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Rediscovering Pluto

Initial images and data from the NASA spacecraft New Horizons’ recent rendezvous with Pluto point to a surprisingly craterless mosaic of relatively an
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Pluto revelations

NINE years ago, as part of its New Frontiers Programme, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched the New Horizons spacecraft. Icy mo
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Black arsenic phosphorus

FOR many decades, silicon has formed the basis of modern electronics. But the size of silicon transistors is reaching its physical limit and silicon i
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Intense rainfall & global warming

RECORD-BREAKING heavy rainfall events, which result in high-impact flooding events, have been increasing in the past 30 years. Before 1980, multi-deca

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Problem put to rest

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A brain-like computer

Researchers have built a prototype of a computer called a memcomputer that works by mimicking the abilities of the human brain, which simultaneously s

To conduct or to insulate?

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Methane in Mars

The presence of methane in the Martian atmosphere has been one of the exciting possibilities that explorations of Mars have tried to verify. An intern

Two beautiful minds

The American mathematicians John Nash Jr and Louis Nirenberg win the 2015 Abel Prize for their work on non-linear partial differential equations.
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