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Galactic Smash-Up Shows Where Dark Matter Goes
This new image of super-cluster Abell 2744 captures the wreckage of a collision between four smaller galaxy clusters. New data let astronomers map the positions of three different kinds of matter in...
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Proton Somersault Study Could Explain Why Matter Still Exists
For the first time, physicists have watched a single proton flip over on its axis. Aside from being a technical triumph, the measurement may eventually help determine why the universe contains more...
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Geeky Game Lets You Golf on Saturn’s Moons
We may someday learn that Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus is a comfortable home for microbial life swimming in subsurface oceans. But it already makes a great par 5. A small company called Diamond Sky...
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Snapshots of Asteroid That Buzzed Earth
Earth got a close shave Monday morning from an asteroid so small it was originally mistaken for space junk. The object, called 2011 MD, zipped 7,600 miles above Earth’s surface at about 1:15 p.m. EDT...
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Lady of the Rings: Chat With Saturn Surveyor Carolyn Porco
When Carolyn Porco started exploring the outer solar system, it was all about the rings. Her 1983 doctoral thesis at Caltech focused on shifting spokes in Saturn’s rings discovered by the Voyager...
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The Cutting-Edge Physics of Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock, famous for his deceptively random-seeming drip paintings, took advantage of certain features of fluid dynamics years before physicists thought to study them. “His particular painting...
View ArticleThe Space Shuttle Program’s Oddest Passengers
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NASA’s Glorious History of Training Astronauts
NASA has used some crazy, awesome, and frightening astronaut-training strategies over the years. From underwater EVA training to wilderness survival training, here are some of the best. The post NASA’s...
View ArticleWatch the World’s Largest Shark Tank on Live Webcam
From now until Aug. 7, you can swim with sharks from your desk, thanks to a live webcam embedded in the world’s largest shark tank. To get excited for Shark Week, the Discovery Channel teamed up with...
View ArticleAnimal Astronauts Float in Zero G for Science
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