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Extreme Effects: Seven Things You Didn't Know About MercuryPity poor Mercury. The tiny planet endures endless assaults by intense sunlight, powerful solar wind and high-speed miniature meteoroids called micrometeoroids. The planet's flimsy covering, the exosp...
Spitzer Finds a Flavorful Mix of AsteroidsNew research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals that asteroids somewhat near Earth, termed near-Earth objects, are a mixed bunch, with a surprisingly wide array of compositions. Like a pinata...
For swarming patterns: A model system for the group behavior of nanomachines For a human observer insects is the orderly and seemingly choreographed movement of hundreds or even thousands of fish, birds and fascinating. Formation and movement of such diverse, the swarms are st...
NASA's Global Hawk Drone Aircraft Flies Over Frank on the GRIP Hurricane MissionNASA's 2010 hurricane experiment is in full swing as the tropics have heated up. NASA's Global Hawk unmanned aircraft was sent out over this past weekend to conduct measurements on then Tropical Storm...
Supercomputing on a cell phoneMany engineering disciplines rely on supercomputers to simulate complicated physical phenomena - how cracks form in building materials, for instance, or fluids flow through irregular channels. Now, re...
