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What is chemistry? - New Scientist
Sitting between biology and physics, the field of chemistry is sometimes called the central science.This branch of science deals not with the most basic elements of reality, such as …
Biodiversity | What is it and why is it so important to life on Earth ...
Biodiversity covers the incredibly rich variety of life on Earth, from bacteria to plants, animals to humans, and is vital to the way our ecosystems function.
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What is inertia? - New Scientist
Inertia is not just a general law applicable only to objects with no forces acting upon them – which are physically implausible – but also a property of any object or body, in motion or at rest.
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From the earliest stone tools to the latest advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, blockchains and virtual reality, technology has continuously transformed our lives.
What is consciousness? - New Scientist
Consciousness is, for each of us, all there is: the world, the self, everything. But consciousness is also subjective and difficult to define.
What is gravity? - New Scientist
An apple falls from a tree. A planet orbits its sun. You labour your bicycle up a hill, and accelerate smoothly down the other side. All those things are down to gravity, working exactly as Isaac ...
We are closer than ever to finally proving the multiverse exists
Jun 25, 2024 · Multiverse ideas gained scientific weight in the 1980s with the invention of inflation, a period when the early universe suddenly expanded.Inflation explains why the cosmos is so …
Coin flips don't truly have a 50/50 chance of being heads or tails
Oct 17, 2023 · Mathematics Coin flips don't truly have a 50/50 chance of being heads or tails. Researchers who flipped coins 350,757 times have confirmed that the chance of landing the …