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What is friction?
Friction plays an important part in many everyday processes, such as converting the energy of motion into heat.
Ancient Troy: The city and the legend
Troy is an ancient city in modern-day Turkey, but it is also the setting for the legendary Trojan War in Homer's epic poems the "Iliad"...
Mt. Everest's highest glacier lost 2,000 years worth of...
The highest glacier on Mount Everest is losing ice at an alarming rate, new research finds.
Pet hamsters sparked a coronavirus outbreak in Hong Kong
A pet shop worker was the first to be infected.
What is the second law of thermodynamics?
The Second Law of Thermodynamics says, in simple terms, entropy always increases. This principle explains, for example, why you can't...
Rogue black hole spotted on its own for the first time
Astronomers may have for the first time detected and measured the mass of an isolated stellar-mass black hole, a new study finds.
NASA asteroid detector 'looks up' to scan entire sky every...
The addition of two southern hemisphere telescopes will enable ATLAS to do full sky scans.
Ice age mammoth, woolly rhino and hyena bones uncovered...
The remains are expected to be placed in a local museum.