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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Space

    This exoplanet is so cool

    A satellite has found the first temperate planet outside the solar system that can be studied in detail.

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  2. Space

    Spacecraft takes express tour of Martian moon

    New images and gravity data reveal details about the origin and composition of Phobos.

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  3. Space

    Magnetic flows cause sunspot lows, study shows

    Observations of gas flows on the solar surface may explain why the sun recently had such a prolonged case of the doldrums; could lead to more accurate predictions for the duration and severity of future solar cycles.

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  4. Space

    Geophysicists push age of Earth’s magnetic field back 250 million years

    South African rocks suggest that the earliest stages of life on Earth were protected from harmful solar radiation.

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  5. Space

    Spirit: ‘The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated’

    The Mars rover makes a small, but promising, move.

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  6. Space

    Lopsided stellar disks help black holes guzzle gas

    Theorists have found a new recipe for feeding the supermassive centers of galaxies.

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  7. Space

    Shaving extra dimensions

    More news from the American Physical Society meeting.

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  8. Physics

    Hogan’s noise

    A cosmologist suggests a novel way to uncover the nature of spacetime on the smallest scales.

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  9. Astronomy

    Saturn moon could be hospitable to life, new images suggest

    Cassini spacecraft sees evidence for liquid water beneath the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

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  10. Space

    Study raises questions about supernova origins

    X-ray observations of the explosions could shift measurements of the mysterious entity known as dark energy.

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  11. Astronomy

    Black hole as a peephole

    The galaxy’s central supermassive black hole could smear light to reveal extra dimensions.

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  12. Space

    Powerful collider set to smash protons

    The Large Hadron Collider will operate at only half its maximum energy for the next 2 years.

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