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THREAD 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...
THREAD 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...
THREAD 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...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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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...
THREAD 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...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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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...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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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...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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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...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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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...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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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...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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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...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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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...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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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...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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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...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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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...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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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...
THREAD 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....
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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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...
THREAD 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...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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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...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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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...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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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...
THREAD AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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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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