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5-minute science: Explosives and Nobel Prize - A Summa of Human Achievement Founded in Vanity

5-minute science: Explosives and Nobel Prize - A Summa of Human Achievement Founded in Vanity

Nitroglycerin For centuries, the only dependable explosive for use was gunpowder (now called black powder) which contains carbon, sulfur, a...
5-minute science: Why are insects smaller now?

5-minute science: Why are insects smaller now?

During the Paleozoic era , the Earth teemed with giant insects, from dragonflies the size of seagulls, spiders as wide as tires, to mayflies...
5-minute science: Laniakea - The Immeasurable Heaven

5-minute science: Laniakea - The Immeasurable Heaven

Quantities like 100 trillion kilometers are extremely unwieldy to write (100,000,000,000,000), let alone use, but when can we use that big o...
5-minute science: The 170,000-year-old Sunlight

5-minute science: The 170,000-year-old Sunlight

When you go outside on a sunny day, you'll feel the heat and brightness of the Sun. These are the everyday experiences we might take for...
The Chemical Tale of Silicon

The Chemical Tale of Silicon

Atoms  (skip this if you still remember school chemistry) figure 1 - natrium All atoms contain negative particles called electrons, which re...

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