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Place where there has been no rain for two million years
(ORDO NEWS) — If we’re asked to imagine the driest place on Earth, we’re likely to imagine a remote place littered with sand and dunes and located in a hot region—like the Sahara. However, the researchers point out that everything is not as obvious as we might assume. This was reported by IFLScience. According to NASA, one of the driest places on our planet, indeed, is the Atacama Desert located in Chile. Some areas…
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China builds world’s largest solar telescope system
(ORDO NEWS) — This is a huge array of telescopes with a diameter of more than six kilometers. In China, the construction of the Daocheng radio telescope has been completed. It is spread out on a plateau in Sichuan province in southwest China, consists of 313 “plates” with a diameter of six meters each and forms a circle with a diameter of 6.35 kilometers. After tuning and preliminary testing, this…
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For the first time in history, a drug made from human feces has been approved
(ORDO NEWS) — US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the first time approved treatment using donor human excrement. The drug, called Rebiota, contains gut bacteria collected from the stool of healthy donors and is approved to prevent a potentially life-threatening bacterial infection. By injecting fluid into a patient’s rectum through a tube, doctors can help rebalance their gut microbiome, a community of microbes that live in the lower digestive…
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This amazing elevator will take passengers to Mars in just 61 days
(ORDO NEWS) — The astronauts presented a project that will allow people to easily and quickly move in space, writes Keji Daily. It’s about the elevator. Adapted to the new conditions, it will carry passengers to the Moon and Mars. Space colonization will soon become not a dream, but a reality. Entering the elevator, pressing the up button and going into space would be great, wouldn’t it? At the 2022…
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Scientists discover more and more new “zombie viruses”
(ORDO NEWS) — An international team of researchers has discovered several viruses in permafrost that are tens of thousands of years old. Viruses managed to “resurrect” in the laboratory and decipher their genome. The team included French, German and Russian scientists. Melting permafrost caused by climate change could lead to the awakening of a huge number of ancient viruses. This was reported by a group of European researchers who said…
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VLT telescope reveals closest pair of supermassive black holes known to science
(ORDO NEWS) — Using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered the closest pair of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) ever observed in the history of science. In addition, the distance between these two SMBHs is unprecedentedly small in the entire history of space observations, and ultimately the two black holes will merge into one. Karina Vogel (KT Vogel) and her team were able to determine the masses of…
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Quantum world: how are sterile neutrinos and dark matter related?
(ORDO NEWS) — The most common particles in nature, with the exception of photons (particles of light), are neutrinos. They have no charge and come from the Sun, as well as from supernovae and other cosmic events. Moreover, about a trillion neutrinos are passing through your hand right now! Scientists identify several types or varieties of neutrinos: electron, muon and tau neutrinos, and also hope for the existence of a…
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What is dark matter that is constantly talked about in films
(ORDO NEWS) — It sounds like science fiction to say that there are invisible, undetectable things around us, and that it has a creepy name for dark matter. But there is a lot of evidence that this stuff is very real. So what is dark matter? How do we know it’s there? And how are scientists looking for it? Everything that we see around us – from plants to planets,…
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Neuralizer from “Men in Black” already exists
(ORDO NEWS) — Japanese scientists have managed to erase memories from the brain of a mouse. When we are preparing for the exam, many advise not to start this at the last moment and be sure to get some sleep before the crucial day. In addition to the fact that the lack of sleep can affect other processes, its most important role is in the process of transferring information from…
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Why Yellowstone volcano is considered the most dangerous in the world
(ORDO NEWS) — Perhaps there is no such person who would not have heard of the Yellowstone volcano. Its giant caldera, which occupies a third of Yellowstone National Park, is the largest supervolcano in North America, and more recently it has also been the object of close attention of scientists and fans of volcanology. Yellowstone is a dormant supervolcano, but its activity has grown rapidly in recent years. Many researchers argue that a…
