Washington, August 13: Research suggests the continents of Earth were formed by massive meteorite impacts that were particularly common during the first billion years of our planet’s four-and-a-half billion-year history. Dr Tim Johnson, from Curtin’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said the idea that the continents originally formed at sites of giant meteorite impacts …
Natalya was recently presented with three official documents from the Guinness World Records, but eagle-eyed fans have spotted an error in printing. The three-time WWE champion is also one of the most tenured performers in company history. This has led to her earning certain Guinness World Records, the documents for which she received this week. …
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When my oldest son was 3, he watched one of the consensus worst animated movies, Planes: Fire and Rescue, roughly four times a week. To be clear, this is a conservative estimate. An estimate designed to make myself feel better. An estimate to make you think I’m less of a horror show parent than I …
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Before leaving Bennu, OSIRIS-REx spent more than two years close to the asteroid. It monitored and gathered information about Bennu’s size, shape, mass, composition, spin, and original trajectory. The sample of rock collected from the asteroid’s surface will be delivered to Earth on September 24, 2023, for further scientific investigation. “The OSIRIS-REx data give us …
On August 15, 1947, at the crack of dawn, our country kickstarted a whole new journey as the ‘Independent India’. But with freedom came uncertainty and hurdles like lack of resources and internal turmoil, which had the potential to prevent the nation from progressing. Despite these struggles, the newly formed independent India continued to grow …
Build some alien’s dream home! During the August 12 THQ Nordic Showcase, we were introduced to an adorable new builder simulator game. Published by THQ Nordic and developed by Mirage Game Studios, Space for Sale gives you, a petite intergalactic property developer, the chance to make the big bucks. It turns out that buying a …
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By Mark Maslin, UCL for The Conversation The food we consume has a massive impact on our planet. Agriculture takes up half the habitable land on Earth, destroys forests and other ecosystems and produces a quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Meat and dairy specifically account for around 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. …
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More than 5,000 planets exist beyond our solar system, according to NASA, and this week astronomers announced they may have discovered the youngest one yet. Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile report in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters the first-ever detection of gas in a circumplanetary disk, collections of dust …
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In the space before me, an app (Atomic Clock) measures the moment in 1/100th of a second, so quickly that the numbers quiver and flash into unreadability (you try counting 99 numbers a second). That’s how swiftly the moment sweeps us along with it or, perhaps, how swiftly the moment leaves us behind (kind of …
New research highlights a troubling problem with concepts of a cyclical universe that experiences infinitely alternating periods of rapid expansion and contraction, known as ‘bouncing universe’ models. These bouncing universe models suggest the cosmos has no beginning, eliminating the need for a troubling singularity prior to the initial period of rapid inflation — commonly known …
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