Science

An asteroid estimated at $ 17.4 billion is approaching Earth

[ad_1] As citizens of the United States await a second round of financial stimulus from the government, another form of financial stimulus is coming from the skies. Unfortunately for any would-be space miner out there, the asteroid designated 2000 WO107 won’t be close enough for anyone on Earth to mine …

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How do faxes work?

[ad_1] Like a cross between a telephone and a printer, fax machines copy documents in one place and print them in another, even thousands of miles away. Before the ubiquity of computers and the high-speed Internet, and when the other options were regular mail or a courier, a fax machine …

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Against all odds, new stars are being born [Infographic]

[ad_1] Illustration of CQ 4479, a mysterious “cold quasar” that creates unlikely new stars image credit: NASA A research team from the University of Kansas has found something strange in the cosmos. A galaxy that is 5.25 billion light-years away has created new stars when that time should have passed …

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Scientists are proposing a completely new calendar, which is a journey

[ad_1] The chronology of the elements, developed mainly by a Russian chemist, Dmitry Mendeleev (1834-1907), celebrated its 150th anniversary last year. It is difficult to overestimate its importance as an organizing principle in chemistry: all emerging chemists know it from the earliest stages of their education. Given the importance of …

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