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Hubble Captures Double Aurorae Light Show on Saturn
The movie they created from the data, has aided astronomers studying both Saturn's northern and southern aurorae. Given the rarity of such an event, this new footage will likely be the last and best equinox movie that Hubble captures of our planetary neighbor.
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Three Reasons Why We're Closer Than Ever To Fusion Power
It seems like we're constantly just around the corner from fusion power, and that soon it'll solve our energy woes. While we're not quite there yet, three new reports all indicate we're at least getting a little closer.
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Chilean Glacier w/Active Volcano in Background (pic) view!
Lautaro, an active volcano, flanks the surface of Chile's Pío XI Glacier. Chile's ice fields are among the world's large...
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Levitating magnet bring space physics to fusion
Tests on an experimental machine that mimics a planet’s magnetic field show that it may offer an ‘alternative path’ to taming nuclear fusion for power generation.
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Animal Bad Boys: From Bully Fish to Alcoholic Flies
Sometimes the most seemingly quiet and docile animals can have quite the mean streak in them when provoked or influenced by their surroundings. Consider the cases of cleaner fish, damselfish and fruit flies, all of which have demonstrated bad boy behavior that goes against their typical temperaments suggesting that they “wouldn’t harm a fly."
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Why men use prostitutes
The reasons why many men pay for sex are revealed in the interviews that make up a major new piece of research.
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PHOTOS: Antarctic "Time Capsule" Hut Revealed
Nearly a century after Capt. Robert Falcon Scott explored the southern continent, experts are working to save the British explorer's wooden hut and three others in the area from slipping under the snow forever.
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