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Scientists have named exercises to lower blood pressure
(ORDO NEWS) — When blood pressure rises, this has an extremely negative effect not only on the blood vessels, but also on absolutely all internal organs. As a result, a variety of serious pathologies can begin to develop. Most experts have conducted research and concluded that it is possible to minimize the risk of developing hypertension with the help of special physical exercises, which should be performed on a regular…
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The earth is dimmer than literally 17 years ago
(ORDO NEWS) — Scientists have conducted a study that has shown that our planet is no longer as bright as it was literally a couple of decades ago. They believe that rapid climate change may be the reason. It is reported by Forbes. When the Sun shines on the Earth, it reflects about a third of this light back into outer space. But due to the fact that the oceans…
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700 asteroids may fall to Earth in the next 100 years
(ORDO NEWS) — Chinese experts have analyzed the global database of asteroids and calculated how they will behave in the orbit of our planet. They managed to establish that more than 700 cosmic bodies in the next hundred years can crash into the Earth. If we talk about the total number of asteroids, then there can be from one hundred thousand and up to a million. Reported by SCMP. The…
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Scientists talk about the most mysterious power of nature
(ORDO NEWS) — Experts say gravity is a fundamental phenomenon. It is incredibly powerful and due to this it can easily lead to the curvatures that occur in the fabric of space-time. Life could not exist without gravity, because it is she who holds everything in our Universe in its place. This phenomenon was the reason for the formation of the solar system. Also, gravity affects the nuclear fusion that…
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“Miracle House”: volcanic lava bypassed the villa of retirees in the Canary Islands
(ORDO NEWS) — The network quickly spread a photo of a house located on the Spanish island of Palma (Canary Islands). It was not destroyed by lava after the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano. It happened on September 19. Users gave it the name “miracle house”. It is worth noting that almost 200 houses were destroyed by lava, as well as banana plantations. The building that has survived is…
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Divers cleaned up garbage on the seabed and found a treasure
(ORDO NEWS) — Two divers, Luis Lens and Cesar Gimeno, cleaned up garbage on the seabed near the province of Alicante, which is located in eastern Spain. At a depth of seven meters, they found a real treasure, consisting of Roman gold coins, which have been preserved in perfect condition. Reported by the Daily Mail. The divers returned to the place where the find was made two hours later. They…
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Cavers said they found at the bottom of the Yemeni “well of hell”
(ORDO NEWS) — Cavers from the Oman Cave Exploration Team (OCET) were the first of all specialists to sink to the bottom of the world famous Barkhout well. This miracle has a natural origin and the locals are very much afraid of it. Many believed that this was a prison that was reserved only for geniuses. AFP reports. He was nicknamed “the well of hell.” It is located in the…
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The level of the oceans rises catastrophically quickly
(ORDO NEWS) — Every year, the problem of climate change on Earth is becoming more serious. Over the past decade, the amount of ice in the Arctic has decreased by 13% when comparing these figures with 1979. Due to the fact that the ice is actively melting and the oceans have become warmer, the level of the World Ocean is increasing by 3.1 mm annually. This indicator is called by…
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The reason for the formation of a huge ozone hole over the Arctic
(ORDO NEWS) — Experts note the fact that ozone holes appear extremely rarely over the Arctic, but in the near future the situation may change dramatically. They conducted a study, the results of which showed that the huge ozone hole that arose over the Arctic last year was the result of low temperatures in the North Pacific Ocean. This is reported by Science Alert. This hole was closed in the…
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Every person is surrounded by a mysterious energy field – scientists say
(ORDO NEWS) — Biochemist John Norman of the University of Maryland and his colleagues are confident that they have found evidence for the existence of a bioenergy field around people. Spiritual communities have been talking about the existence of this mysterious field for thousands of years, but scientists, including John Norman, Dr. Hansen, William H. van den Berg of the University of Pennsylvania and William van der Slyest of Gettysburg…
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Scientists beat “bearded” skull and receive the Schnabel Peace Prize
