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  Environmental Fate: Industrial Nanomaterials Appear Vulnerable To Dispersal In Natural Environment

  December 19, 2006 — Laboratory experiments with a type of nanomaterial that has great promise for industrial use show significant potential for dispersal in aquatic environments -- especially when natural organic ... > full story
• Astrophysics
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  Giant Radio Telescope Imaging Could Make Dark Matter Visible

  December 14, 2006 — The stars and gas which are seen in galaxies account for only a few percent of the gravitating material in the Universe. Most of the rest has remained stubbornly invisible and is now thought to be ... > full story
• Space Telescopes
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  The Rise of a Giant: European Extremely Large Telescope Will Probe The Universe

  December 12, 2006 — The future of European astronomy is poised to enter a new era of discovery with the decision announced by ESO's governing body to proceed with detailed studies for the European Extremely Large ... > full story
• Astrophysics
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  Hubble Finds Evidence For Dark Energy In The Young Universe

  November 16, 2006 — Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that dark energy is not a new constituent of space, but rather has been present for most of the universe's history. Dark energy is a ... > full story
• Alcoholism
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  Moderate Drinking May Boost Memory, Study Suggests

  October 25, 2006 — In the long run, a drink or two a day may be good for the brain. Researchers found that moderate amounts of alcohol -- amounts equivalent to a couple of drinks a day for a human -- improved the ... > full story
• Uranus
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  Hubble Discovers Dark Cloud In The Atmosphere Of Uranus

  October 1, 2006 — Just as we near the end of the hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean, winds whirl and clouds churn 2 billion miles away in the atmosphere of Uranus, forming a dark vortex large enough to engulf ... > full story
• Dark Matter
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  Galaxies
   

  How Fast Does Dark Matter Fall?

  September 30, 2006 — Dark matter is mysterious stuff. Scientists don't really know much about it at all, other than the fact that there seems to be a lot of it in the universe. Thanks to a new analysis by physicists at ... > full story
• Photography
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  Video Cameras Learn From Insect Eyes

  September 1, 2006 — The bane of all wedding videos -- that picture of the bride in front of the window where her face is so dark that you can't see the features -- may soon be a thing of the past. By mimicking how ... > full story
• Dark Matter
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  NASA Finds Direct Proof Of Dark Matter

  August 21, 2006 — Dark matter and normal matter have been wrenched apart by the tremendous collision of two large clusters of galaxies. The discovery, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, gives ... > full story
• Galaxies
  Astrophysics
  Stars
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  Dark Matter
  Extrasolar Planets
   
  

  Astronomers Discover Rapidly Forming, Large Proto-Disc Galaxies 3 Billion Years After Big Bang

  August 19, 2006 — Astronomers have discovered large disc galaxies akin to our Milky Way that must have formed on a rapid time scale, only 3 billion years after the Big Bang. In one of these systems, the combination of ... > full story

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