Basics: A One-Way Trip to Mars? Many Would Sign Up

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Would-be Mars pilgrims must count on living, and dying, some 140 million miles from Earth. Nevertheless, there is demand for one-way tickets.















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Horsehead Nebula Space Astronomy iPad Case

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This beautiful astronomy photograph from NASA and ESA shows an infrared view of the Horsehead Nebula, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in its 23rd year in orbit. This area is in the constellation of Orion, and the Horsehead Nebula is also known as Barnard 33. In this image the gas clouds have a pale, ghostly appearance, with brightly shining stars in the background. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)

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Mars, Observed

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Mars has excited imaginations at least since the Romans named it and people have been thinking and writing about it for centuries, in speeches, fiction, poetry, songs, even cartoons.















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Understanding natural compounds

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Antibiotic-resistant germs, dangerous viruses, cancer: unsolved medical problems require new and better drugs. Nature can provide the inspiration

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(Stronger) Signs of Life on Mars

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Scientists have concluded that at least some of the planet must have been habitable long ago.















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Looking to Mars to Help Understand Changing Climates

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Mars is a frigid desert, suggesting that the mother of all climate changes happened there, about four billion years ago. The question that haunts planetary scientists is why? And could it happen here?















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First Person: Covering Mars Opened a New World

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In 1965, John Noble Wilford made the cover of Time with his article about the photographs that the U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 had taken of the planet.



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The Helix Nebula Poster

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Love and hate in Israel and Palestine

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Not long after the Sept. 11 attacks, a Newsweek cover story famously purported to explain "why they hate us," they being militant Muslim extremists. But there might be a problem with that thinking. According to a new study, it's not hatred of outsiders that motivates opposing sides in a conflict. To some extent, it's love for each other.

Psychologists have known for quite a while now that we interpret others' actions rather differently than our own, even if they're the very same actions. There's a simple reason for that difference, variously called the fundamental attribution error and correspondence...

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Granular model explains unusual behavior in sand

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From a mechanical perspective, granular materials are stuck between a rock and a fluid place, with behavior resembling

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Europe to press ahead on new rocket

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Research ministers approve the development of a new Ariane rocket for Europe, with pledges of 5.924bn euros for space programmes. 
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Wanderers

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Rotating nanotube motors offer glimpse of future nanodevices

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As one of the simplest and tiniest of all motors, a double-walled carbon nanotube (DWCNT) with a rotating inner tube and fixed outer tube may one day play a major role in a variety of future nanodevices. In a new study, researchers have studied the inner tube rotational behavior of a DWCNT motor whose motion is induced by a relatively high uniform temperature.



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Cosmic Orion Nebula Acoustic Guitar Wall Skins

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Space image of the Orion Nebula on the shape of an acoustic guitar.

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Dwarf Galaxy Holmberg IX iPad Mini Covers

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Dwarf Galaxy Holmberg IX iPad Mini Covers

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"This loose collection of stars is actually a dwarf irregular galaxy, called Holmberg IX. It resides just off the outer edge of M81, a large spiral galaxy in Ursa Major. This image was taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys in early 2006. Holmberg IX is of the so-called Magellanic type of galaxy, as its size and irregularity in structure are similar to the Small Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor to our own Milky Way. Holmberg IX was first discovered by astronomer Sidney van den Bergh in 1959, and cataloged as DDO 66. The galaxy received its "Holmberg IX" naming when it was discussed in Eric Holmberg's study of groups of galaxies ten years later. It is suspected that the dwarf galaxy was created as a result of a galactic interaction between M81 and neighboring galaxy M82."

(qtd. from Hubblesite.org NewsCenter release STScI-2008-02)

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

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New technique allows low-cost creation of 3-D nanostructures

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Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new lithography technique that uses nanoscale spheres to create three-dimensional (3-D) structures with biomedical, electronic and photonic applications. The new technique is significantly less expensive than conventional methods and does not rely on stacking two-dimensional (2-D) patterns to create 3-D structures.



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Jupiter’s bands of bronze

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Space Science Image of the Week: bands of stormy clouds on Jupiter were captured by Cassini when it flew past the gas giant in December 2000

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Scientists get to the heart of fool’s gold as a solar material

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As the installation of photovoltaic solar cells continues to accelerate, scientists are looking for inexpensive materials beyond the

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Star birth in Carina Nebula from Hubble's WFC3 det Posters

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Carina Nebula in Argo Navis constellation Sticker

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Carina Nebula in Argo Navis constellation Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series Hubble's view of the Carina Nebula shows star birth in a new level of detail. The fantasy-like landscape of the nebula is sculpted by the action of outflowing winds and scorching ultraviolet radiation from the monster stars that inhabit this inferno. In the process, these stars are shredding the surrounding material that is the last vestige of the giant cloud from which the stars were born. The immense nebula is an estimated 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina the Keel (of the old southern constellation Argo Navis, the ship of Jason and the Argonauts, from Greek mythology).
The original image is a mosaic of the Carina Nebula assembled from 48 frames taken with Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. The Hubble images were taken in the light of ionized hydrogen. Colour information was added with data taken at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Red corresponds to sulfur, green to hydrogen, and blue to oxygen emission.

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Eye in Orion Black Handle Acoustic Guitar Wall Sticker

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