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Dan and Ada Rice lived as true horse people do. Their estate, separating Wheaton and Naperville, looked as if it belonged in Kentucky bluegrass country with its white-fenced paddocks, hickory trees, a...

Close Small snowflakes of radioactive uranium that causes huge nuclear explosions may clarify some of the worlds more bizarre star blasts. (Photo : Peter Dopper) Death of the Miniature Stars As miniature stars die, they cool into husks of their old selves called white dwarfs. A recent study suggests that atoms of uranium sink to the core of these aging white dwarf stars as they cool, icing into snowflake-like crystals no larger than grains of sand.  Illinois State Universitys theoretical physi...