(ORDO NEWS) — American researchers received the Schnabel Peace Prize for their research on the role of the beard in fighting. Biologists Ethan Beseris, Stephen Neilway and David Carrier decided to tackle the issue when another scientific dispute nearly ended in a scuffle. Scientists tested the hypothesis that people decided to grow a beard because they didn’t want to get punched in the face. In the course of experiments with…
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Scientists have learned to extract lithium from water
(ORDO NEWS) — A team of researchers from the University of Texas (Austin, USA) has developed a new method for extracting lithium from water. Scientists have created a method for extracting lithium from polluted water, which can significantly reduce the cost of the metal used in the manufacture of electronics. Today, lithium is produced using a long and very expensive process with the preparation of brines and the use of…
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In Japan, people develop a sixth sense
(ORDO NEWS) — It’s about echolocation. By itself, this feeling is unusual for the human species. It’s too early to talk about successful experiments. However, scientists from Japan are actively trying to educate people to use some aspects of echolocation. Researchers from Japan have every reason to believe that such a practice, in theory, can yield fruitful results. This is evidenced by a May study by British scientists. For two…
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Yeti uses infrasound for protection
(ORDO NEWS) — There are many versions about what could have ruined Dyatlov’s tourist detachment at the pass of the Northern Urals, which was later named after him. One of them names the effect of infrasound as the cause. There is no doubt that when people encounter something that does not fit into the usual picture of the world, for example, a yeti, lake monsters or UFOs, their emotions increase…
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Stephen Hawking’s theorem on the properties of a black hole is proved
(ORDO NEWS) — Physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have proven Stephen Hawking’s theorem, which states that the area of a black hole’s event horizon cannot decrease. The paradox is that this statement contradicts another prediction of the famous physicist, according to which black holes evaporate over time. The research results are published in the journal Physical Review Letters. The scientific work is briefly described in a press release…
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NASA found life on Mars 45 years ago, but hid it
(ORDO NEWS) — One of the researchers involved in the Labeled Release (LR) Life Detection Experiment during NASA‘s Viking mission to Mars in 1976 publicly stated that life on Mars was discovered 45 years ago, although the government still has not yet admitted the truth. According to Gilbert W. Levin, writing for Scientific American, on July 30, 1976, NASA received test results that showed that life did exist on Mars…
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Huge glacial tunnels discovered under the North Sea
(ORDO NEWS) — Experts used modern equipment to carefully examine the remnants of the glacial landscape that still remained under the North Sea. They managed to find huge channels that are almost 10 times wider than the Thames. It is reported by Geology. During the observations, the experts applied 3D seismic reflection analysis. This technology is often used in order to conduct research at a sufficiently large depth. Scientists said…
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Two polished balls found in a Scottish tomb
(ORDO NEWS) — Specialists from Scotland were engaged in the study of an ancient burial site, which is located in the Orkney Islands. There they managed to find strange artifacts. It was not immediately possible to establish their intended purpose. The finds were two balls of stone that were perfectly polished. Reported by the Daily Mail. The age of the investigated tomb is believed to be 5500 years. It is…
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Astronomers showed an image of a huge near-Earth asteroid
(ORDO NEWS) — Near-Earth asteroid 2016 AJ193 flew past our planet at a fairly close distance, but, according to experts, it posed absolutely no threat. The object was discovered using equipment from the Goldstone Observatory, which is located in California. The diameter of the asteroid is almost 1.4 kilometers, and its speed exceeded 94 thousand kilometers per hour. Reported by earthsky.org. This space object has already become the 1001st asteroid…
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Eternal threat of catastrophic eruptions of supervolcanoes revealed
(ORDO NEWS) — Experts say that eruptions leading to a catastrophe, in fact, can occur much more often than previously thought. Similar conclusions were made after experts studied a very old supervolcano located in Indonesia. They found that it could remain active for several millennia after the eruption occurs. New data requires that it is necessary to revise forecasts that relate to potentially dangerous events. SciTechDaily reports. Martin Danishik of…