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Season’s greetings from outer space

  Are you looking for out-of-this-world greeting cards? NASA's Great Observatories has just the thing.

Science
Yuck! Bad teeth reveal what ancients ate

  Thanks to poor dental hygiene, researchers are getting a more detailed understanding of what people ate thousands of years ago in what is now Peru. Full story

Tales from the tummy: Did Iceman munch on moss?
Innovation

Laser blast produces bevy of antimatter

LLNL |
 
Blasting Gold for Antimatter
Hui Chen of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is shown adjusting the Titan laser. Chen's team used the Titan laser to produce large amounts of antimatter.
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New technique may help solve why more matter than antimatter survived the Big Bang. Full story

Racing for fuel efficiency
Image: sporty red sedan
Courtesy of Cornell 100 MPG

Frontiers: New innovations could change the way we drive in the not-too-distant future. Full story

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Image: researcher measures the photosynthetic rate of carbohydrate synthesis in some lab-grown plants
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Security

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Hands-off hackers: Crooks try surgical strikes

Internet criminals have been getting more "professional" for years, trying to run their businesses like Big Business to get better and more profitable at selling stolen data online. Now the bad guys of the cyber-underworld are exhibiting other unexpected traits: remarkable patience and restraint in stalking their victims.

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