This Hubble image shows NGC 4789A, a dwarf irregular galaxy in the constellation of Coma Berenices. It certainly lives up to its name—the stars that call this galaxy home are smeared out across the sky in an apparently ...
Astronomy
Nov 21, 2016
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The Multi-Slit Optimized Spectrometer (MOS) prototype instrument is an airborne sensor designed to demonstrate and validate the multislit concept for hyperspectral ocean color retrievals with real-world scenes. The instrument ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 21, 2016
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Are conservation investments and programs achieving their intended goals on U.S. rangelands? A recently published paper in Ecological Applications determined the answer is no, and outlined ways to improve their effectiveness ...
Ecology
Nov 21, 2016
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A team of Hokkaido University scientists has unraveled a 150-year-old mystery surrounding the surface melting of ice crystals in subzero environments by using an advanced optical microscope.
Condensed Matter
Nov 21, 2016
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Wafer-thin, scratch-proof films can generate a rainbow of colors using random metallic nanostructures.
Nanophysics
Nov 21, 2016
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The NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of a spate of fires in the Central Valley of California. They are not listed on the CAL FIRE website which makes careful note of wildfires across the state whether or ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 21, 2016
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After an unusually mild autumn, a weak La Nina system could bring more seasonal conditions to much of Indiana this winter, according to the latest long-range outlook from the Indiana State Climate Office based in the Department ...
Environment
Nov 21, 2016
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Metals travel forward in time at the Ion Accelerator Laboratory, a facility within Texas A&M University's Department of Nuclear Engineering and researchers within the department's Ion Beam Laboratory group are speeding up ...
Condensed Matter
Nov 21, 2016
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Cornell researchers have discovered a biological mechanism that helps convert nitrogen-based fertilizer into nitrous oxide, an ozone-depleting greenhouse gas. The paper was published online Nov. 17 in the Proceedings of the ...
Materials Science
Nov 21, 2016
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In this one second exposure photograph, the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft is seen launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with Expedition 50 crewmembers NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, ...
Space Exploration
Nov 21, 2016
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