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Global temperatures over last 24,000 years show today's warming ...
Nov 10, 2021 · The magnitude and rate warming over the last 150 years far surpasses the magnitude and rate of changes over the last 24,000 years. "This reconstruction suggests that current temperatures are ...
How far are the planets from the Sun? - Phys.org
Apr 22, 2014 · Closest: 1.35 billion km / 839 million miles (9.05 AU) Furthest: 1.51 billion km / 938 million miles (10.12 AU) Average: 1.43 billion km / 889 million miles (9.58 AU) Closest to Saturn from Earth ...
How social media is changing the way people get to know one …
Oct 27, 2021 · Credit: Unsplash/User dole777. Social media has the ability to connect us with almost anyone in the world, but it can also change the way brains form new social relationships, maintain current ...
Flat wrong: the misunderstood history of flat Earth theories
Jan 29, 2016 · Turtles all the way down. However, from at least the 6th century BCE, the theory of the flat Earth began to fall out of favour. By the time we get to Aristotle in the 4th century BCE, the idea of ...
A universe of 10 dimensions - Phys.org
Dec 11, 2014 · Superstring theory posits that the universe exists in 10 dimensions at once. Credit: Piner at Caedes.net. When someone mentions "different dimensions," we tend to think of things like parallel ...
Earth's orbit around the sun - Phys.org
Nov 24, 2014 · First of all, the speed of the Earth's orbit around the Sun is 108,000 km/h, which means that our planet travels 940 million km during a single orbit. The Earth completes one orbit every 365. ...
How does the sun produce energy? - Phys.org
Dec 14, 2015 · The core is the only part of the sun that produces an appreciable amount of heat through fusion. In fact, 99% of the energy produced by the sun takes place within 24% of the sun's radius. By 30% ...
Biology News - Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology ...
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