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NASA’s Mars Rover to Zap Rocks With Laser

A rock-zapping laser instrument on NASA’s next Mars rover has roots in a demonstration that Roger Wiens saw 13 years ago in a colleague’s room at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.The Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on the … Continue reading

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A Never-Before-Seen Signal from the Dark Epoch of the Universe

Bowman and Alan Rogers of Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed a small-scale radio astronomy experiment designed to detect a never-before-seen signal from the early universe during this period of time, a development that has the potential to revolutionize the understanding … Continue reading

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New Planet in Planetary System Very Similar to Earth

An international team of astronomers has discovered and imaged a fourth giant planet outside our solar system, a discovery that further strengthens the remarkable resemblances between a distant planetary system and our own.The research is published Dec. 8 in the … Continue reading

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Early Universe Was a Liquid

In an experiment to collide lead nuclei together at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider physicists from the ALICE detector team including researchers from the University of Birmingham have discovered that the very early Universe was not only very hot and dense … Continue reading

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