This radar image from the Cassini orbiter shows a thin strip of surface on Saturn's moon Titan. The yellow-hued terrain appears to be peppered with blue-tinted lakes and seas. However, these would not be much fun to splash ...
Space Exploration
Jan 11, 2016
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The San Andreas Fault system, which runs almost the entire length of California, is prone to shaking, causing about 10,000 minor earthquakes each year just in the southern California area.
Earth Sciences
Nov 11, 2015
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Could there be life on Saturn's large moon Titan? Asking the question forces astrobiologists and chemists to think carefully and creatively about the chemistry of life, and how it might be different on other worlds than it ...
Space Exploration
Oct 5, 2015
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Knowing how the weather will behave in the near future is indispensable for countless human endeavors.
Earth Sciences
Aug 21, 2015
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By happy coincidence and far from its native home in western Sumatra, titum arum, the world's smelliest bloom, flowered at Paignton Zoo in Devon and at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. It's a rare event, but not to ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 9, 2015
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With the successful restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), now operating at nearly twice its former collision energy, comes an enormous increase in the volume of data physicists must sift through to search for new discoveries. ...
Hardware
Jul 8, 2015
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A new NASA initiative is embracing a team approach to the problem of finding life on planets around other stars.
Astronomy
Apr 22, 2015
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Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the pioneering Huygens mission to Saturn's moon Titan, the first successful landing on an outer Solar System world.
Space Exploration
Jan 14, 2015
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Though a rose smells sweet no matter what it is called, Cornell's rare corpse plant stinks like rotting flesh in spite of its many names.
Plants & Animals
Nov 14, 2014
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Combining climate models and observations of the surface of Titan from the Cassini probe, a team from the AIM Astrophysics Laboratory (CNRS / CEA / Paris Diderot University) , in collaboration with researchers at the Paris ...
Space Exploration
Oct 23, 2014
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