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RPBW designs the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, with Eastman contributing to the glass sphere ...

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Using data gathered by NASA's Juno Jupiter orbiter, scientists estimate that Europa's ice shell is about 18 miles thick — ...

The assumption that the attractive nuclear force is independent of the charge of the individual nucleons between which it acts is one of the fundamental tenets of nuclear structure. This assumption ...

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New microwave measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal Europa’s ice shell may stretch nearly 29 km (18 miles) deep, ...