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A vast molecular cloud, long invisible, is discovered near solar system

An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially star-forming cloud that is one of the largest single structures in the sky and among the closest to the sun and Earth ever to be detected. The vast ball of hydrogen, long invisible toContinue Reading

Missing link in early Martian water cycle discovered

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Billions of years ago, water flowed on the surface of Mars. But scientists have an incomplete picture of how the Red Planet’s water cycle worked. That could soon change after two graduate students at The University of Texas at Austin filled a large gap in knowledge about Mars’ water cycleContinue Reading

Missing link in early Martian water cycle discovered

This “robot bird” flies at 45 mph through forests—With no GPS or light

Scientists freeze quantum motion using ultrafast laser trick