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Opportunity rover finds possible meteorite on Mars
Still motoring across the Red Planet five years into its mission, NASA's Opportunity rover recently came across what may be a large meteorite sitting on the Martian surface

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Power-hungry supercomputers going green
During the first half of 2009, the power of the world's fastest supercomputers increased in aggregate 15 percent, whereas average supercomputer energy efficiency rose 10 percent

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Drilling deep into an ocean fault
Japanese researchers are searching for answers in the depths of the Nankai Trough about why the previously active fault has locked up in the past several decades—and what type of activity might be likely in the near future

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Century-Old Physics Law Violated
A study shows that the well-known rules of heat transfer from a nonreflective object, called Planck's blackbody radiation law, break down if the object can be brought close enough to another object while still not touching it