A dusty disk around a distant star has faded surprisingly fast, leaving scientists few clues to how it disappeared. full story ![]()

Inside the European Southern Observatory’s Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope in Chile, there's a submillimeter-wavelength camera perfectly tuned to peer through the clouds of interstellar dust and gas that obscure our view of what’s going on elsewhere in the universe. Fortunately for us, the camera is also good at picking up the faint glow given off by those...
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Even when two storm systems in the Sierra Nevada carry the same amount of water vapor, scientists found, the presence of dust from Asia in one will cause far more precipitation.
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For the first time, the European Herschel space observatory has spied an old subgiant star sporting a dusty disk of debris -- a feature usually associated with young stars. ->
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Scientists believe wafting dust, grit and microbes – including bacteria and viruses – can spur the formation of ice crystals in clouds that in turn can influence how much rain or snow falls.
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Scientists say dust from a March 6 storm covered the northern Owyhee Mountains, accelerating the snowmelt.
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Electrically charged lunar dust near shadowed craters can get lofted above the surface and jump over the shadowed region, bouncing back and forth between sunlit areas on opposite sides, according to new calculations by NASA scientists.
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Scientists say a wind storm earlier this month covered a southwestern Idaho mountain range with dust from Oregon and Nevada and accelerated snowmelt due to the darker surface absorbing heat fr…
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“Vanishing Waves,” a psychedelic science-fiction tale, is a discomfiting blend of visual ecstasy and narrative sterility.
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NEW YORK - Scientists have gained new insights into an extinct South African creature with an intriguing mix of human and apelike traits. But they still haven't pinned down where it fits on ou…
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