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How plate tectonics upended our understanding of Earth
WEBJan 13, 2021 · Kevin Schafer/Alamy Stock Photo. Plate tectonics describes how Earth’s entire, 100-kilometer-thick outermost layer, called the lithosphere, is broken into a jigsaw puzzle of plates — slabs of ...
How physicists revealed subatomic particles and cracked matter’s ...
WEBThe paradigm held back theoretical descriptions of the neutron and the positron, two particles found one after the other in 1932. And another would-be new particle, the neutrino, proposed in 1930 ...
The black hole at the Milky Way's center has finally been unveiled ...
WEBMay 12, 2022 at 9:38 am. There’s a new addition to astronomers’ portrait gallery of black holes. Astronomers announced May 12 that they have finally assembled an image of the supermassive ...
Fatal fix: How an opioid overdose shuts down your body - Science …
WEBThe potent latches onto empty opioid receptors, preventing other opioids from triggering the cell to take actions that can shut down breathing or freeze muscles. Usually injected or inhaled ...
The world’s fastest supercomputer just broke the exascale barrier
WEBJun 1, 2022 · Oak Ridge’s Frontier clocked in at about 1.1 exaflops, or 1.1 quintillion operations per second. Frontier beat out the previous record-holder, a supercomputer called Fugaku at the RIKEN Center ...
How scientists took the first picture of a black hole - Science News
WEBApr 10, 2019 · Though scientists have collected plenty of indirect evidence for black holes over the last half century, “seeing is believing.”. Creating that first-ever portrait of a black hole was tricky ...
Changing climate: 10 years after An Inconvenient Truth - Science …
WEBApr 8, 2016 · Nearly 10 years after An Inconvenient Truth, 195 nations agreed to try to curb climate change. While Al Gore argued in the film that swift action was needed to prevent long-term problems ...
Here are the James Webb Space Telescope's first images - Science …
WEBJul 11, 2022 · Probing a planet. JWST took a spectrum of light from the star WASP 96 filtering through the atmosphere of its giant planet WASP 96b. The bumps and wiggles show how much light at various ...
150 years ago, the periodic table began with one chemist’s vision
WEBJan 8, 2019 · 150 years ago, Mendeleev perceived the relationships of the chemical elements. REVOLUTIONARY Russian chemist Dmitrii Mendeleev (shown around 1880) was the first to publish a periodic table, which ...
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