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Life in the Universe: Foundations of Carbon-Based Life Leave Little Room for Error
March 13, 2013 Life as we know it is based upon the elements of carbon and oxygen. Now a team of physicists is looking at the conditions necessary to the formation of those two elements in the universe. They've ... > full story -
New Player in Electron Field Emitter Technology Makes for Better Imaging and Communications
March 8, 2013 Scientists have built a practical, high-efficiency nanostructured electron source. This new, patent-pending technology could lead to improved microwave communications and radar, and more notably to ... > full story -
The Future of Ion Traps: Technology Will Continue to Be Leader in Development of Quantum Computing Architectures
March 7, 2013 Scientists speculate on ion trap technology as a scalable option for quantum information ... > full storyMore: -
Long Predicted Atomic Collapse State Observed in Graphene
March 7, 2013 Seventy years ago theorists predicted superlarge nuclei would exhibit a quantum-mechanical phenomenon known as "atomic collapse." Recently materials scientists calculated that highly-charged ... > full story -
Probing Extreme Matter Through Observations of Neutron Stars
March 6, 2013 Neutron stars, the ultra-dense cores left behind after massive stars collapse, contain the densest matter known in the Universe outside of a black hole. New results have provided one of the most ... > full story -
Working at the Extreme Edge of Cosmic Ice
March 4, 2013 Behind locked doors, in a lab built like a bomb shelter, Perry Gerakines makes something ordinary yet truly alien: ice. This isn't the ice of snowflakes or ice cubes. No, this ice needs such intense ... > full story -
NASA's Van Allen Probes Reveal a New Radiation Belt Around Earth
February 28, 2013 NASA's Van Allen Probes mission has discovered a previously unknown third radiation belt around Earth, revealing the existence of unexpected structures and processes within these hazardous regions of ... > full story -
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Breakthrough in Sight for Cataract Treatment
February 28, 2013 Scientists have made a discovery about the shape of the eye that could boost the effectiveness of human-made lenses used in cataract ... > full story -
Fermi's Motion Produces a Study in Spirograph
February 27, 2013 NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbits our planet every 95 minutes, building up increasingly deeper views of the universe with every circuit. Its wide-eyed Large Area Telescope sweeps across ... > full story -
NASA's NuSTAR Helps Solve Riddle of Black Hole Spin
February 27, 2013 Two X-ray space observatories, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton, have teamed up to measure definitively, for the first time, the spin ... > full story
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