Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a new window insulation material that could significantly improve how buildings manage heat around the world. Their creation functions somewhat like a high-tech form of Bubble Wrap,…
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A clear new material could make windows super efficient
Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a new window insulation material that could significantly improve how buildings manage heat around the world. Their creation functions somewhat like a high-tech form of Bubble Wrap,…
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New SAR11 isolate genomes and global marine metagenomes resolve ecologically relevant units within the Pelagibacterales
Grote, J. et al. Streamlining and core genome conservation among highly divergent members of the SAR11 clade. mBio 3, e00252–12 (2012).
Morris, R. M. et al. SAR11 clade dominates ocean surface bacterioplankton communities. Nature 420, 806–810…
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Hidden circumbinary giant planet emerges from decade old Gemini data
by Robert Schreiber
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
Astronomers have directly imaged a giant exoplanet orbiting a pair of stars, in a configuration reminiscent of the fictional Tatooine system but with the closest-known directly…
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Quasar X ray link to black hole environment found to evolve over cosmic time
by Robert Schreiber
London, UK (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
Astronomers using new X ray data have found evidence that the structure of matter around supermassive black holes has changed over billions of years, challenging a quasar…
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New MAGE model links solar storms to geospace response
by Clarence Oxford
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
NASA’s Center for Geospace Storms, or CGS, has released the Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment model, or MAGE, a supercomputer-based system that uses NASA mission data to…
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Ultra hot super Earth shows dense atmosphere over magma ocean
by Clarence Oxford
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
A Carnegie-led team using NASAs James Webb Space Telescope has obtained the strongest evidence so far for an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet, detecting a substantial gaseous…
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Spies Solar Wind ‘U-Turn’
by Mara Johnson-Groh for GSFC News
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
Images captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun in December 2024 have now revealed new details…
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US Postal Service returns to Webb Space Telescope for 2026 Priority Mail stamps
December 13, 2025 — Given its latest pair of stamps revealed for the new year, maybe the U.S. Postal Service should consider relabeling its expedited deliveries as “interstellar.”
For the third year in a row, Priority Mail stamps in 2026 will…
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How mangroves’ cells helps plants survive in saltwater
Given so much of the world’s population lives along coasts, mangroves’ functions directly benefit many people.
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