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Researchers are allowing the development of energy-efficient LED devices that use ultraviolet (UV) lights in order to kill bacteria and viruses.  There are multiple applications for this discovery, such as drinking-water treatments and sterilization of surgical tools.  UV treatment would be beneficial because it would be cheaper and last a lot longer.  This could help out to treat water in other [...]

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Recently scientists detected an enormous sunspot located on our Sun that is 60,000 miles long. The sunspot, named AR 1476, has been firing off many very powerful solar flares towards the Earth along with a strong solar storm. There are three classes of solar flares: C-class, M-class and X-class. C-class are the weakest of the [...]

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The European Space Agency sent up the Envisat Satellite more than ten years ago and has been in a low-Earth orbit ever since. It is an enormous device with its body being about thirty feet long and sixteen feet wide, along having a solar panel of forty-six feet. Altogether the satellite weighs about 17,600 pounds [...]

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Astronomers will soon be trying to observe the transit of Venus as it crosses the Sun. NASA will aim the Hubble Telescope at an impact crater, Tycho, on the moon. The moon will then act as a mirror can obtain the light that is reflected off the moon coming from the Sun. By doing this [...]

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Up until recently, atomic clocks – which are based on the oscillations of a cesium atom – have been the number one clock when it comes to preciseness and accuracy. The cesium clock “defines the exact length of a second,” making it the most advanced form of telling time. However, scientists from Max Planck Institute [...]

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Jupiter is a planet of weather. A storm known as the Great Red Spot, greater than the size of two Earths, is being studied by planetary astronomers to try to learn more about the weather of this great planet. Research is difficult because the Spot is always on the move. Along with the rotation of [...]

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Could it be?  Another planet Earth?  It’s not very likely, but astronomers are still looking into the possibility.  It is helpful to look for clues and patterns that could suggest a similar system in which possible habitable planets could be located.  A research team decided that the best place to search would be near Jupiter-like [...]

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A couple months ago when scientist had first discovered what they thought would be a rare find, it was really big news. Scientist had found a planet with a solar system very similar too ours, and that planet had some chilling qualities just like our earth.  Though inhabitable at this time it was a HUGE discovery [...]

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The theory of dark matter has been up for debate since the 1930′s and for good reason.  There are so many questions surrounding dark matter, and that makes it almost impossible to prove or disprove this strange theory.  Dark matter is way harder to believe compared to how hard it was to believe  regular matter, but most scientist [...]

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Have you ever wondered how Mr. Faust’s computer randomly selects our seats in Physics class? Or how his calculator randomly selects a number for him to use? What if you were to flip a coin and and wanted to get heads, however; you were given tails instead! How exactly does that work?! Well you see, [...]

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