To realize the next generation of devices for information processing based on new phenomena such as spintronics, multiferroics, magnetooptics, and magnonics, their constituent materials need to be developed. Recent rapid ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 17, 2017
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A recent NASA-funded study has shown how the hydrocarbon lakes and seas of Saturn's moon Titan might occasionally erupt with dramatic patches of bubbles.
Space Exploration
Mar 16, 2017
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Pluto has long been viewed as a distant, cold and mostly dead world, but the first spacecraft to pass by it last year revealed many surprises about this distant dwarf planet.
Space Exploration
Feb 23, 2017
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Researcher Pylin Sarobol explains an elegant process for ultrafine-grained ceramic coatings in a somewhat inelegant way: sub-micron particles splatting onto a surface.
Materials Science
Feb 22, 2017
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After a two-and-a-half-hour descent, the metallic, saucer-shaped spacecraft came to rest with a thud on a dark floodplain covered in cobbles of water ice, in temperatures hundreds of degrees below freezing. The alien probe ...
Space Exploration
Jan 11, 2017
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Floating high above the hydrocarbon lakes, wispy clouds have finally started to return to Titan's northern latitudes.
Space Exploration
Jan 4, 2017
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Consider it a cosmic carousel with countless rings up for grabs.
Space Exploration
Nov 30, 2016
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft watched clouds of methane moving across the far northern regions of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, on Oct. 29 and 30, 2016.
Space Exploration
Nov 7, 2016
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Although Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is surrounded by a thick, hazy atmosphere, Cornell astronomers have revealed that the moon's terrain features deep, steep-sided canyons filled with liquid hydrocarbons.
Space Exploration
Oct 31, 2016
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As southern winter solstice approaches in the Saturn system, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been revealing dramatic seasonal changes in the atmospheric temperature and composition of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
Space Exploration
Oct 21, 2016
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