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Interactions of quarks and gluons are basis for calculations that bolster those predicted by standard model of particle physics.Published: Thursday, November 20th, 2008Found in: Atom & Cosmos and Matter & Energy
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Using radar from an orbiting spacecraft to penetrate the hidden recesses of Mars, planetary prospectors have uncovered vast reserves of water-ice buried beneath rocky debris.Published: Thursday, November 20th, 2008Found in: Atom & Cosmos and Planetary Science -
During an experiment in Fermilab's Tevatron particle accelerator, a group of elementary particles called muons showed up in a strange place. Physicists are considering the likely implications.Published: Friday, November 14th, 2008Found in: Atom & Cosmos and Matter & Energy -
The first images of a planetary system beyond the solar system are released, while the Hubble Space Telescope snaps a shot of likely planet orbiting a nearby star.Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2008Found in: Atom & Cosmos -
Even as the Hubble Space Telescope was able to snap an image after several weeks of idling, a mission to visit and upgrade Hubble suffered another delay.Published: Thursday, October 30th, 2008Found in: Astronomy and Atom & Cosmos -
Home / News / November 22nd, 2008; Vol.174 #11 / Double the rubble: Nearby star system has two asteroid beltsEpsilon Eridani hosts an inner asteroid belt and planet arranged like those in the solar system. (p. 13)Published: November 22nd, 2008; Vol.174 #11Found in: Atom & Cosmos -
Kaguya, a Japanese spacecraft orbiting the moon, finds that a south pole crater called Shackleton has no visible signs of ice.Published: Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Found in: Atom & Cosmos
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A plan to switch the Hubble Space Telescope to a backup system works, waking up the telescope after more than two weeks of silence. (p. 8)Published: November 8th, 2008; Vol.174 #10Found in: Atom & Cosmos -
Planetary scientists have gotten their closest look yet at polar storms on the ringed planet. These polar cyclones are big enough to engulf Earth. (p. 9)Published: November 8th, 2008; Vol.174 #10Found in: Atom & Cosmos and Planetary Science -
Astronomers have found, in the frozen reaches beyond Neptune, two gravitationally bound objects that compose the most widely spaced binary system known in the solar system. (p. 9)Published: November 8th, 2008; Vol.174 #10Found in: Atom & Cosmos and Planetary Science
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Astronomers have discovered the first comet that appears to be a contact binary — two chunks somehow held together by a narrow neck of material. (p. 9)Published: November 8th, 2008; Vol.174 #10Found in: Atom & Cosmos
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A chunk of ice orbiting backwards around the sun could offer hints about the mysterious origin of some comets.Published: Sunday, October 12th, 2008Found in: Atom & Cosmos and Planetary Science
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Giant Jupiter, often thought to protect the inner planets from space debris, may sometimes acts as a sniper, hurling material toward Earth. (p. 9)Published: November 8th, 2008; Vol.174 #10Found in: Atom & Cosmos and Planetary Science
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Astronomers have discovered the hottest and largest known extrasolar planet.Published: Saturday, October 11th, 2008Found in: Atom & Cosmos
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Home / News / October 25th, 2008; Vol.174 #9 / Nobel Prize in physics shared for work that unifies forces of natureUnderstanding of broken symmetry has been crucial to the standard model of particle physics. (p. 10)Published: October 25th, 2008; Vol.174 #9Found in: Matter & Energy and Physics
