Plasma plumes help shield Earth from damaging solar storms
Plasma plumes help shield Earth from damaging solar storms

NASA images used in a photo composite.Credit: Christine Daniloff/MITEarth’s magnetic field, or magnetosphere, stretches from the planet’s core out into space, where it meets the solar wind, a stream o…

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08 Mar 2014


Icy wreckage discovered in nearby planetary system
Icy wreckage discovered in nearby planetary system

This artist’s concept illustrates the preferred model for explaining ALMA observations of Beta Pictoris. At the outer fringes of the system, the gravitational influence of a hypothetical giant planet …

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07 Mar 2014


Mystery of planet-forming disks explained by magnetism
Mystery of planet-forming disks explained by magnetism

Magnetic loops carry gas and dust above disks of planet-forming material circling stars, as shown in this artist’s conception.Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechAstronomers say that magnetic storms in the gas or…

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07 Mar 2014


Father's age tied to higher rates of psychiatric, academic problems in kids
Father's age tied to higher rates of psychiatric, academic problems in kids

When compared to a child born to a 24-year-old father, a child born to a 45-year-old father is 3.5 times more likely to have autism, 13 times more likely to have ADHD, two times more likely to have a …

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27 Feb 2014


Technique allows for radiation-free detection of tumors, study finds
Technique allows for radiation-free detection of tumors, study finds

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford have developed a way to scan young cancer patients’ bodies for tumors without exposing them to…

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23 Feb 2014


What is Super Bowl?
What is Super Bowl?

The Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL), the highest level of professional American football in the United States, culminating a season that begins in the …

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31 Jan 2014

What they look like under the helmets

When they approved several Grammys in silence from underneath their trademark robot headgears, Daft Criminal drew in fairly a couple of queries. But which is truly under all that metallic and glass?Da…

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31 Jan 2014
 
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