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WEBNew Scientist is the ultimate source of science news, articles, and features, covering the latest discoveries and innovations in science, technology, health and the environment. Whether you want ...
What is gravity? | New Scientist
WEBIt is the presence of large clumps of mass all over the universe, that ensures it determines how the universe works on a grand scale, on the level of planets, galaxies and clusters of galaxies. As ...
Meta: Why has Facebook changed its name and what is the …
WEBOct 29, 2021 · Facebook has rebranded itself as Meta in an attempt to own the metaverse, a concept for a 3D version of the internet that a number of companies are working on. By Chris Stokel-Walker. 29 October ...
What is reality? Why we still don't understand the world's true …
WEBJan 29, 2020 · What is reality anyway? Joshua Howgego. IT IS a big and bewildering concept, reality. An abstract way of saying “everything that there is”. That is a lot to take in: space, time, matter,…
Everything we know about the universe – and a few things we don't
WEBDec 30, 2020 · In the mid-1920s, astrophysicist George Lemaître showed that according to the theory, the universe wasn’t static but expanding– and would thus have been smaller in the past. Lemaître’s ...
This is the most detailed look at individual atoms ever captured
WEBJun 1, 2021 · Cornell. The highest-resolution image of atoms so far has been captured, breaking a record set in 2018. David Muller at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and his colleagues captured this ...
How old is Earth? | New Scientist
WEBCurrent estimates put the age of Earth at around 4.54 billion years, give or take about 50 million years, and like all other bodies in the solar system, Earth formed when a cloud of dust and gas ...
How long does evolution take? Darwin’s changes happen on two …
WEBJun 15, 2022 · If you condensed the entire 4.5 billion years of Earth’s existence into a 24-hour period, more than 3 million years would pass each minute. The dinosaurs would go extinct at 11.39 pm and 48 ...
Homo naledi is only 250,000 years old – here’s why that matters
WEBApr 25, 2017 · Homo naledi. is only 250,000 years old – here’s why that matters. In 2013, Lee Berger at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and his colleagues made an extraordinary discovery ...
A mouthful of history: How teeth reveal our evolutionary past
WEBJul 12, 2017 · Humans A mouthful of history: How teeth reveal our evolutionary past. Fossil incisors, canines, premolars and molars help pin down where we came from, but as Evolution's Bite shows, reading them ...
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