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Research Into the Impacts of a Changing Climate Supported by Two New NSF Programs

Several projects will investigate the impact of climate change on marine species. Climate change is affecting life on Earth at every scale – from the…

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Reverse Osmosis

There are a great many industries that produce effluent, or industrial waste water, and each of these sectors and organisations will require the use …

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3 Common Paintball Injuries That’ll Leave You With a Lot of Pain

You’re pumped and ready to go into your next paintball game. Everything is going great, but somewhere along the line you duck behind a barrel and tak…

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How Does Laser Pain Therapy Work?

Pain hurts. If you suffer from chronic pain, then you know that such a statement is no cause for a chuckle. You live with your pain as if it were an …

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Why Does The Earth Spin On It's Axis

First, we must understand what makes the earth spin on its axis. To do this, we need to examine two factors closely: gravity and inertia. Gravity is …

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Who Built the Pyramids?

It was the Egyptians who built the pyramids. The Great Pyramid is dated with all the evidence, I'm telling you now to 4,600 years, the reign of Khufu. The Great Pyramid of Khufu is one of 104 pyramids in Egypt with superstructure. And there are 54 pyramids with substructure.

What is the BigBang Theory

The Big Bang theory describes how the universe expanded from an initial state of high density and temperature. It is the prevailing cosmological model explaining the evolution of the observable universe from the earliest known periods through its subsequent large-scale form

would humans be able to live on mars?

While Mars's day and general composition is similar to Earth, the planet is hostile to life. Mars has an unbreathable atmosphere, thin enough that its temperature on average fluctuates between −70 and 0 °C (−94 and 32 °F), yet thick enough to cause planet-wide dust storms.

Who invented guns

The first firearms can be traced back to 10th century China. The Chinese were the first to invent gunpowder, and historians typically credit the first guns as being weapons the Chinese called fire lances. The fire lance was a metal or bamboo tube attached to the end of a spear.