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On the Ground find pieces of Mars. How they got here?
When the planets revolve around the Sun, separated by a good distance, we think that they are not in contact and share material. The solar system can be a cruel place, where asteroids are falling and flying comets, but the planets themselves seem too big and massive, in order to participate. When large shocks affect…
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WhatsApp Bans 100,000 Accounts Before Brazilian Election, Which Is Still a Real Mess
Brazil’s far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro.Photo: Silvia Izquierdo (AP) Facebook subsidiary and encrypted chat service WhatsApp has banned more than 100,000 accounts ahead of the upcoming federal elections in Brazil, where leftist Workers’ Party candidate Fernando Haddad will face down far-right populist Jair Bolsonaro, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Facebook has recently bragged nonstop about its…
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Watch These Serene Elephants Smash the Shit Out of Some Gourds
Participating elephant smashing some squash.Photo: Oregon Zoo Every year leading up to its annual Halloween festivities, the Oregon Zoo kicks the party off with a grand display of gourd-smashing, officially titled the Squishing of the Squash. But lest you thought it was children or even people squashing the gourds, you would be mistaken. Instead, the…
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Large Steel Balls Wreak Havoc on Seattle Neighborhood After Driver Fails to Secure His Load
Image: LeoNeoBoy (Pixabay) The Seattle Police Department (SPD) was forced to shut down a road in West Seattle on Wednesday after a semi-truck unleashed its massive load of steel balls onto its streets. The 2-pound grinding balls, ultimately totaling a dumped load of 44,000 pounds of steel, wreaked havoc on the neighborhood and damaged several…
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Report: Tech-Loving Saudi Prince Suspected in Jamal Khashoggi’s Death Has Twitter Troll Army
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Wireless charging for electric vehicles at 120 kW: as fast as at a gas station?
Scientists from the Department of energy National laboratory oak ridge has demonstrated a 120 kW wireless charging system for transportation — six times more powerful than the previous technologies ORNL and a big step in the direction of reduce the charging time. Scientists hope that one day electric cars can be recharged at “filling” stations…
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Biologists have found a way to create plants that can survive on other planets
The construction of a colony of Earthmen outside of our planet rests on one very serious problem: the lack of resources for food, agriculture and, of course, oxygen. All these problems could be solved if the earth’s flora can grow beyond the third planet from the Sun, but numerous experiments suggests that it is not.…
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Scientists from MIT said that could be responsible for the development of intelligence
Despite the fact that the nervous system of humans and other mammals already studied well enough how some of its aspects still remains a mystery. For example, if we compare the structure of the brain of humans and our closest of kin creatures primates, differences are not so much. However, all this does not explain…
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If you didn’t know: what is the difference between a comet and an asteroid?
In our Solar system there are many things that revolve around the Sun — that is, are in his orbit. The earth goes around the Sun for 365 days. Seven other planets also go around the Sun together with its satellites, and together with them and other things, including asteroids and comets. But what is…
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Large Adult Son Threatens to Sue Landlord
Julian Assange speaks to media from the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy on May 19, 2017 in London, EnglandPhoto: Getty Images Julian Assange threatened legal action against the country of Ecuador today. What’s Assange upset about? The WikiLeaks founder doesn’t like that Ecuador has cut off his internet access and more or less told him…