Parkes Observatory in Australia In March 2015, astronomers at Parkes Observatory in Australia were trying to identify the source of radio signals picked up at the observatory and came up ...
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You can sniff an onion or peel the layers without shedding a tear, but once you crush, chop, or cut an onion, there’s a good chance those tear ducts will ...
In 2002, astronomers at Johns Hopkins University conducted a study to determine the color of the universe from the light we see. They averaged the light emitted from a large ...
Penicillin is considered one of the greatest achievements in medicine. This antibiotic allowed doctors to successfully treat and cure patients with deadly infectious diseases. Its discovery came by accident, its ...
CERMA, 1963 It’s well known that dogs, monkeys, and chimps made their way into space, which paved the way for humans to do the same. But did you there know ...
It’s known as “Black Gold” and “Texas Tea,” and it fuels our cars, airplanes, and ships so they can go, but what we get from an ordinary barrel of crude ...
Old Navy College, Greenwich, London, England It might not seem like the safest spot, but a 17th-century building in Greenwich, a town in southeast London, England, once contained a working ...
Six degrees of separation is the theory that any person can be connected to any other person through other people, with there being no more than five intermediaries between the ...
Moms everywhere have been known to tell their children to keep their heads covered in the cold because that is where most of the heat loss occurs in the body. ...
The most explosive chemical in the world is a high-nitrogen energetic material called 1-Diazidocarbamoyl-5-azidotetrazole or C2N14 and informally called “azidoazide azide.” C2N14 has 14 nitrogen and two carbon atoms, and ...
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