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New Simulation Reveals Planet Migration Prevents Plunge Into Sun

In their quest to find solar systems analogous to ours, astronomers have determined how common our solar system is.

A long forgotten fossil skull in the collections of the Natural History Museum in London has now provided crucial clues to the early stages of the lengthy evolutionary history of these fearsome predators.

Biologists long have marveled at the ability of some animals to re-grow lost body parts. Newts, for example, can lose a leg and grow a new one identical to the original. Zebrafish can re-grow fins.

Researchers have created a magnetic "ferropaper" that might be used to make low-cost "micromotors" for surgical instruments, tiny tweezers to study cells and miniature speakers.

NASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system.

Team uses a high-speed camera to film the instant of touch down on surfaces at various inclinations.

An instrument package launched in May by the European Space Agency has provided one of the most detailed views yet of space up to 12 billion years back in time.

Closing schools for less than two weeks during a flu pandemic may increase infection rates and prolong an epidemic, say University of Pittsburgh researchers.

The inner regions of young planet-forming disks offer information about how worlds like Earth form.