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Phytoplankton are tiny little plants that drift with the currents throughout the ocean. Did you know that a teaspoon of sea water can contain as many as a million one-celled phytoplankton?


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NASA scientific sleuths solve mystery and help save the U.S. Constitution and other legendary icons of political prose.
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NASA Scientist Treks to Burning Man Festival
Dr. Betsy Pugel is a science liaison at this year's Burning Man, a week-long arts festival in the Nevada desert.
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How Satellite Data Can Warn of Famine
Molly Brown of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and her colleagues created a model using data from satellite remote sensing of crop growth and food prices.
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NASA Science Building "Breaks New Ground"
The three-story office and laboratory building that will be called the "Exploration Sciences Building" will be the new workplace for NASA scientists and engineers that study the solar system and the entire universe.
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Moon Buggy Palooza
Proving that hard work can be fun, NASA summer interns and employees chase the spirit of exploration in a moon buggy race.
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Retired NASA Scientist Probed Alien Atmospheres, Wins Award
Hasso Niemann, a recent NASA Goddard retiree, will receive the Al Seiff Memorial Award during a technical meeting in France.
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