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Rare Meteorite from Spectacular Fireball Turns out to Be First of Its Kind to fall in the UK
On February 28, 2021, a bright fireball lit up the sky over the British Isles. The original space was flying at 14 kilometers (9 miles)…
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Plants and Animals
Making A Megalodon: The Evolving Science Behind Estimating The Size Of The Largest Ever Killer Shark
The giant prehistoric Carcharocles megalodon (or Otodus megalodon for some researchers) was the largest predatory shark swimming in the oceans of the world. Scientific evidence megalodon lived 16 million to…
Environment
Is This The Best Place In The World To See Rainbows?
As if someone needed to travel to Hawaii, a newly published research paper explains why the archipelago is the best place to see the world’s…
Chemistry
Carbocatalysis – a form of catalysis
Catalyst, in chemistry, is a substance that increases the rate of a reaction without itself being consumed. Carbocatalysis is a form of catalysis that uses…
Chemistry
Graphite oxide – a compound of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen in variable ratios
Graphite oxides contain oxygen and hydroxide radicals in various amounts, which make covalent bonds with carbon and, as a consequence, a layer of carbon atoms…
Finance
Puttable Bond
A puttable bond (also known as a putable bond, putable bond, or retractable bond) is a debt instrument that enables bondholders to force the issuer…
Plants and Animals
17 Previously “Extinct” European Plant Species Brought Out Of Extinction
According to the IUCN Red List Guidelines: “Taxation is abolished if there no reasonable suspicion that the last person died.” However, a recent study published…
Chemistry
Graphene oxide paper – a material fabricated from graphite oxide
Graphene oxide (GO) is the oxidized form of graphene. Graphene Oxide Paper is a circular, flexible black sheet of graphene oxide (GO) 4 cm in…
Geography
Mount Hood, Portland
Mount Hood is a potentially active stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc, and it is one of the most climbed glaciated peaks in North America,…
Chemistry
Buckypaper – a thin sheet made from an aggregate of carbon nanotubes
Buckypaper is a new material that is very resistant and lightweight; it is manufactured using compressed carbon nanotubes (CNT). It is a thin sheet made…
Technology
Twistor memory – a type of computer memory
Twistor memory is a type of computer memory that predated modern-day RAM and was eventually replaced by it. It is a form of computer memory…
Finance
Revenue Bond
A revenue bond is a type of municipal bond in which the obligation’s repayment is mainly guaranteed by the entity’s operating revenues. Dissimilar to general…
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