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  Excited, but Cold: Scientists Unveil the Secret of a Reaction for Prebiotic Synthesis of Organic Matter

  June 24, 2013 — How is it that a complex organism evolves from a pile of dead matter? How can lifeless materials become organic molecules that are the bricks of animals and plants? Scientists have been trying to ... > full story
• Cosmic Rays
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  How Did a Third Radiation Belt Appear in the Earth's Upper Atmosphere?

  June 20, 2013 — How did a third radiation belt appear in the Earth's upper atmosphere, and then almost completely ... > full story
• Optics
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  Particle Accelerator That Can Fit on a Tabletop Opens New Chapter for Science Research

  June 20, 2013 — The laser plasma accelerator has accelerated about half a billion electrons to 2 gigaelectronvolts over a distance of about 1 inch. It's a downsizing of a factor of approximately 10,000, and marks a ... > full story
• Black Holes
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  Dusty Surprise Around Giant Black Hole

  June 20, 2013 — ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer has gathered the most detailed observations ever of the dust around the huge black hole at the centre of an active galaxy. Rather than finding all of ... > full story
• Moon
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  Metamorphosis of Moon's Water Ice Explained

  June 19, 2013 — Using data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, scientists believe they have solved a mystery from one of the solar system's coldest regions -- a permanently shadowed crater on ... > full story
• Medical Imaging
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  New Technology Reduces, Controls CT Radiation Exposure in Children: CT Scan Radiation Reduced by 37 Percent

  June 19, 2013 — Patients at certain hospitals are being exposed to significantly less radiation during CT scans because of new technology that allows doctors to more tightly control radiation doses. The ... > full story
• NASA
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  The Turbulent, High-Energy Sky Is Keeping NuSTAR Busy

  June 18, 2013 — NuSTAR has been busy studying the most energetic phenomena in the universe. Recently, a few high-energy events have sprung up, akin to "things that go bump in the night." When one telescope catches a ... > full story
• Black Holes
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  Mystery of X-Ray Light from Black Holes Solved

  June 14, 2013 — Astrophysicists using high-powered computer simulartions demonstrate that gas spiraling toward a black hole inevitably results in X-ray ... > full story
• Stars
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  First Evidence of a New Phase in Neutron Stars

  June 13, 2013 — The nuclear ‘pasta’, called as such due its similarity to the Italian food, limits the period of rotation of pulsars, and astronomers have detected the first evidence of existence of a ... > full story
• Black Holes
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  NASA's Chandra Turns Up Black Hole Bonanza in Galaxy Next Door

  June 12, 2013 — Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered an unprecedented bonanza of black holes in the Andromeda Galaxy, one of the nearest galaxies to the Milky Way. Using more ... > full story

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