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  Curiosity rover's gorgeous pictures from the surface of Mars

  By Amar Toor on August 12, 2012 09:03 pm + 155 comments

  NASA's Curiosity rover has begun sending back its first high-resolution photographs of Mars, and Continue reading…

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  Mars photos from NASA's Curiosity rover

  on August 12, 2012 09:03 pm + 11 comments

  Pictures from NASA's Mars Curiosity rover. Continue reading…

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  Space shuttle Endeavour's final journey to Los Angeles

  By Amar Toor on August 9, 2012 12:15 am + 5 comments

  The space shuttle Endeavour will be arriving in Los Angeles in a few weeks, and Spaceflight Now has Continue reading…

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  Curiosity: 17 cameras, plutonium, and an 11-year-old computer

  By Kimber Streams on August 7, 2012 08:21 pm + 66 comments

  Curiosity has successfully landed on the surface of Mars, and this car-sized rover is absolutely Continue reading…

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  NASA releases color video of Curiosity's dramatic descent

  By Amar Toor on August 7, 2012 02:29 am + 135 comments

  After having successfully landed on the Mars yesterday, NASA's Curiosity rover has now begun Continue reading…

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  Modern popular music does all sound the same, and it's getting louder too

  By Andrew Webster on July 30, 2012 10:17 am + 73 comments

  If you've ever turned on the radio and thought that all popular music sounds the same, it turns out Continue reading…

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  Scientists restore light sensitivity in blind mice using simple chemical injection

  By Vlad Savov on July 26, 2012 07:06 am + 9 comments

  Eyesight restoration has deservedly been the subject of much research over the years, but the latest Continue reading…

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  Scientists create artificial jellyfish from rat's heart

  By Justin Rubio on July 22, 2012 07:31 pm + 57 comments

  One day at the New England Aquarium in Boston, biophysicist Kit Parker saw a jellyfish and said "I Continue reading…

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  Watch this: 'God, the Universe and Everything Else' with Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Arthur C. Clarke

  By Aaron Souppouris on July 22, 2012 03:09 pm + 32 comments

  What better way to spend an hour than watching three of the greatest minds of our time discussing Continue reading…

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  Stanford's computational cell model lets scientists experiment virtually

  By Evan Rodgers on July 20, 2012 05:31 pm + 7 comments

  Stanford scientists have created a full computational model of the Mycoplasma genitalium bacteria, Continue reading…