-crime, deprived neighborhood can have measurable effects on people's trust in others and their feelings of paranoia. In a new study, students who visited high-crime neighborhoods quickly developed a level of trust and paranoia comparable to the residents of that neighborhood, and significantly different from that in more low-crime neighborhoods. As a result, urban planners should carefully consider the psychological effects of the environment. Read more
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January 20, 2026
The Nobel Prizes remind us how science can unite society and inspire hope for the future Read more
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September 13, 2023
Only 1.1 percent of autistic adults in the U.S. access key publicly funded employment services. A broken disability service system is why Read more
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February 7, 2012
Just like in the Russian wooden toy, a hull of 12 copper atoms encases a single tin atom. This hull is, in turn, enveloped by 20 further tin atoms. Professor Faessler's work group at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen was the first to generate these spatial structures built up in three layers as isolated metal clusters in alloys. With their large surfaces these structures can serve as highly efficient catalysts. Read more
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February 6, 2012
Studies of diving beetles suggest sperm evolution may be driven by changes in female reproductive organs, challenging the paradigm of post-mating sexual selection being driven mostly by competition among sperm. In the process, the researchers discovered an unexpected and stunning variety of sperm form and behavior. Read more
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May 30, 2024
What’s to prevent pups, with a snout that resembles a hedge trimmer, from slicing and dicing each other in mom’s uterus? Scientists have the answer. Read more
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March 20, 2012
A new imaging system, developed in MIT's Media Lab, could use opaque walls, doors or floors as "mirrors" to gather information about scenes outside its line of sight. Read more
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April 4, 2012
Observations by the two of the European Space Agency's space observatories have provided a multi-wavelength view of the mysterious galaxy Centaurus A. The new images, from the Herschel Space Observatory and the XMM-Newton X-ray satellite, are revealing further hints about its cannibalistic past and energetic processes going on in its core. Read more
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March 27, 2012
Amid concerns about possible terrorist attacks with nuclear materials, and fresh memories of environmental contamination from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan, scientists today at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society described development of a capsule that can be dropped into water, milk, fruit juices and other foods to remove more than a dozen radioactive substances. Read more
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