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Computer simulations show soap in a new light
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31 August 2010 |
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A team from Temple University uses the Lincoln supercomputer at the University of Illinois' National Centre for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to model surfactants. Surfactants are used in common household products like detergents and shampoo.... more |
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Branching morphogenesis
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24 August 2010 |
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Forget about staring at data on a computer screen; try walking through those statistics and touching them. With this illustration of the forces lung cells exert as they form capillaries, scientists and museum-goers can do just that. more |
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The heart as art
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16 August 2010 |
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The heart muscle of a Zebrafish has the remarkable ability to repair itself after injury. more |
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Spiral coil
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6 August 2010 |
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Salps are planktonic filter-feeders — each one a tireless vacuum continuously clearing phytoplankton cells from the sea by filtering water through a mucus net as it swims. more |
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A light in the sky
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12 July 2010 |
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa spacecraft streaked across the sky like a saber of light through the clouds as it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over the Woomera Test Range in Australia on 13 June. In Kingoonya, the spacecraft’s... more |
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All-American salute
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7 July 2010 |
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Astronaut John W Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, leaps from the lunar surface as he salutes the United States flag at the Descartes landing site during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity. more |
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The dark side of carbon
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28 June 2010 |
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As interest in Earth's changing climate heats up, a tiny dark particle is stepping into the limelight: black carbon. more |
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Lagoons of New Caledonia
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22 June 2010 |
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In 2008, UNESCO added the Lagoons of New Caledonia to the World Heritage Site list. The Lagoons comprise six marine clusters that represent the main diversity of coral reefs and associated ecosystems in the French Pacific Ocean archipelago of New... more |
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Glowing bacteria light up ocean
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15 June 2010 |
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This photo shows a petri dish swabbed with a culture of bioluminescent marine bacteria. The bacteria give off light using a process known as quorum sensing that is controlled by four small RNA molecules within each of them. more |
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Hyundai's giant vuvuzela
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7 June 2010 |
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In keeping with Hyundai’s “Bring the Gees” message, their agency The Jupiter Drawing Room has constructed this massive Vuvuzela on the unfinished bridge in Cape Town. Football Fever is here people! more |
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Reisman's self-portrait
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31 May 2010 |
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Nasa astronaut Garrett Reisman takes a self-portrait in his visor while participating in the first of three spacewalks scheduled for the Atlantis crew and their Expedition 23 hosts. more |
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Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull Volcano in infrared
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17 May 2010 |
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On Saturday, 17 April 2010, the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) instrument aboard Nasa's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) spacecraft obtained this false-colour infrared image of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano. more |
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Cumulonimbus cloud over Africa
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26 April 2010 |
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High above the African continent, tall, dense cumulonimbus clouds, meaning 'column rain' in Latin, are the result of atmospheric instability. more |
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Sossusvlei in Namibia
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19 April 2010 |
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This image of Sossusvlei in Namibia was taken by South Africa’s Sumbandila Satellite, specifically, the main on-board payload, a F#4 linescan imager (refractive design) with 400 mm focal length, and resultant GSD of 6,25 m from an orbit height of... more |
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