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  • Researchers demonstrate how to control liquid crystal patterns

    Research led by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrated that not only could patterns on liquid crystals be controlled at nanoscales, but the changes could be visible without microscopes.

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  • Data suggest black holes swallow stellar debris in bursts

    In the center of a distant galaxy, almost 300 million light years from Earth, scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole that is “choking” on a sudden influx of stellar debris.

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  • Heads Up, Earthlings! The Geminids Are Here

    Maybe you’ve already seen a bright meteor streak across the December sky? The annual Geminid meteor shower has arrived. It’s a good time to bundle up, go outside and let the universe blow your mind!

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  • A Brief History Of Some Of Australia’s Weirdest UFO Encounters

    Thanks in so small part to movies like Close Encounters and Signs, the imagery of UFO encounters and alien abductions is deeply tied to the American mid-west.

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  • NASA Juno Findings – Jupiter’s Jet-Streams Are Unearthly

    Data collected by NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter indicate that the atmospheric winds of the gas-giant planet run deep into its atmosphere and last longer than similar atmospheric processes found here on Earth. The findings will improve understanding of Jupiter’s interior structure, core mass and, eventually, its origin.

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  • Antares: Astronomers Snap Most Detailed Image of Star That’s Not the Sun

    An international team of astronomers from Chile and Germany has managed to capture an image of unprecedented detail of another star — that isn’t the Sun — the red supergiant star Antares. The team has also made the first map of the velocities of material in the atmosphere of a star other than the Sun, revealing unexpected turbulence in the extended atmosphere of Antares.

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