Some of the deepest parts of the Black Sea are still responding to the climate change demanded by the last ice age, scientists have discovered – a period that officially ended about 12,000 years ago. Analysis of gas hydrate deposits – in this case methane trapped by water molecules, in …
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The smallest known main-order star in the Milky Way galaxy is the actual pixie of the object. It is called EBLM J0555-57Ab, a red dwarf light00 light-years away. With an average radius of about,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, It forms the smallest known star to support hydrogen fusion in its core, a process that …
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One of the many problems we have with the spread of COVID-19 is the ability of the coronavirus to survive on the surface for hours at a time. When we can effectively clean hard materials or sterilize them with alcohol, what about more delicate surfaces like cardboard? Even in the …
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Albert Edwards, a London-based provocative strategist for the French bank society Génrale, has been predicting for decades that the US and Western Europe will follow Japan into an era of deflation and ultrallo bond yields, which he calls the “Ice Age”. Even though some of his warnings about the stock …
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Zooming on a small corner of the cloud 7,500 light-years away, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured an interesting phase in the evolution of Baby Stars. It is called J025157.5 + 600606, and is the only (relatively) small bulge in the giant Soul Nebula (also known as Westerhaut 5) in …
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