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Heat brings earliest spring blooms on record
Unusually warm spring weather in 2010 and 2012 resulted in the earliest blooms on record in two US locations, a new study finds.
January 17, 2013
Paging Dr. Charles Dickens
Author Charles Dickens used literature to showcase discrimination against the disabled, says a TAU researcher.
January 16, 2013
Light from the darkness
An evocative new image from ESO shows a dark cloud where new stars are forming, along with a cluster of brilliant stars that have already emerged from their dusty stellar nursery.
January 16, 2013
Neon lights up exploding stars
An international team of nuclear astrophysicists has shed new light on the explosive stellar events known as novae.
January 15, 2013
What would hyperspace travel really look like?
Physics students shed new light on Millennium Falcon’s hyperdrive system – using Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity.
January 14, 2013
Scientists reassemble the backbone of life using synchrotron X-rays
Scientists have been able to reconstruct, for the first time, the intricate three-dimensional structure of the backbone of early tetrapods, the earliest four-legged animals.
January 14, 2013
Astronomers discover the largest structure in the universe
The large quasar group (LQG) is so large that it would take a vehicle traveling at the speed of light some 4 billion years to cross it.
January 11, 2013
A cloudy mystery
A puzzling cloud near the galaxy's center may hold clues to how stars are born.
January 10, 2013
A jumble of exotic stars
This new infrared image shows the globular cluster 47 Tucanae, which contains millions of stars, in striking detail.
January 10, 2013
Even in remote spots, chemicals lurk in trees
Scientists have found that flame retardant chemicals show up as environmental pollutants all over the world, even in remote parts of Indonesia, Nepal, and Tasmania
January 10, 2013
