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2019-05-11 @ 16.50.59 ∈ In English

Why Are 96,000,000 Black Balls on This Reservoir? - YouTube
The first time I heard about shade balls the claim was they reduce evaporation. But it turns out this isn't the reason they were introduced.
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2019-04-11 @ 16.47.02 ∈ In English

How to Understand the Image of a Black Hole
We have just seen the first image of a black hole, the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87 with a mass 6.5 billion times that of our sun. But what is that image really showing us?
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2019-04-05 @ 14.47.53 ∈ In English

What If We Detonated All Nuclear Bombs at Once?
What happens if we make a huge pile from all 15,000 nuclear bombs and pull the trigger? And what happens if we make an even bigger pile?
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2019-03-15 @ 18.23.24 ∈ Suomeksi

Pelko yllytti katsomaan teloitusvideoita
Videoita katselivat todennäköisemmin miehet, työttömät, kristityt ja ne, jotka katselivat keskimääräistä enemmän televisiota.
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2019-02-21 @ 14.59.55 ∈ Suomeksi

Tutkijat pukivat hevosia seeproiksi ja ratkaisivat seeprojen raitojen tarkoituksen: Ne ovat mahtava paarmankarkotin
Tutkijat havaitsivat, että paarmat eivät onnistuneet hiljentämään vauhtiaan raitojen läheisyydessä. Tämä esti niitä tekemästä hallittuja laskeutumisia seepran turkille.
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2019-02-12 @ 18.19.28 ∈ Suomeksi

Maailman hyönteiset eivät ole katoamassa seuraavan sadan vuoden aikana
Tuoreet uutiset hyönteiskadosta liiottelevat hyönteislajien alamäkeä. Alkuperäinen tutkimus pureutuu hyönteisten häviämisen syihin, ei sen laajuuteen.
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2019-01-24 @ 11.25.18 ∈ In English

Freak wave created in lab mirrors Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’
A team of researchers at the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh have worked out how freak waves can happen. […] The experiments were carried out in the FloWave Ocean Energy Research facility at the University Of Edinburgh.
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2019-01-18 @ 12.34.21 ∈ In English

Team of scientists led by U of T identify period of increased asteroid impacts on ancient Earth by studying the moon
In a study published today in Science, the team shows the number of asteroid impacts on the moon and Earth increased by two to three times starting around 290 million years ago.
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2019-01-03 @ 13.28.34 ∈ In English

Study shows the Sahara swung between lush and desert conditions every 20,000 years
[This] climatic pendulum is mainly driven by changes to the Earth’s axis as the planet orbits the sun, which in turn affect the distribution of sunlight between seasons — every 20,000 years, the Earth swings from more sunlight in summer to less, and back again.