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Multi-Purpose Wonder Can Generate Hydrogen, Produce Clean Water and Even Provide Energy
March 20, 2013 A new wonder material can generate hydrogen, produce clean water and even provide energy. Science fiction? Hardly, and there's more -- It can also desalinate water, be used as flexible water ... > full story -
Record Simulations Conducted on Lawrence Livermore Supercomputer
March 19, 2013 Researchers have performed record simulations using all 1,572,864 cores of Sequoia, the largest supercomputer in the world. Sequoia, based on IBM BlueGene/Q architecture, is the first machine to ... > full story -
Computer Models Show How Deep Carbon Could Return to Earth's Surface
March 18, 2013 Computer simulations of water under extreme pressure are helping geochemists understand how carbon might be recycled from hundreds of miles below the Earth's ... > full story -
Famous Supernova Reveals Clues About Crucial Cosmic Distance Markers
March 18, 2013 A new study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory points to the origin of a famous supernova. This supernova, discovered in 1604 by Johannes Kepler, belongs to an important class of ... > full story -
Hubble Gazes on One Ring to Rule Them All
March 18, 2013 Galaxies can take many forms -- elliptical blobs, swirling spiral arms, bulges, and disks are all known components of the wide range of galaxies we have observed using telescopes like the NASA/ESA ... > full story -
Ocean Plankton Sponge Up Nearly Twice the Carbon Currently Assumed
March 17, 2013 Models of carbon dioxide in the world's oceans need to be revised, according to new work. Trillions of plankton near the surface of warm waters are far more carbon-rich than has long been thought, ... > full story -
A Youthful 'Star Wreck': Youngest-Known Supernova Remnants in Our Milky Way Galaxy
March 15, 2013 While performing an extensive X-ray survey of our galaxy's central regions, NASA's Swift satellite has uncovered the previously unknown remains of a shattered star. Designated G306.3.9 after the ... > full story -
Life Deep Within Oceanic Crust Sustained by Energy from Interior of Earth
March 14, 2013 The Earth's oceanic crust covers an enormous expanse, and is mostly buried beneath a thick layer of mud that cuts it off from the surface world. Scientists now document life deep within the oceanic ... > full story -
Distant Planetary System Is a Super-Sized Solar System
March 14, 2013 Astronomers have made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-like planet beyond our Solar System. A spectrum reveals that the carbon to oxygen ratio is consistent with the ... > full story -
Chemical Chameleon Tamed: Researchers Give Floppy Molecule a Structure Through Solvent Effects
March 14, 2013 How you get the chameleon of the molecules to settle on a particular "look" has been discovered by chemists in Germany. The molecule CH5+ is normally not to be described by a single rigid structure, ... > full story
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