Quarks are the particles that make up protons, neutrons and many other particles. There are six of them, classified into three generations while the name “quark” is borrowed from the book Finnegan’s Wake (by James Joyce).
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In the previous part, we learned a lot about the immune system and ended on the wondering note of bacteria fighting off bacteriophages, correct? So the main question arose behind the mechanisms of how exactly they protect their own DNA from being degraded as viral DNA? Let’s get into the details of this and expand our knowledge!
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As things stand now, NASA astronauts will fly to the Moon in 2028. Everything is constantly delayed when it comes to space flights.
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Photographs of celestial bodies have many advantages over direct observation. They record a single moment in time. As such, objects can be studied in detail when the observation is over. The information remains in a database, it can be processed and adapted to research needs and many more.
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The Sun is in its prime. It was formed in a gigantic cloud of gas and dust 4 billion and 600 million years ago, and consists of hydrogen (74%), helium (25%) and other gases (1%). In the core of the Sun, the temperature reaches an astonishing 15 million degrees Celsius.
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When physicists started talking about elementary particles and when they built sufficiently powerful accelerators to search for these particles, the number of new particles began to grow rapidly.
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Yes, folks, this is no joke. As Reuters writes on November 5, Japanese researchers have made a space satellite out of wood and recently sent it into space! How crazy is that?
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We have all studied some concepts related to this question. In fact, it’s an idea that has been circulating throughout the education system, right? We could all say our own learnings on this topic, yet we rarely wonder how it all started.
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Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is old and huge. It was formed 13.61 billion years ago, and is the second largest in the Local Cluster, right after the Andromeda Galaxy.
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Almost all SF writers and scientists who speculate about the future of our civilization or other extraterrestrial civilizations have a similar scenario, which follows the expansion of those civilizations throughout the local galaxy.
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