January 2011
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Chemists have made a helium atom appear to be...
Atomic disguise makes helium look like hydrogen
“Millard Alexander of the University of Maryland in College Park calls it ‘very sexy nuclear chemistry’.”
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Hubble find the earliest known galaxy so far
NASA’s Hubble Finds Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Ever
“Astronomers have pushed NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to its limits by finding what is likely to be the most distant object ever seen in the universe. The object’s light traveled 13.2 billion years to reach Hubble, roughly 150 million years longer than the previous record holder. The age of the universe is...
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