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Cool sun could host habitable planet

Feb 3, 2012

New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a cool star

Spider webs strengthened by local sacrifices

Feb 3, 2012 1 comment

Arachnid silks could inspire improved building designs

Magnetic fields put the brakes on millisecond pulsars

Feb 2, 2012 2 comments

Research could also help better determine pulsar age

Getting to the froth of the matter

Feb 2, 2012 2 comments

Physicists create the "ideal foam" in the lab for the first time

Frequency comb reaches extreme ultraviolet

Feb 1, 2012 5 comments

Device could boost study of fundamental constants

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