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• Hubble sees an unexpected population of young-looking stars
• Disaster defense: Balancing costs and benefits
• Our solar system is not quite as special as once believed, new research suggests
• NASA rover finds clues to changes in Mars' atmosphere
• World record for entanglement of twisted light quanta
• A new order in the quantum world: Using laser beams scientists generated quantum matter with novel, crystal-like properties
• Temporary storage for electrons in a hydrogen-producing enzyme

Hubble sees an unexpected population of young-looking stars Posted: 02 Nov 2012 12:20 PM PDT The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope offers an impressive view of the center of globular cluster NGC 6362. The image of this spherical collection of stars takes a deeper look at the core of the globular cluster, which contains a high concentration of stars with different colors.

Disaster defense: Balancing costs and benefits Posted: 02 Nov 2012 12:19 PM PDT Do costly seawalls provide a false sense of security in efforts to control nature? Would it be better to focus on far less expensive warning systems and improved evacuation procedures? A father-son team have developed new strategies to defend society against natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy and the effects of climate change. The approach, which considers costs and benefits while identifying the best solution, is based on a mathematical technique called optimization.

Our solar system is not quite as special as once believed, new research suggests Posted: 02 Nov 2012 12:19 PM PDT Some 4.567 billion years ago, our solar system's planets spawned from an expansive disc of gas and dust rotating around the sun. While similar processes are witnessed in younger solar systems throughout the Milky Way, the formative stages of our own solar system were believed to have taken twice as long to occur. Now, new research, suggests otherwise. Indeed, our solar system is not quite as special as once believed.

NASA rover finds clues to changes in Mars' atmosphere Posted: 02 Nov 2012 12:16 PM PDT NASA's car-sized rover, Curiosity, has taken significant steps toward understanding how Mars may have lost much of its original atmosphere. Learning what happened to the Martian atmosphere will help scientists assess whether the planet ever was habitable.

World record for entanglement of twisted light quanta Posted: 02 Nov 2012 08:53 AM PDT Physicists have achieved a new milestone in the history of quantum physics: Scientists were able to generate and measure the entanglement of the largest quantum numbers to date.

A new order in the quantum world: Using laser beams scientists generated quantum matter with novel, crystal-like properties Posted: 02 Nov 2012 05:46 AM PDT By using laser beams, scientists have generated quantum matter with novel, crystal-like properties.

Temporary storage for electrons in a hydrogen-producing enzyme Posted: 02 Nov 2012 05:44 AM PDT Scientists have found through spectroscopic investigations on a hydrogen-producing enzyme that the environment of the catalytic site acts as an electron reservoir in the enzyme. Thus, it can very efficiently produce hydrogen, which has great potential as a renewable energy source.

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