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  Who would have imagined a caterpillar urinating could look so beautiful? This amazing image was captured by Dennie Photo Art as part of his Macro series. We'll be sharing more of his great work on ScienceAlert over the next few weeks. Cities can maintain their native bird populations, but only if they become more compact, a new study has found. Researchers modelled two urban development scenarios over 20 years...

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Science Alert.... 01

Dying to know what Curiosity has found on Mars after last week's reports that NASA has an announcement "for the history books" coming up? So are we! But don't get too carried away - whatever the discovery is, it's not life on Mars, writes Stuart Clark. Still, that doesn't mean it won't be groundbreaking for the scientific community. A newly discovered gene that's essential for embryo survival could hold the key to treating...

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NASA News...

2012: Shadow of the Dark Rift Thick dust clouds block our night-time view of the Milky Way, creating what is sometimes called the Dark Rift. The fact that -- from the viewpoint of Earth -- the sun aligns with these clouds, or the galactic center, near the winter solstice is no cause for concern. One of the most bizarre theories about 2012 has built up with very little attention to facts. This  idea holds that a cosmic...

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Astronomy

'Honey I Shrunk the Planetary System'. This artist's conception compares the KOI-961 planetary system to Jupiter and the largest four of its many moons. The KOI-961 planetary system hosts the three smallest planets known to orbit a star beyond our sun (called KOI-961.01, KOI-961.02 and KOI-961.03). The smallest of these planets, KOI-961.03, is about the same size as Mars. All three planets take le ss than two days to whip around their...

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FROM "NASA"...-News.....

Mars Rock Touched by NASA Curiosity has SurprisesPASADENA, Calif. -- The first Martian rock NASA's Curiosity rover has reached out to touch presents a more varied composition than expected from previous missions. The rock also resembles some unusual rocks from Earth's interior. The rover team used two instruments on Curiosity to study the chemical makeup of the football-size rock called "Jake Matijevic" (matt-EE-oh-vick) The results...

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Beauty of Earth from the space

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Science Alert

En busca de nuestros orígenes cósmicosRADIO OBSERVATORIO ALMAEn lo alto del llano de Chajnantor, en la Cordillera de los Andes, en Chile, el Observatorio Europeo Austral (ESO), está construyendo, junto con sus socios internacionales, el Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), un telescopio de vanguardia para estudiar la luz de algunos de los objetos más fríos del Universo. Esta luz tiene longitudes de onda de alrededor de...

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Photos From "NASA"

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New Think From NASA...

   The Eagle Nebula (M16): Peering Into the Pillars Of CreationA new look at the famous "Pillars of Creation" with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has allowed astronomers to peer inside the dark columns of gas and dust. This penetrating view of the central region of the Eagle Nebula reveals how much star formation is happening inside these iconic structures.The Chandra data shows bright X-ray so urces in this field, most of...

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Science Alert

Voting from space? Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are getting ready to cast their vote in the 2012 US Presidential Election. Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will send a digital ballot to the astronauts; they will fill it out and then send it back to Earth along the same path.  Geckos have tiny hair-like structures on their feet that work almost like Velcro, allowing them to adhere...

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