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What is thermodynamics?
Thermodynamics is the branch of physics that deals with the relationships between heat and other forms of energy.
One nasal droplet's worth of coronavirus is enough to make...
Researchers infected volunteers with the coronavirus for a new study.
Top 10 things that make humans special
Here are 10 things that make humans special when compared with the rest of the animal kingdom.
What is biology?
Broadly speaking, biology is the study of life.
This may be one of the oldest Buddhist temples ever discovered
An ancient temple dating from the early centuries of Buddhism has been unearthed in the Swat region of Pakistan.
10 of the biggest birds on Earth
Ostrich, albatross and pelicans are amongst some of the biggest birds on Earth.
Human spines on sticks found in 500-year-old graves in...
Reed-threaded vertebrae, some of which date to nearly 600 years ago, were found in tombs in coastal Peru. This unusual mortuary practice...
What is the third law of thermodynamics?
According to the third law of thermodynamics, the entropy of a perfect crystal is zero when the temperature of the crystal is equal...