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Aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria: very abundant marine plankton.
Big Bang nucleosynthesis: there is an unexplained discrepancy for the element Lithium.
Linda B. Buck: a Nobel prize winner in biology - recently retracted publications.
Lois McMaster Bujold: award winning scifi and fantasy author.
Cartesian Coordinates: French philosopher Oreseme anticipated Descartes by centuries.
Cassiopeia A: a supernova remnant and a very strong radio source.
Clovis point: beautiful spear points from ancient America.
Coherent perfect absorber: a time-reversed laser.
Dwarf galaxy problem: there aren't as many as expected.
Geminga: an unusual neutron star which generated the Local Bubble.
J. Richard Gott: Princeton professor of astrophysics with a Doomsday Theory.
GSI anomaly: unexplained oscillations detected at a German laboratory.
Guzheng: a classical Chinese musical instrument.
Haptophyte: tiny uncultured pico-prymnesiophytes are ecologically important.
Helical Dirac fermion: behaves like a massless relativistic particle.
Helitron: DNA which replicates by a rolling-circle mechanism.
Inner Core: the central core of the earth has an East-West asymmetry.
Richard J. Lipton: computer scientist, Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP is his blog.
Local Void: a vast empty region of space near our Milky Way galaxy.
Mira B: the companion of the variable star Mira is now believed to be a white dwarf.
National Spatial Reference System: is a coordinate system managed by the US.
Pre-solar nebula: a supernova shock wave may have triggered the formation of the Sun.
Puerto Plata: is a resort town on the north coast of the Dominican Republic.
Ptychography: allows X-ray microscopes without using lenses.
Quantum Gravity: this theory has a Problem with Time.
The Rose of Versailles: is a Japanese manga set during the French Revolution.
RX J0852.0-4622: a nearby supernova which should have been visible around 1250.
SCP 06F6: an extremely luminous supernova.
Second harmonic imaging microscopy: useful in imaging in living tissues.
Segue 1: a dwarf galaxy dominated by Dark Matter.
Three Tales: the tale A Simple Heart by Flaubert inspired the novel Flaubert's Parrot.
Time dilation : A surprising consequence of relativity.
Topological insulator: an exotic material that has insulating and conducting regions.
Torquetum: a medieval astronomical instrument.
Transit of Venus: Venus will cross the face of the Sun again in 2012.
Type IIn supernovae: extremely energetic supernovae.
Type IIb supernovae: a star with a mostly helium core explodes.
Venus: the planet was completely resurfaced 300-600 million years ago.
Water window: water is transparent to part of the X-ray spectrum.
Xenocarida: the "strange shrimp" are a group of recently discovered Crustacea.
Shing-Tung Yau: distinguished mathematician, Poincaire conjecture controversy.
Zero Morphism: is a concept in the mathematical subject Category Theory.
