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  Weightlessness of Space Used to Design Better Materials for Earth

  May 29, 2013 — Scientists are using the weightlessness of space to design stronger materials here on ... > full story
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  Walking or Bicycling to Work Influenced by Others

  May 29, 2013 — People who walk or bike to work are likely to influence their co-workers and partners to do the same, according to health ... > full story
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  Disappearance of Stromatolites, Earliest Visible Manifestation of Life: Ancient Enigma Solved?

  May 28, 2013 — The widespread disappearance of stromatolites, the earliest visible manifestation of life on Earth, may have been driven by single-celled organisms called foraminifera, a new study ... > full story
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  Accurate Distance Measurement Resolves Major Astronomical Mystery

  May 23, 2013 — Astronomers have resolved a major problem in their understanding of a class of stars that undergo regular outbursts by accurately measuring the distance to a famous example of the ... > full story
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  Hidden Population of Exotic Neutron Stars

  May 23, 2013 — Magnetars -- the dense remains of dead stars that erupt sporadically with bursts of high-energy radiation -- are some of the most extreme objects known in the Universe. A major campaign using NASA's ... > full story
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  Model of Sun's Magnetic Field Created

  May 22, 2013 — Researchers have uncovered an important mechanism behind the generation of astrophysical magnetic fields such as that of the ... > full story
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  NASA’s BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons

  May 21, 2013 — In Antarctica in January, 2013 -- the summer at the South Pole -- scientists released 20 balloons, each eight stories tall, into the air to help answer an enduring space weather question: when the ... > full story
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  NASA's IRIS Mission Readies for a New Challenge

  May 21, 2013 — NASA is getting ready to launch a new mission, a mission to observe a largely unexplored region of the solar atmosphere that powers its dynamic million-degree outer atmosphere and drives the solar ... > full story
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  Geochemist Aids Development of Geologic Time Scale for Study of Earth's History

  May 21, 2013 — The Geologic Time Scale 2012, or GTS2012, is the latest understanding of Earth's history, and the means by which geoscientists around the world investigate the rock ... > full story
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  The Mammoth's Lament: How Cosmic Impact Sparked Devastating Climate Change

  May 20, 2013 — Researchers have found evidence of a major cosmic event near the end of the Ice Age. The ensuing climate change forced many species to adapt or ... > full story

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