Borrowing from pastry chefs, engineers create nanolayered composites

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Researchers have found a way to efficiently create composite materials containing hundreds of layers that are just atoms thick but span the full width of the material. The discovery could lead to easy-to-manufacture composites for optical devices, electronic systems, and high-tech materials.
via Science Daily

Space... the final frontier

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Fifty years ago Captain Kirk and the crew of the starship Enterprise began their journey into space -- the final frontier. Now, as the newest Star Trek film hits cinemas, the NASA/ESA Hubble space telescope is also exploring new frontiers, observing distant galaxies in the galaxy cluster Abell S1063 as part of the Frontier Fields program.
via Science Daily
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Trilobites: How Mountains Obscured by Venus’s Clouds Reveal Themselves

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Data from Europe’s Venus Express spacecraft has helped researchers better understand the hurricane-like winds that blast the second planet from the sun.
via New York Times

Trilobites: South African Telescope Spots 1,300 Unknown Galaxies

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The distant galaxies were recorded by a set of 16 antennas that will eventually be a part of the largest telescope ever built on Earth.
via New York Times

A new key to understanding molecular evolution in space

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Scientists have revealed temperature-dependent energy conversion of molecular hydrogen on ice surfaces, suggesting the need for a reconsideration of molecular evolution theory.
via Science Daily
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Galaxy Cluster Abell S1063 and Beyond

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Some 4 billion light-years away, galaxies of massive Abell S1063 cluster near the center of this sharp Hubble Space Telescope snapshot. But the fainter bluish arcs are magnified images of galaxies that lie far beyond Abell S1063. About twice as distant, their otherwise undetected light is magnified and distorted by the cluster's largely unseen gravitational mass, approximately 100 trillion times the mass of the Sun. Providing a tantalizing glimpse of galaxies in the early universe, the effect is known as gravitational lensing. A consequence of warped spacetime it was first predicted by Einstein a century ago. The Hubble image is part of the Frontier Fields program to explore the Final Frontier. Tomorrow's picture: pixels in space

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ExoMars/TGO hangout

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Join us on 26 July for a Google hangout with updates and Q&A with ESA experts and scientists focusing on the crucial milestones during the spacecraft's seven-month cruise to the Red Planet
via ESA Space Science
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