Terahertz (THz) light may provide stunning breakthroughs in areas as diverse as national security, medical imaging and communications technology. But it's largely been ignored until recently, because there wasn't a terahertz ...
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As big fish eat little fish in the Earth's vast oceans, so too do supermassive black holes gorge on smaller black holes and neutron stars, making themselves more massive in the process. Using sophisticated computer modeling, ...
Jan 16, 2005
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Taking stock of the stuff between the stars - the all-important dust and gases that are the building blocks of new stars - has never been easy. The interstellar medium, as scientists know it, is a murky, nebulous place that ...
Jan 16, 2005
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Despite real though faint hopes, ground-based astronomers failed to see any sign of the Huygens probe's plunge into Titan's atmosphere on Friday, Jan. 14, but they did obtain some near-infrared images of Saturn's largest ...
Jan 16, 2005
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Graduate student Kevin Hand explores the potential for life on Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter, for his doctoral work in geological and environmental sciences. Like most astrobiologists and planetary scientists, Hand must ...
Jan 16, 2005
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ESA presents audio data collected by the Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument (HASI), which includes an acoustic sensor, during Huygens' descent, 14 January 2005. A couple of more pictures have been revealed. On 14 January ...
Jan 16, 2005
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