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The dusty disc of NGC 247
The spiral galaxy NGC 247 is one of the closest spiral galaxies of the southern sky. In this new view from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope in Chile large numbers of the galaxy’s component stars are clearly resolved and…
Mars Express close flybys of martian moon Phobos
Mars Express has returned images from the Phobos flyby of 9 January 2011. Mars Express passed Mars’ largest moon at a distance of 100km.
The HRSC-camera recorded images of Phobos on 9 January 2011 at a distance of 100 km with a
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Distance may be key in successful negotiations, new study shows
Adding physical distance between people during negotiations may lead to more mutually beneficial outcomes, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin.
Psychologist Marlone Henderson examined how negotiations that don’t take …
Long distance, top secret messages
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 — When the military needs to send the key to encrypted data across the world, it can’t necessarily rely on today’s communication lines, where the message could be covertly intercepted. But physicists at the Georgia Institute of…
New vision correction options for baby boomers
CHICAGO — Results of clinical research on new presbyopia treatments now available in Europe — and possibly available soon in the United States — were reported in today’s Scientific Program of the 2010 Joint Meeting of the American Academy of Oph…
Ghosts of the future
Astronomers using the South Pole Telescope report that they have discovered the most massive galaxy cluster yet seen at a distance of 7 billion light-years. The cluster (designated SPT-CL J0546-5345) weighs in at around 800 trillion Suns, and hold…
Carlos ’97 free kick no fluke, say French physicists
Roberto Carlos’ free kick goal against France in 1997’s Tournoi de France is thought by many to have been the most skilful free kick goal – from 35m with a powerful curling banana trajectory – ever scored; but by others to have been an incredible fl…
Capacity for exercise can be inherited, UC Riverside biologists find
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Biologists at the University of California, Riverside have found that voluntary activity, such as daily exercise, is a highly heritable trait that can be passed down genetically to successive generations.
Working on mice …
NASA’s Kepler mission discovers 2 planets transiting same star
NASA’s Kepler Mission has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet transiting the same star.
Today’s announcement of the discovery of the two planets, Kepler 9b and 9c, is based on seven months of observation…
