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Watch: Scientists virtually de-froze Antarctica

When asked to picture Antarctica, most people (if not all) find themselves picturing a really big ice sheet. The world’s biggest ice sheet, to be more precise. The video above, pieced together by the...

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Picture of the Day: The North-American nebula

Here’s a truly gorgeous image by astrophotographer Mick Hyde, a mosaic of NGC 7000 (the North American nebula) and the Pelican nebula (IC 5070). The structure on the upper left side is the North...

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Monster Saturn storm ate its own tail

Since gas giants are made up of, well, gas, it’s easy for giant storms to form around them. Saturn and Jupiter are always peppered with monster storms that ravage the planets. They don’t do any actual...

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Graphene and Semiconductors: Smaller, Cheaper, Better

Mobile phones that bend, self-powered nanodevices, new and improved solar cell technology and windows that generate electricity are but a few of the potential products from the union of semiconductors...

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The Road Of The Future [Infographic]

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New Neptune moon discovered by astronomers

While astronomers tend to focus on the Universe beyond our Solar System, it seems that there are still secrets hidden in our own neighborhood. Neptune has another moon that no one knew about until now....

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NASA’s Plans Through 2030: Mars, the Moon, and Asteroids [Infographic]

If there’s one agency that’s used to thinking ahead, that’s NASA. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has a lot of plans for the next two decades. According to an illustration created by...

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The Sun Has a Giant “Hole,” Spacecraft Reveals

NASA has announced that a space telescope aiming at the Sun has spotted a giant hole in the solar atmosphere. The dark spot covers about a quarter of our star, according to NASA. The coronal hole over...

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Picture of the Day: Double moons

A new photograph released by NASA presents two of Saturn’s moons, Mimas and Pandora, in the same shot. The picture was taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and stresses the difference between the two...

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Picture of the Day: Monster Saturn Storm

Cassini has been circling Saturn for years, but it’s still revealing spectacular things about the planet. Violent weather provides a great spectacle on Earth, as long as it doesn’t actually destroy...

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1 in 4 US Citizens Think the Sun Orbits Earth

According to the conclusions of a new study released by experts at the US National Science Foundation (NSF), it would appear that around a quarter of all people living in the United States are...

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