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- Better chow yields more milk: A more nutritious form of corn for dairy cows boosts farm profits, teen investigator finds
- Fuzzy future: Kids may suffer impaired vision from spending too little time outdoors, studies suggest
- Building with moon rocks: Working on the moon with lunar soil and grit could prove easier, more efficient and less costly than using earthly materials
Astronomy
- Astronomers look forward to building on the planet-hunting telescope's discoveries.
- The planet-hunting telescope has been crippled by the failure of two out of four pointing devices.
- Imagine having a printer hooked up to your computer that could make anything. Want a chocolate treat? Print it. Need a new dress, new shoes or maybe just new cleats for soccer? Just choose a style and size. Then print, print and print some more. It could print out a new house.
- The Milky Way’s planets pack tightly around their stars, according to simulations using data from the Kepler space telescope.
- Space probes detect temporary transition from two radiation belts to three, possibly in response to solar activity.
- Astronomers show how bodies orbiting distant Jupiters could be habitable.
- Rock is water-rich and resembles observed regions of Red Planet’s crust.
- Sutter’s Mill rock preserves rare, fresh material from outer space.
- Astronomers find a body in the habitable zone of a nearby sunlike star by pushing the limits of detection.
- NASA to guide gravity-seeking spacecraft into the side of a lunar cliff.
- The Hubble telescope spies stars lighting up the cosmic dawn.
- Images capture fine details of planet’s night lights.
- Soil analysis finds organic compounds of uncertain origin.
- Frozen material at the planet’s poles likely came from comet or asteroid impacts.
- With new efforts aimed at the stars, China seeks to revive its astronomical reputation.
- Astronomers report the closest such free-floating object to Earth.
- The large exoplanet lies just 42 light-years away.
- A simulation suggests that giant collisions created Titan and the planet’s many smaller satellites.
- Siberian journey nets a mineralogical space oddity.
- The observation of two stellar-mass objects in one globular cluster violates existing astrophysical dogma.
- The gassy halo engulfing the Milky Way, a comet in the neighborhood, and extraterrestrial rocks as the source of life on Earth.
- Explosion probably resulted from two white dwarfs.
- Sent to Mars in search of water and other evidence of habitability, the rover appears to have landed in a dry streambed.
- In the distant galaxy M87, new observations about structure’s rotational speed and jets show the potential of a budding telescope network.
- On the 35th anniversary of the spacecraft’s launch, scientists ponder when it will move beyond the sun’s reach.
- The newfound planet orbits a common type of dwarf star, suggesting even more may be out there.
- A collection of reports from the 28th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, Beijing.
- The Kepler spacecraft catches two exoplanets around a binary star system, with one planet in the habitable zone.
- Astronomers offer explanations for source of light around object with an unusual yearly behavior.
- Stars form at an impressive rate thanks to a snoozing black hole at the center of the massive object.
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