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In the Jan. 19 SN: Celebrating 150 years of the periodic table, daredevil asteroid missions, early plague evidence from Sweden, more black hole collisions, hybrid rice can clone itself, corals go deep and more.
Nadia Drake's Articles
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Exploring NASA’s quirky places
Best known for its role in crafting and commanding spacecraft such as Curiosity, JPL is also home to decades’ worth of accumulated oddities. - Feature
Milky Way will bite the dust
Eventual collision with Andromeda to shake up the solar system. - Feature
Earth's new neighbor looks familiar
Planet discovered in Alpha Centauri, just a few light-years away. - Feature
Curiosity goes to Mars
NASA’s rover looks for life-friendly environments. - News
Digging deep into Martian soil
NASA's rover takes a closer look at Mars' surface. - Feature
Onward and Skyward
With new efforts aimed at the stars, China seeks to revive its astronomical reputation. - News
Astronomers spot leftover light from ancient stars
Ancient photons leave their mark in high-energy radiation from powerful galaxies. - News
Violent birth proposed for Saturn’s moon mishmash
A simulation suggests that giant collisions created Titan and the planet’s many smaller satellites. - People
The man behind Sarcastic Rover
NASA’s newest rover, Curiosity, wasn’t alone on Mars for long. - Feature
Prospecting for Quasicrystals
Siberian journey nets a mineralogical space oddity.