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Do We Live in a Computer Simulation?
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| Topic: Robotics & A.I. |
12/11/12 |
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A team of physicists has come up with a potential test to determine whether or not the universe we live in might in fact be a computer simulation. |
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Crashing Waves Reveal Earth's Interior
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| Topic: Geology |
12/10/12 |
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A new technique could help scientists study structures beneath the Earth's surface by measuring tiny seismic waves created by ocean waves as they crash against the shore. |
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The Moon's Battered History
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
12/09/12 |
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Data from NASA's GRAIL mission indicates that in the first billion years of formation, the Moon may have endured much more massive impacts than previously thought. |
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New NASA Mars Rover to Launch in 2020
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| Topic: Mars |
12/09/12 |
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NASA has announced a new multi-year program for Mars exploration. The plans include a new robotic science rover set to launch in 2020. |
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Opportunity Completes Circle of Matijevic Hill
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| Topic: Mars |
12/08/12 |
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NASA's long-lived Opporunity rover has completed its walkabout of a crater-rim site where observations from orbiting Mars spacecraft detected traces of clay minerals. |
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Ancient Caverns on Mars May Have Captured Floodwaters
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| Topic: Mars |
12/08/12 |
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Researchers have found evidence that water from catastrophic flood discharges 2 billion years ago may have been captured by extensive cavern systems on Mars. The findings could have implications in understanding the potential for life on ancient Mars. |
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Fracking Microbes
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
12/07/12 |
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A team of scientists has made a genetic analysis of microbes living deep inside a shale deposit and uncovered some unexpected surprises. |
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Titan is Icier Than Thought
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| Topic: Titan |
12/07/12 |
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A new analysis of data from Titan suggests that the moon's icy outer crust is twice as thick as scientists previously thought. Beneath this icy shell, which could be 200 kilometers thick, an ocean of liquid water is thought to exist. |
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The Long and the Short of Oil and Water
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
12/06/12 |
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Scientists have discovered that water transforms into a previously unknown structure between a liquid and a vapor when in contact with alcohol molecules containing long, only chains. The findings could have implications in understanding numerous biological processes. |
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Voyager 1 Encounters New Region in Deep Space
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
12/05/12 |
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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region at the far reaches of our solar system that scientists feel is the final area the spacecraft has to cross before reaching interstellar space. |
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