Curiosity sending back telescopic images of nearby Mars features

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As part of the Mars Science Lab Mission (MSL), Curiosity is now sending back telescopic images from Mars.  This image is from a test series used to characterize the 100-millimeter Mast Camera on NASA’s Curiosity rover.  It was taken on Aug. 23, 2012, and looks south-southwest from the rover’s landing site.  The 100-millimeter Mastcam has…

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The eyes have it: Men do see things differently to women

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The way that the visual centers of men and women’s brains works is different, finds new research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Biology of Sex Differences. Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli, but women are better at discriminating between colors. In the brain there are high concentrations of…

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Why yes, there is indeed sugar in space.

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Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope in Chile, astronomers have found glycolaldehyde, which is a simple form of sugar not much different than table sugar we put in our coffee, near a young star called RAS 16293-2422.

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