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Goodness, Gracious, Great Balls of Lightning!
October 19, 2012 Australian scientists have unveiled a new theory which explains the mysterious phenomenon known as ball ... > full story -
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Cosmic Rays Could Assist in Healing Fukushima's Nuclear Scar
October 17, 2012 Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have devised a method to use cosmic rays to gather detailed information from inside the damaged cores of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors, which ... > full story -
Stat5 Predicts Outcomes for Prostate Cancer Patients After Radical Prostatectomy
October 16, 2012 Men who had high levels of the activated Stat5 protein in their prostate cancer after a radical prostatectomy were more likely to have a recurrence or die from the disease compared to men who had ... > full story -
New Weapons Detail Reveals True Depth of Cuban Missile Crisis
October 12, 2012 The Cuban Missile Crisis took place 50 years ago this October, when US and Soviet leaders pulled back from the very brink of nuclear war. This was the closest the world has come to nuclear war, but ... > full story -
Fusion Energy: Mug Handles Could Help Hot Plasma Give Lower-Cost, Controllable Fusion Energy
October 11, 2012 New hardware lets engineers maintain the plasma used in fusion reactors in an energy-efficient, stable manner, making the system potentially attractive for use in fusion power ... > full story -
2010 Korea Bomb 'Tests' Probably False Alarms, Says Study
October 9, 2012 This spring, a Swedish scientist sparked international concern with a journal article saying that radioactive particles detected in 2010 showed North Korea had set off at least two small nuclear ... > full story -
How Pulsars Slow Down With Age
October 8, 2012 Researchers have developed a model which explains how the spin of a pulsar slows down as the star gets older. A pulsar is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star which was formed from the remains ... > full story -
Paving the Way for Commercial Fusion Power Plants
October 8, 2012 Latest results from the Joint European Torus (JET) fusion device are giving researchers increasing confidence in prospects for the next-generation ITER project, the international experiment that is ... > full story -
Hubble Sees Cosmic Riches
October 5, 2012 A dazzling new image shows the globular cluster Messier 69, or M 69 for short, as viewed through the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Globular clusters are dense collections of old stars. In this ... > full story -
The Helix Nebula: Bigger in Death Than Life
October 4, 2012 A dying star is refusing to go quietly into the night, as seen in a combined infrared and ultraviolet view from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), which NASA ... > full story
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