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  NASA Launching Experiment to Examine the Beginnings of the Universe

  May 21, 2013 — When did the first stars and galaxies form in the universe? How brightly did they burn their nuclear fuel? Scientists will seek to gain answers to these questions with the launch of the Cosmic ... > full story
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  The Pirate Ant: A New Species from the Philippines With a Bizarre Pigmentation Pattern

  May 21, 2013 — Scientists discovered and described a bizarre species of pirate ant. The new Cardiocondyla pirata has its name inspired by its strange pigmentation that consist of two eye-patch like dark stripes ... > full story
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  Nanoantennas Improve Infrared Sensing

  May 20, 2013 — Engineers have used a pattern of nanoantennas to develop a new way of turning infrared light into mechanical action, opening the door to more sensitive infrared cameras and more compact ... > full story
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  Engineered Microbes Grow in the Dark

  May 19, 2013 — Scientists have engineered a strain of photosynthetic cyanobacteria to grow without the need for ... > full story
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  World's Smallest Liquid Droplets Ever Made in the Lab, Experiment Suggests

  May 16, 2013 — Physicists may have created the smallest drops of liquid ever made in the lab. That possibility has been raised by the results of a recent experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest ... > full story
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  Galaxy's 'Burning Ring of Fire' Is Frenetic Region of Star Formation

  May 16, 2013 — Johnny Cash may have preferred this galaxy's burning ring of fire to the one he sang about falling into in his popular song. The "starburst ring" seen at center of a new image in red and yellow hues ... > full story
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  New Method Proposed for Detecting Gravitational Waves from Ends of Universe

  May 16, 2013 — A new window into the nature of the universe may be possible with a device proposed by scientists that would detect elusive gravity waves from the other end of the ... > full story
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  Artificial Forest for Solar Water-Splitting: First Fully Integrated Artificial Photosynthesis Nanosystem

  May 16, 2013 — Researchers have created the first fully integrated artificial photosynthesis nanosystem. While "artificial leaf" is the popular term for such a system, the key to this success was an "artificial ... > full story
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  South Africa's New Radio Telescope Reveals Giant Outbursts from Binary Star System

  May 16, 2013 — An international team of astronomers have reported the first scientific results from the Karoo Array Telescope (KAT-7) in South ... > full story
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  NASA Completes First Part of Webb Telescope's 'Eye Surgery' Operation

  May 15, 2013 — Much like the inside of an operating room, in the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., engineers worked meticulously to implant part of the eyes of the James Webb Space ... > full story

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