For some people, the significance of Lake Bosumtwi goes beyond geology. Sacred to some members of the local villages, its ...

Ufology has always been a fringe field divided between those curious about UFOs and those who believe in cover-ups, but now ...

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So how do rockets move in space? With a little help from Newton's third law and the conservation of momentum, of course.

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This is the so-called entropy catastrophe. This critical temperature, where a superheated solid and a liquid have the same entropy, is around three times the melting temperature. Gold has a melting ...

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The solar wind plasma goes from moving at about 400 kilometers per second (900,000 miles per hour) to being diverted and ...

Scientists at the University of Western Ontario, Industrial University of Santander in Colombia, and the United States ...

James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, ...

Waking from non-REM sleep, in contrast, is more of a gradual process – and it has an extra step, with alertness starting slowly in a central “hub” in the brain. It’s only after that that the standard ...