The Parkes Observatory radio dish, the second largest telescope in the southern hemisphere, has a ‘multibeam’ receiver which can search 13 places in the sky simultaneously for signs of intelligent life.
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The Universe is mind-bogglingly large and with the latest technology, the search is only just starting to heat up.
For many older people, today’s music goes in one ear and out the other.
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Music doesn’t get objectively worse over time. So why do older generations scoff at each new top 40 hit?
Let’s say we took a lot of water from the coast and piped it to a dry inland area. How might that affect the soil in both places?
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The Australian landscape is very old and the soils in inland areas can be very fragile.
Clifford Berry stands by the Atanasoff-Berry Computer.
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The first computer, named the ABC, was built at Iowa State University. But for a long time, few had heard of it.
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Kepler-452b is sometimes called ‘Earth 2.0’, but there’s a lot we still don’t know about it.
Phobias are an intense fear of very specific things like objects, places, situations or animals.
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There are three main scenarios that may influence whether or not you develop a phobia.
The ISS is a collaboration between the space agencies of Canada, Russia, Japan, Europe and the United States.
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The International Space Station is the biggest human made structure in space and the third brightest object in the sky. But the living conditions for the six astronauts on it are quite cramped.
Is that what I think it is?
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Those little nuggets in your nose are actually a sign your body is working to protect you.
Identical twins look the same, are the same sex, share the same birthday and shares the same genes.
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Interestingly, there are more non-identical twins in Australia now than there have been before. The number of twin pregnancies has grown over the past 30 years.
School segregation was the law of the land in the U.S. during much of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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School integration is often thought of as something that took place in the 1960s. But the first Black student to desegregate a school by court order was an Iowa girl named Susan Clark in 1868.
The view of our planet from aboard the International Space Station.
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Of all the planets in the solar system, there’s a reason we call Earth home. It’s made of just the right stuff. It’s not too small, or too big, or too hot or too cold. It’s just right.
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A battery’s power comes from a chemical reaction that happens inside the cell.
Pardon me!
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Oh! Excuse me! Please pardon my sphincter, esophagus and throat.
Galileo thought Saturn looked a bit like the head of a teddy bear with two big ears. He thought it may be made of three planets.
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Most people think that many millions of years ago, Saturn didn’t have rings at all. Instead, it had a big moon moving around it. Eventually, the moon burst and broke into pieces.
Sleep paralysis is when you wake up but feel like you can’t move.
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Sleep paralysis – when you wake up but feel like you can’t move – seems to be more common if you sleep on your back. But we don’t know why.
I’m parched as.
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Fish that live in the sea have found amazing ways to control the amount of water and salt in their bodies, and stay hydrated.
When you have a wound, your body gets to work straight away to clean it out, kill germs and repair the skin.
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The body tries to plug a wound quickly to stop germs getting in through broken skin and making you sick. But behind the scenes, your blood is working hard to repair a wound.
Have you ever wondered why U.S. money is green?
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The color of American money goes back to the British colonies.
Like magic.
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Mobile phones and tablets are basically mini computers – and to a computer, everything is a number.
The world’s smallest frog can fit on a dime.
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Scientists have identified the world’s smallest animal – for now. It could be possible smaller creatures exist that have not yet been discovered.