Plants and Animals
The Internet Is Swooning Over This “Hot Pigeon”
“Sexy Koala” and “Hanky Kangaroo” aside, the internet has a new animal crush (and no, we are not talking about the recent Lola Bunny incident).…
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Sit Back, Relax, and Watch the Aurora Borealis Light up Earth from the ISS
The Northern Lights are undoubtedly one of the most spectacular sights in the world, but if you really want to indulge in their earthly beauty,…
Physics
Physicists Have Measured The Smallest Gravitational Field Yet
Scientists at the University of Vienna have now measured the smallest known gravitational field. As revealed in nature, the researchers measured the gravitational pull two…
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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)…
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,…
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