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NASA's Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars' past and current environments that will aid plans for future robotic and human missions.

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NASA's Curiosity rover has uncovered signs of an ancient freshwater lake on Mars that may have teemed with tiny organisms for tens of millions of years, far longer than scientists had imagined, new research suggests.

This NASA image taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager on board the Mars rover Curiosity shows texture of the "snake" as seen by MAHLI on Sol 149.

This software is developed by the EDRN Informatics Center at JPL , operated by the California Institute of Technology, for NCI .

Though best known for its rings, Saturn has another unusual--and unusually beautiful--feature.

Although the dependence of strand displacement kinetics on toehold length has been experimentally characterized and phenomenologically modeled, detailed biophysical understanding has remained elusive.

Can probiotics help those with autism? In a new study , published today in the journal Cell , researchers at the California Institute of Technology found that probiotic therapy alleviates autism-like behaviors in mice.

Doses of a human gut microbe helped to reverse behavioural problems in mice with autism-like symptoms, researchers report today in Cell 1 .

Could autism be treated with probiotics? In a new study from California Institute of Technology , researchers show that probiotic therapy reduces cognitive symptoms in lab mice afflicted with the disorder.

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.