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  Scientists Discover Mineral-Making Secrets Potentially Useful for New Materials

  August 1, 2013 — Proteins have gotten most of the attention in studies of how organic materials control the initial step of making the first tiny crystals that organisms use to build structures that help them move ... > full story
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  When Galaxies Switch Off: Hubble's COSMOS Survey Solves 'Quenched' Galaxy Mystery

  August 1, 2013 — Some galaxies hit a point in their lives when their star formation is snuffed out, and they become "quenched". Quenched galaxies in the distant past appear to be much smaller than the quenched ... > full story
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  Under Leaden Skies: Where Heavy Metal Clouds the Stars

  August 1, 2013 — Astronomers have discovered two unusual stars with extremely high concentrations of lead in their ... > full story
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  NASA Technologist Makes Traveling to Hard-to-Reach Destinations Easier

  July 31, 2013 — Traveling to remote locations sometimes involves navigating through stop-and-go traffic, traversing long stretches of highway and maneuvering sharp turns and steep hills. The same can be said for ... > full story
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  New Explorer Mission Chooses the 'Just-Right' Orbit

  July 31, 2013 — Principal investigator George Ricker likes to call it the "Goldilocks orbit" -- it's not too close to Earth and her Moon, and it's not too far. In fact, it's just right. And as a result of this ... > full story
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  Figuring out Flow Dynamics

  July 31, 2013 — Scientists have been building models of turbulent flow. Recently, they developed a new and improved way of looking at the composition of turbulence near walls, the type of flow that dominates our ... > full story
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  Spitzer Discovers Young Stars With a 'Hula Hoop'

  July 31, 2013 — Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have spotted a young stellar system that "blinks" every 93 days. Called YLW 16A, the system likely consists of three developing stars, two of which ... > full story
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  NASA's Cassini Sees Forces Controlling Enceladus Jets

  July 31, 2013 — The intensity of the jets of water ice and organic particles that shoot out from Saturn's moon Enceladus depends on the moon's proximity to the ringed planet, according to data obtained by NASA's ... > full story
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  Nanomaterials: Sized-Up for Strength

  July 31, 2013 — Experiments and numerical simulations show that miniaturized ultra-small platinum cylinders weaken when their constituents are reduced in ... > full story
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  Smart Materials: Fused Liquid Marbles Show Their Strength

  July 31, 2013 — A superglue polymerisation strategy that fortifies encapsulated ‘liquid marble’ water droplets also strengthens their market ... > full story

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