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This Picture of the Week shows the colorful globular cluster NGC 2108. The cluster is…
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Rice University researchers have found that fracture-resistant “rebar graphene” is more than twice as tough…
Researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and collaborators have identified a way to…
GW170817 is the name given to a gravitational wave signal seen by the LIGO and…
When NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launches into space from the Kennedy Space Center, it will…
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Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have made…
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Despite over a century of intense study, we still know very little about the people…
Astronomers have identified a group of planets outside our solar system where the same chemical…