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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Redux
Jupiter's famed Great Red Spot, the strongest storm in the solar system, has a doppelganger. First formed in 2000, this newest storm, officially called Oval BA and about half the size of the Great Red...
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Scientists Transform Acids Into Bases, Defying Chemistry Rules
pH Test Paper Wikimedia Commons If you took high school chemistry, you probably did a simple experiment in which you dipped pH test paper into beakers bearing various liquids and watched the strip...
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World's Most Powerful X-Ray Laser Super-Heats Aluminum Foil to 3.6 Million...
SLAC Chamber This photograph shows the interior of a Linac Coherent Light Source SXR experimental chamber, set up for an investigation to create and measure a form of extreme, 2-million-degree matter...
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Methane Is Scarce, But That Doesn't Mean There's No Life On Mars
Curiosity Self-Portrait The rover used its hand lens imager to take 55 high-resolution images, which engineers stitched together into this self-portrait. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems...
View ArticleJupiter’s Great Red Spot Redux
Jupiters famed Great Red Spot, the strongest storm in the solar system, has a doppelganger. First formed in 2000, this newest storm, officially called Oval BA and about half…
View ArticleScientists Transform Acids Into Bases, Defying Chemistry Rules
If you took high school chemistry, you probably did a simple experiment in which you dipped pH test paper into beakers bearing various liquids and watched the strip change…
View ArticleWorld's Most Powerful X-Ray Laser Super-Heats Aluminum Foil to 3.6 Million...
In two separate studies, the world’s most powerful X-ray laser has been used to build the first atomic X-ray laser pulse, as well as to superheat and control a clump of…
View ArticleMethane Is Scarce, But That Doesn't Mean There's No Life On Mars
Finding methane on another world is like finding breadcrumbs on a trail--it's a telling clue, a detail that gives reason to ask more questions and maybe find some answers,…
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