The first artificial sweetener – Sac Charin – was discovered by accident, when in 1879, Ira Rimsen, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, saw a sweet substance on his hand after experimenting with various chemicals in a laboratory. Sac Cherin quickly became very popular, mainly because of how cheap it …
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It is the largest and strangest of all the formations on Earth: huge, mysterious blobs of ga ense stone hidden deep in the lower parts of our planet’s mantle. These include two large populations called the Large Low-Shear-Vagilance Provinces (LLSVPs) – one buried under Africa and the other under the …
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Despite dominating the planet’s surface for millions of years, dinosaur diversity reached a dramatic conclusion at the end of the planet’s impact on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, about 66 million years ago. It is so swollen with data that it is hard to imagine any room for suspicion that this …
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In its 6.6 billion year long history, Mars has taken its punch right from damaging asteroids and handling comets. Today, the surface of the Red Planet is covered by less than 43,000 impact craters, more than a kilometer long; Some ancient regions have suffered much more than others. In the …
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Something that largely exists in just two dimensions, graphene seems everywhere. The super-thin ‘wonder material’ is famous not only for its incredible strength, but also for its unique, often surprising combination in thermal and electromagnetic properties. In recent times, graphene research has led to many bizarre experimental discoveries when scientists …
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