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• Runaway stars go ballistic
New images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal 14 young, runaway stars plowing through regions of dense interstellar gas, creating brilliant arrowhead structures and trailing tails of glowing gas. These arrowheads, or bow shocks, form when the ...
• Going out of town? Leave your shirt behind
The physical proximity of these brain regions might add some immediacy to the link between a scent and the emotion it evokes. “Scents really pull us in, in a way that may not be consciously apparent,” Muskin says. “We detect a scent and ...
• Obama adds 'Youth Ball' to festivities
The committee also announced regional inaugural balls for guests from the Midwest, West, East, South and Mid-Atlantic regions of the country, as well as balls for guests from Obama's home states of Illinois and Hawaii and Vice President-elect Joe ...
• Record U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan in '08
The U.S. now has some 32,000 forces in the country — record levels — and officials say those troops have moved into new territory and rousted militants in those regions. But militants gained new ground in the south — even on the doorsteps of ...
• Did Earth's twin cores spark plate tectonics?
And a study last year of how seismic waves propagate through the iron showed that the core is split into two distinct regions. Beyond that, little is known. But Cetin and Ozkirim think a dual inner core can explain the rise of plate tectonics , and ...