If a surgeon came to the operating room wearing a mask they had made that morning with a dish cloth, they would probably be fired. This is because equipment used for important tasks, such as surgery, must be tested and certified to ensure compliance with specific standards. But anyone can …
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The energy generated by nuclear fusion has great potential as a clean and almost limitless source of energy, but many obstacles must be overcome before it becomes a practical reality, and scientists may have escaped from another. New models of an unwanted fusion phenomenon called ‘chirping’, where vital heat can …
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Scientists, for the first time, discovered an active leakage of methane gas from the seabed in Antarctica. It is a process that is likely to accelerate the process of global warming. The finding was published in the peer review. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Scientific journal on Tuesday. Methane …
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Astrophysicists released the largest 3D map of the Universe on Monday, the result of an analysis of more than 4 million ultra-bright and energetic quasars and quasars. The efforts of hundreds of scientists from around 30 institutions worldwide have yielded a “complete story of the expansion of the Universe,” said …
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One would think that at least 184 million years of evolution on completely separate continents would be enough to make two species of fish sexually incompatible. That was the assumption of scientists in Hungary when they placed sperm from an American oarfish near the eggs of a Russian sturgeon in …
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