Hubble captures Deep Impact's collision
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured the dramatic effects of the collision early July 4 between a 370-kilogram projectile released by the Deep Impact spacecraft and comet 9P/Tempel 1.
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Trees, vines and nets - Microbial evolution changes its face
EBI researchers have changed our view of 4 billion years of microbial evolution. Christos Ouzounis and colleagues have gained intriguing quantitative insights into how gene families are transferred, not only 'vertically' ...
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HP researchers propose new path to optical quantum computing
Researchers from HP Laboratories in Bristol, UK, have proposed an approach to distributed optical quantum computing with a technique that is highly efficient, flexible and scalable.
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An Ear For Robots: New Approach
A fundamentally new approach to computer identification of words was been suggested by Russian scientists. With its help, people will be able to give orders even to the most primitive cellular phones.
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First XMM-Newton images of impact
Images of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 taken by the Optical Monitor on ESA's XMM-Newton observatory, from two minutes before impact and until seven minutes after impact. The first two images were taken just before impact, and in the ...
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How fish hear and make sounds at same time
Cornell University researchers have learned how a common fish found along the West Coast can hum and hear outside sounds at the same time.
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Impact on Comet 9P/Tempel 1: Update, first European images
These are the first pictures of the impact received by European observers of the Deep Impact encounter. They were taken by the Faulkes Telescope in Maui, Hawaii (Faulkes Telescope North), which was ideally placed to observe ...
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Dissolved manganese may pose risk
Regular showers could pose a health risk and even result in brain damage, according to U.S. researchers.
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Deep Impact's Impactor Meets Tempel 1 Comet (first picture)
The above image from NASA TV is a view from Deep Impact's flyby showing the impactor colliding with comet Tempel 1.
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