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What is Venus?

[ad_1] Venus is the second planet to orbit our Sun in the Solar System. Circling at an average distance of about 108 million kilometers (about 67 million miles) from the Sun, it lies between the orbits of Mercury and Earth. While it takes our planet just under 24 hours to …

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What Microsoft’s Bethesda Purchase Really Means

[ad_1] Just hours before worldwide pre-orders opened for its next generation of consoles, the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, Microsoft dropped a Fall out-style Megaton – with news that I was acquiring Zenimax Media, the privately owned parent company of Bethesda for $ 7.5 billion dollars. Before the …

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The Blade joke from Fortnite | PCGamesN

[ad_1] The Marvel-themed Fortnite season is moving on, but the heroes, villains, and powers of the first wave seem to have made their debut. So is anyone else on the way? It seems like the answer is yes, as both Marvel and Epic have been teasing the debut of at …

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Tesla battery day disappointed investors: Quartz

[ad_1] On Tesla’s “Battery Day” yesterday, the focus was on two magic numbers: $ 100 per kilowatt-hour and 1 million miles. Battery costs need to be reduced to around $ 100 per kWh for electric vehicles (EVs) to achieve cost parity with internal combustion engines. And a battery that lasts …

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The glucans in SARS-CoV-2 can help the virus infect cells

[ad_1] Credit: ACS Cent. Sci. The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is thickly covered in glucans (dark blue). Researchers have created the most comprehensive atomic-level simulation to date of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, which the virus uses to enter host cells. The model reveals that glucans not only camouflage the virus from …

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