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Planetary paparazzo

Flying circles around Mercury MESSENGER, shown in an artist’s drawing, will spend 12 months in orbit around Mercury. . Credit: NASA

NASA satellite snaps historic photographs of Mercury

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Wet-dog physics

Wet, hairy animals shake at just the right speeds to get rid of water

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A very good blast from the past

And into the future: New, cool stuff that lasers can do

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Prizes award big ideas about small things

Carbon and IVF win big in this year’s Nobel prizes

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The newest superheavy in town

Superheavy element forged in lab is a first.

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The hottest soup in New York

A quark-gluon plasma reaches the highest temperature ever measured in a lab.

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Small but WISE

Image of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Explorer. Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA

A new telescope will scan the entire sky and see (infra)red

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Scientists explain mystery of triangular snowflakes

A snowflake’s fall helps determine its shape

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See Comet Lulin

Watch the skies for Comet Lulin, a first-time visitor to the solar system that in dark skies will be visible to the naked eye February 24 and will continue until March 1.

A glowing-tailed, first-time visitor to our solar system made a celestial debut visible to the naked eye, starting around 1:30 a.m. on Tues., Feb. 24. If you missed the display — because of clouds or sleep — you can log …

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Hold on to your stars, ladies and gentlemen

Hold on to your stars, ladies and gentlemen

Our galaxy is heavier and spinning much faster than scientists thought

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