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Megopolis Megopolis, the nation's capital, is also its cultural, financial, and commercial center. The City Library near Auklanda was the first public library opened in the Koana Islands. Newtown is...
View ArticleAug 14, 2013
Perseids Coming At Ya I hope you had a chance to see the meteors streaking across the sky these past few nights (and mornings). This year's show was strong with a good rate under moonless skies. Here...
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High-speed film showing the aftermath of a projectile hitting a simulated planetary surface in the gun's vacuum chamber. Video courtesy Peter Schultz.
View ArticleAug 18, 2013
Earth From Saturn In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn's rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. It is...
View ArticleAug 17, 2013
Iris Nebula This cloud of glowing gas is the Iris nebula, as seen in infrared light by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The main cluster of stars within the nebula is called NGC 7023. It lies 1,300...
View ArticleAug 16, 2013
Comet Tempel 1 NASA's Stardust-NExT mission took this image of comet Tempel 1 at 8:39 p.m. PST (11:39 p.m. EST) on Feb 14, 2011. The comet was first visited by NASA's Deep Impact mission in 2005....
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Urban Policy Mobilities and Global Governance Issues Every week, more than one million people move from rural regions to cities. This massive shift – a relocation unlike anything in human history –...
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Ocean Acidification and Marine Ecosystems Increased quantities of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are generating higher concentrations of carbonic acid in the oceans, lowering the pH and dissolving...
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Tectonic Evolution of the Southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt The Central Asian Orogenic Belt – a mountainous 5.3 million square kilometer region that includes this region of Uzbekistan – is a twisted...
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Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation In 2002, a French doctor replaced a patient’s heart valve not by surgically opening the chest cavity, but by catheter, requiring only a small incision. This new...
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DNA Methylation Analysis and Missing Heritability DNA, the dogma goes, is the code of life, determining everything from hair color to our susceptibility to diseases. But many traits passed down from...
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Enhanced Visible Light Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production Hydrogen fuel cells have been “the next big thing” in energy for years, with proponents trumpeting their potential to drastically reduce our...
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Alkali Doped Iron Selenide Superconductors Superconductivity allows electrical current transmission with no resistance or loss of signal. Traditionally, this near-magical state could only be attained...
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Galileon Cosmology The universe is getting bigger, and it’s doing so at ever faster rates. One explanation is “dark energy,” but skeptics consider its invocation mildly unsatisfying; an alternative...
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