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In 1868 astronomers found a new element in the Sun’s light, named it helium for the Greek word for the Sun, and no one found a trace of it on Earth for another 27 years
Nearly three kilometres beneath a Canadian mine, geologists found water that may have been isolated in the rock for roughly two billion years — older than animals, plants and almost everything we think of as complex life. The brine was so salty and bitter that, when one researcher tasted it, she was sampling a flavour shaped by a world humans never knew
Every drawing of a yellow Sun is technically wrong — seen from space, where no atmosphere filters its light, the Sun is white, a full-spectrum star burning at around 5,778 kelvin; the yellow is an artefact that exists only inside Earth’s atmosphere, not in the Sun itself
Quiz: Can You Name All 8 Planets Without Hesitating?
Scientists have detected a giant fan-shaped structure buried beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, suggesting the frozen continent may be hiding the geological scars of the breakup that helped separate Antarctica from Australia
Everyone with ordinary inherited blue eyes appears to share a common ancestor, probably someone who lived around 6,000 to 10,000 years ago, when a tiny genetic switch near the OCA2 gene reduced brown pigment in the iris — meaning blue eyes, as we know them today, may trace back to one ancient mutation.
Raising Future Leaders: Why Family Education Is The Cornerstone Of Character Development
Why do stars appear different colors in the night sky?
Around 252 million years ago, volcanoes across what is now Siberia erupted repeatedly for more than a million years, releasing perhaps 100,000 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide and helping wipe out roughly 90 per cent of marine species in the deadliest mass extinction Earth has ever known
In 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev arranged the known elements into a table and left gaps for what had not yet been discovered, but the detail that makes the periodic table remarkable is that chemistry became organized enough to predict missing pieces of reality
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Broken strings? Lifeless tone? Terrible playing? It’s not you… It’s your strings: How to restring a guitar fast to play and sound great again
Taylor Swift has just reminded us of the best aspect of a school education
Quote of the day by Aristotle: ‘Knowing yourself is the beginning of wisdom’
If a bee searching for nectar might be conscious and ChatGPT almost certainly isn’t, what exactly were we measuring when we decided something was aware?
Why skills will power India’s journey to Viksit Bharat@2047
The single loudest sound ever recorded was the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in 1883 — heard from approximately 4,800 kilometers away in the middle of the Indian Ocean — with a sound wave so powerful it traveled around the entire planet four times, was measured on barometers thousands of miles distant, and ruptured the eardrums of sailors aboard ships up to 65 kilometers from the eruption site
Quiz: Can You Identify All the Asian Countries From Their Capitals? Almost No One Can
Student shares emotional note after failing to get into IIT Madras: 'I studied 10 to 12 hours daily'
Seven miles beneath the Pacific Ocean, in the deepest place on Earth, American explorer Victor Vescovo descended in 2019 to a depth where the pressure equals 50 jumbo jets stacked overhead — and at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, where no light has ever reached, he found a plastic bag and several candy wrappers waiting on the seabed.
