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This is the first hexagon movie of its kind, using color filters, and the first to show a complete view of the top of Saturn down to about 70 degrees latitude.

Long coils of optical waveguides-any structure that can guide light, like conventional optical fiber-can be used to create a time delay in the transmission of light.

The magenta spots in this image show two black holes in the spiral galaxy called NGC 1313 .

Statoil and the National Aeronautical and Space Administration have formed a partnership to explore how technologies and knowledge from the space and oil and gas industries can be relevant to one another.

The waveguides are built onto microchips and include up to 50m of coiled material that is used to delay light.

Do black holes also come in size medium? NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is busy scrutinizing a class of black holes that may fall into the proposed medium-sized category.

A Burroughs High senior recently earned a top score on the ACT exam, accomplishing something that fewer than one-tenth of 1% of students who take the test typically achieve, , according to ACT spokesperson Katie Wacker.

Figuring out ways to add new building blocks to the genetic codes of living organisms, among other feats, has garnered Peter G. Schultz the Chemistry for the Future Solvay Prize , awarded every other year by Solvay , a chemical company based in Belgium.

Black holes can be petite, with masses only about 10 times that of our sun - or monstrous, boasting the equivalent in mass up to 10 billion suns.

In developing nations, rural areas, and even one's own home, limited access to expensive equipment and trained medical professionals can impede the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

The collage above includes about 1,600 images submitted by members of the public as part of the NASA Cassini mission's "Wave at Saturn" campaign.

Previous studies have shown these difficulties to be related to differences in how the brains of autistic individuals process sensory information about faces.

The recent deal between Norway's Statoil and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to deploy in their words "a wide range of technologies" to aid in oil and gas exploration and production efforts isn't too surprising, given that many systems developed for operation beyond out planet's surface are increasingly finding their way into many ... (more)

Astronomers using the combined power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope in Chile and NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have discovered a trio of primitive galaxies nestled inside an enormous blob of primordial gas nearly 13 billion light-years from Earth.

Statoil and NASA have formed an agreement to explore a wide range of technologies to assist Statoil in the search for oil and gas exploration and production efforts, which are increasingly moving into frontier regions.

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Difficulties in social interaction are considered to be one of the behavioral hallmarks of autism spectrum disorders .

In what are believed to be the first studies of their kind, Cedars-Sinai researchers recording the real-time firing of individual nerve cells in the brain found that a specific type of neuron in a structure called the amygdala performed differently in people who suffer from autism spectrum disorder than in those who do not.

D'Ambrosia's interest in the project began while working with William Clyde, an associate professor of geology at UNH.

It's a bouncing baby . . . star! Combined observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the newly completed Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile have revealed the throes of stellar birth as never before in the well-studied object known as HH 46/47.