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Who says physicists aren't funny? Stephen Hawking cracks some hilarious atomic jokes.
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Stephen Hawking Makes Some Atomic Jokes
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Who says physicists aren't funny? Stephen Hawking cracks some hilarious space jokes.
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Stephen Hawking Makes Some Space Jokes
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The sun’s atmosphere, known as the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than its surface, and scientists may have figured out why. A NASA spacecraft found evidence of “heat bombs” collectively heating up the atmosphere.
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Heat Bombs on the Sun
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The Dark Side of the Sun premieres February 12th on Science Channel.
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SCI Dark Side of the Sun Promo
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In 2018 the Solar Probe Plus launches. It will orbit 4 million miles above the sun.
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Solar Exploration
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The sun is an amazing celestial object. Here are some amazing facts about the sun you may not know about!
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Amazing Facts about the Sun
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Sometime’s the Sun’s magnetic field becomes unstable and creates sun spots.
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Understanding Sun Spots
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Happy Pi Day!
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Pi Day Haikus
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Solar wind is a constant emission from the Sun that sweeps out into the Solar System. It’s made of particles and plasma.
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What is Solar Wind?
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The Sun’s Coronal Mass Ejections not only reach Earth, but should also cat us a lot of money.
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What the Sun Could Cost Us
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Like Earth, space experiences dynamic, powerful weather.
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Space Weather
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A look at the upcoming missions that will take space exploration to new heights!
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The Future of Science in 2017
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Medical progress came in many forms this year, from nanotechnology and bio printing organs leading the charge to the first successful human trials for CRISPR.
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Medical: A Year in Review
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From reusable rockets to robotics, engineers began shaping a future in 2016 that most of us cannot yet dream of.
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Engineering: A Year in Review
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2016 saw technology changing the way we interact with our world with new innovations like autonomous vehicles and virtual reality.
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Tech: A Year in Review
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A look back at two of the biggest news headlines from 2016: Gravitational waves and Proxima b.
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Space: A Year in Review
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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly returns to Earth after spending 340 days on the International Space Station.
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Thanks to the Parkes radio telescope in Australia, we can now see nearly 300 galaxies normally hidden by stars and dust, 250 million light years away.
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2016 marks the 50th anniversary of Star Trek. And to boldly go where no man has gone before, physicist Philip Lubin has outlined a way to propel spacecraft using photon propulsion instead of NASA’s current chemical propulsion.
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How Did Star Trek Inspire Science?
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Researchers in Belgium examined the immune systems of 670 people and found a 50% decrease in variation among couples living together compared to randomly paired individuals.
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Thanks to the hyper-sensitive camera on the CFH Telescope in Hawaii, French astronomers have discovered an enormous plume of gas tailing a galaxy in the Virgo Cluster.
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A Plume of Gas Tails a Galaxy
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The ExoMars probe, a joint project between Europe and Russia, is on its way to Mars. It's objective is to find any evidence of life on the red planet. If everything goes as planned, the probe should reach Mars by October 2016.
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ExoMars Probe Searches for Life on Mars
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NASA officials just introduced the design for a supersonic passenger jet without the disruptive boom associated with supersonic flight.
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NASA's Supersonic X Planes
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A Dying Star 20x Bigger Than the Sun
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Researchers found the first gene associated with gray hair. After studying the genomes of more than 6,600 people from Latin America, the research team were able to identify the genes linked to different hair qualities, including graying.
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What Gene Causes Gray Hair?
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In Indonesia, scientists captured the only total eclipse of 2016. Other than looking very cool, solar eclipses actually allow us to see the outer region of the Sun's atmosphere, helping scientists understand the rare astronomical phenomena.
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A set of comets recently flew by Earth. The closest was 2.2 million miles away from our planet's surface. NASA believes it will be 150 years before another comet flies within this proximity.
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Historic Comet Flyby
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A Harvard study revealed that most people are not aware of harboring a gender bias. The study found that teenage girls preferred male political leaders and that men receive more credit for their professional work than women.
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Science Suggests We Have a Natural Gender Bias
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