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Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

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Danielle Wilhour is an assistant professor of neurology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

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When a liquid or gas flows along a solid surface, it tends to stick to the surface. This effect, named for a Romanian aircraft pioneer, has potential uses in such devices as burners and hovering ...