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  Origin of Life: Power Behind Primordial Soup Discovered

  April 4, 2013 — Researchers may have solved a key puzzle about how objects from space could have kindled life on ... > full story
• Mice
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  How Rats See Things

  April 4, 2013 — The image of an object, when projected into the eyes, may take on the most diverse shapes depending on the chosen point of view, as this can change its distance, perspective and so on, yet generally ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
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  Astronomers Anticipate 100 Billion Earth-Like Planets

  April 3, 2013 — Researchers have proposed a new method for finding Earth-like planets and they anticipate that the number will be in the order of 100 billion. The strategy uses a technique called gravitational ... > full story
• Dark Matter
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  Search for Dark Matter: Experiment Measures Antimatter Excess in Cosmic Ray Flux

  April 3, 2013 — The international team running the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) today announced the first results in its search for dark matter. They report the observation of an excess of positrons in the ... > full story

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  Earth Is 'Lazy' When Forming Faults Like Those Near San Andreas

  April 3, 2013 — Some geoscientists have taken an uncommon, “Earth is lazy” approach to modeling fault development in the crust and it is providing new insights into how faults grow. In particular, this ... > full story
• Sun
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  NASA's SORCE Satellite Marks a Decade in the Sun

  April 2, 2013 — NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite has been providing data on the sun's irradiance for 10 years. SORCE measures electromagnetic radiation produced by the sun and the ... > full story
• Nebulae
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  Hubble Sees J 900 Masquerading as a Double Star

  April 2, 2013 — A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows Jonckheere 900 or J 900, a planetary nebula -- glowing shells of ionized gas pushed out by a dying star. Discovered in the early 1900s by astronomer ... > full story
• Geology
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  Congestion in Earth's Mantle: Mineralogists Explain Why Plate Tectonics Stagnates in Some Places

  March 31, 2013 — Seismic measurements show that in some regions of the Earth's mantle, plate tectonics stagnates. The causes of the 'congestion' of the subducted plate are still unknown. In a new study, mineralogists ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  NASA's Swift Sizes Up Comet ISON

  March 29, 2013 — Astronomers have used NASA's Swift satellite to check out comet C/2012 S1 (ISON), which may become one of the most dazzling in decades when it rounds the sun later this ... > full story
• Solar System
  Saturn
  Astronomy
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  Saturn Is Like an Antiques Shop, Cassini Suggests; Moons and Rings Date Back to Solar System's Birth

  March 27, 2013 — A new analysis of data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggests that Saturn's moons and rings are gently worn vintage goods from around the time of our solar system's birth. Though they are tinted on ... > full story

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