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The 119th birthday of Irène Joliot-Curie, who won the Nobel Prize for discovering induced radioactivity
50th anniversary of the discovery of the pulsar, for which the Nobel Prize was not awarded to the scientist who found it, but only to her supervisor
The discovery of gravitational waves has enabled the real-time detection of a high-energy collision and the study of its repercussions
Is darkness especially deep just before dawn? not really…
Most stars are spherical, but some are “squashed”, or even look like a peanut or a funnel. How does this happen?
145th birthday of Ernest Rutherford, the discoverer of the atomic structure who opened the era of nuclear research
What is dark matter? Why is the universe expanding? How does quantum mechanics go with relativity?
It seems almost simple – all you need to do is connect a number of hydrogen atoms to one helium atom and get energy
The third part in the video series explains two important topics in quantum mechanics.
It all has to do with density (mass per unit of volume). Any material whose density is lower than that of water will float, and any material with a higher density will sink.
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