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Month: January 2012
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Homeland Security watches Twitter, social media
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s command center routinely monitors dozens of popular websites, including…
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Homeland Security watches Twitter, social media
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s command center routinely monitors dozens of popular websites, including…
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Scientists predict the next big thing in particle physics: Supersymmetry
A better understanding of the universe will be the outgrowth of the discovery of the…
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Why do dew drops do what they do on leaves?
Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore once wrote, “Let your life lightly dance on the edges…
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Starving galaxies revealed
Astronomers using the partially completed ALMA observatory have found compelling evidence for how star-forming galaxies…
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A wealth of habitable planets in the Milky Way
Six years of observations of millions of stars now show how common it is for…
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Hubble zooms in on double nucleus in Andromeda galaxy
A new Hubble Space Telescope image centers on the 100-million-solar-mass black hole at the hub…
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Astronomers discover origin of thermonuclear supernova
Astronomers recently discovered the solution to a long-standing fundamental problem of astrophysics: what produces thermonuclear,…
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Planet population is plentiful: Planets around stars are the rule rather than the exception
Astronomers have used the technique of gravitational microlensing to measure how common planets are in…