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  Electric Moon Jolts the Solar Wind

  May 31, 2012 — With the moon as the most prominent object in the night sky and a major source of an invisible pull that creates ocean tides, many ancient cultures thought it could also affect our health or state of ... > full story
• Volcanoes
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  'Like a Jet Through Solid Rock:' Volcanic Arc Fed by Rapid Fluid Pulses

  May 31, 2012 — The depths of Earth are anything but peaceful: large quantities of liquids carve their way through the rock as fluids, causing magma to form. Scientists have now shown that the fluids flow a lot ... > full story
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  Mars Missions May Learn from Meteorite from Australia

  May 30, 2012 — A discovery about the make-up of the atmosphere of Mars could help inform future missions searching for life ... > full story
• Earth Science
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  Why Earth Is Not an Ice Ball: Possible Explanation for Faint Young Sun Paradox

  May 30, 2012 — More than 2 billion years ago, a much fainter sun should have left the Earth as an orbiting ice ball. Why we avoided the deep freeze is a question that has puzzled scientists, but one astronomer ... > full story
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  Asteroid Nudged by Sunlight: Most Precise Measurement of Yarkovsky Effect

  May 24, 2012 — Scientists on NASA's asteroid sample return mission have measured the orbit of their destination asteroid, 1999 RQ36, with such accuracy they were able to directly measure the drift resulting from a ... > full story

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  Organic Carbon from Mars, but Not Biological

  May 24, 2012 — Molecules containing large chains of carbon and hydrogen -- the building blocks of all life on Earth -- have been the targets of missions to Mars from Viking to the present day. While these molecules ... > full story
• Optics
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  Beam Me Up: 'Tractor Beams' of Light Pull Small Objects Towards Them

  May 24, 2012 — ‘Tractor beams’ of light that pull objects towards them are no longer science fiction. Scientists have now demonstrated how a tractor beam can in fact be realized on a small ... > full story
• NASA
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  NASA Ames Helps Re-Enter the Dragon

  May 23, 2012 — Decades of rigorous research, testing and development performed in the Entry Systems and Technology Division at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has garnered Ames' thermal ... > full story
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  Wind-Driven Mars Tumbleweed Rover to Roll Through Rocky Terrain?

  May 23, 2012 — New research shows that a wind-driven "tumbleweed" Mars rover would be capable of moving across rocky Martian terrain -- findings that could also help with designing the best possible ... > full story
• Galaxies
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  Nomads of the Galaxy: What Does It Mean to Have Quadrillions of Planets Adrift in Milky Way?

  May 23, 2012 — Planets simply adrift in space may not only be common in the cosmos; in the Milky Way Galaxy alone, their number may be in the quadrillions. Three experts discuss what this may mean, including how it ... > full story

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