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NASA Findings Suggest Jets Bursting From Martian Ice Cap
August 17, 2006 Every spring brings violent eruptions to the south polar ice cap of Mars, according to researchers interpreting new observations by NASA's Mars Odyssey ... > full story -
Cassini Finds Lakes On Titan's Arctic Region
July 28, 2006 NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found lakes on Saturn's moon Titan. The lakes are most likely the source of hydrocarbon smog in the frigid moon's atmosphere. Finding the source of the complex soup of ... > full story -
Skin Cancer Rare -- But More Deadly -- In People With Darker Skin
July 27, 2006 New University of Cincinnati research shows that dark-skinned people -- commonly thought to be "immune" to most skin cancers -- are more likely than whites to die from skin cancer and its related ... > full story -
Rice Scientists Unveil 'Nanoegg'
July 21, 2006 Researchers at Rice University's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) have unveiled the "nanoegg," the latest addition to their family ultrasmall, light-focusing particles. A cousin of the versatile ... > full story -
Rare Blob Unveiled: Evidence For Hydrogen Gas Falling Onto A Dark Matter Clump?
July 3, 2006 ESO's VLT has helped scientists to discover a large primordial 'blob', more than 10 billion light-years away. The most likely scenario to account for its existence and properties is that it ... > full story -
New Fruit Fly Protein Illuminates Circadian Response To Light
June 29, 2006 Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified a new protein required for the circadian response to light in fruit flies. The discovery of this protein -- named JET ... > full story -
Continuous Search Begun For Gravitational Waves
June 28, 2006 The joint German-British Gravitational Wave Detector GEO600 has now entered an 18-month run of continuous measurement. Researchers are optimistic that they will be able to observe a never before seen ... > full story -
XMM-Newton Spots The Greatest Of Great Balls Of Fire
June 13, 2006 Thanks to data from ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray satellite, a team of international scientists found a comet-like ball of gas over a thousand million times the mass of the sun hurling through a distant ... > full story -
Galaxy Evolution In Cyber Universe Matches Astronomical Observations In Fine Detail
June 12, 2006 Scientists at the University of Chicago have bolstered the case for a popular scenario of the big bang theory that neatly explains the arrangement of galaxies throughout the universe. Their ... > full story -
Variable Physical Laws
June 9, 2006 Physical quantities such as the speed of light are believed to be the same independent of where and when they appear in the universe. But imagine that these fundamental constants â�" ... > full story
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