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TechnologyMedusoid: Artificial Jellyfish Made From Rat Heart Cells and Silicone
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Caltech and Harvard Bioengineers Create Artificial Jellyfish that Swims
This video shows the launch and swimming of a tissue-engineered jellyfish, or "Medusoid," compared to real jellyfis... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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10 September 2012
Curiosity on the Move
Image Credit: NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ Univ. of Arizona, HiRise-LPL
Curiosity is on the move across Mars -- but where is it going? The car-sized rover's pa... |
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AstronomyPictures of Mars
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Odyssey Views A Surface Changed by Floods:
Channels scoured by ancient outbursts of flood waters are seen in this orbital view from Odyssey's Thermal Emission Imaging System.The channels are bil... |
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5 February 2013
Mars: Shadow at Point Lake
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS, Mastcam
What if you saw your shadow on Mars and it wasn't human? Then you might be the robotic Curiosity ro... |
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AstronomyThe Moons of Saturn
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Saturn has over 62 known moons. Saturn's moons range in size from very small moons, referred to as 'moonlets' which are less than a kilometer in diameter, to it's largest moon Tita... |
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17 January 2013
Cas A: Optical and X-ray
Image Credit: X-ray - NASA, JPL-Caltech, NuSTAR; Optical - Ken Crawford (Rancho Del Sol Obs.)
The aftermath of a cosmic cataclysm, supernova remnant Cass... |
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13 February 2013
Infrared Orion from WISE
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, UCLA
The Great Nebula in Orion is a intriguing place. Visible to the unaided eye, it appears as a small fuzzy patch in... |
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4 December 2012
In the Center of Saturn's North Polar Vortex
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
What's happening at the north pole of Saturn? A vortex of strange an... |
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24 February 2013
M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy in Dust and Stars
Image Credit: N. Scoville (Caltech), T. Rector (U. Alaska, NOAO) et al., Hubble Heritage Team, NASA
The Whirlpool Galaxy is a classic... |
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25 January 2013
Matijevic Hill Panorama
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizo na State U.
On January 25 (UT) 2004, the Opportunity rover fell to Mars, making today the 9th anniversary of i... |
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19 March 2013
GRAIL Maps the Moon's Gravity
Image Credit & Copyright: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MIT, GSFC
How did the Moon form? To help find out, NASA launched the twin Gravity Recovery and I... |
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22 December 2012
Saturn at Night
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Space Science Institute, Cassini Imaging Team
Splendors seldom seen are revealed in this glorious picture from Saturn's sha... |
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2 October 2012
An Ancient Stream Bank on Mars
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS
Fresh evidence of an ancient stream has been found on Mars. The robotic rover Curiosity has run across unusual... |
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20 February 2013
Saturn's Hexagon and Rings
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Why would clouds form a hexagon on Saturn? Nobody is sure. Originally discovered during th... |
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26 December 2012
Makemake of the Outer Solar System
Illustration Credit: European Southern Observatory
Makemake is one of the largest objects known in the outer Solar System. Pronounced MAH-kay... |
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29 December 2012
Zeta Oph: Runaway Star
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Spitzer Space Telescope
Like a ship plowing through cosmic seas, runaway star Zeta Ophiuchi produces the arcing interstel... |
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ConspiracyExcerp: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
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Former Head Of Star Wars Program Says Cheney Main 9/11 Suspect
Official version of events a conspiracy theory, says drills were cover for attacks
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.... |
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22 February 2013
Curiosity Self-Portrait Panorama
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS - Panorama by Andrew Bodrov
This remarkable self-portrait of NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover includes a s... |
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19 September 2012
Leaving Vesta
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, UCLA, MPS, DLR, IDA
Next stop: Ceres. Last week the robotic Dawn spacecraft ended its year-long mission to asteroid Vesta, becomi... |
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AstronomySugar Found In Space: A Sign of Life?
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simple sugar molecules floating in the gas around a star some 400 light-years away, suggesting the possibility of life on other planets.
The molecules that the team detected in space are the simplest... |
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23 March 2013
Infrared Portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud
Credit: ESA / NASA / JPL-Caltech / STScI
Cosmic dust clouds ripple across this infrared portrait of our Milky Way's satellite g... |
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27 December 2012
Curiosity Rover at Rocknest on Mars
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS, MAHLI
What's in this smooth soil on Mars? In late October, NASA's robotic Curiosity rover st... |
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12 March 2013
Spin up of a Supermassive Black Hole
Illustration Credit: Robert Hurt, NASA/JPL-Caltech
How fast can a black hole spin? If any object made of regular matter spins too fast -- it br... |
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2 November 2012
The Black Hole in the Milky Way
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, NuSTAR project
At the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, a mere 27,000 light-years away, lies a black hole with 4 mi... |
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