All night, every time you breathe out, carbon atoms take off into the night air. Each carbon atom weighs a tiny fraction of a gram. But every breath expels roughly ten billion trillion atoms, so you wake up a pound lighter.
All night, every time you breathe out, carbon atoms take off into the night air. Each carbon atom weighs a tiny fraction of a gram. But every breath expels roughly ten billion trillion atoms, so you wake up a pound lighter.
Even at 10%, the high possibility of life is overwhelming. There are at least a few hundred billion stars in our galaxy, which means that around 20 to 40 billion planets have the potential for the development of organisms.
Scientists are now satisfied they know about the universe's birth, and about its childhood. But they still need to learn about its early infancy thirteen billion years ago.
But why bother? Given that the night sky is full of bright galaxies, why do astronomers build telescopes manufactured to a billionth of a metre accuracy, just to see faint ones? The answer is about looking back in time.
Field continues, "In other words, telescopes are time machines. They have shown us what the universe was like ten billion years ago, how it evolved during its childhood."
'Silicon Valley Turns Its Eye to Education'Venture and equity financing for ed tech companies soared to nearly $1.87 billion last year, up 55 percent from the year before in the US.
Buster Keaton’s most famous stunt was in ‘Steamboat Bill Jr’ (1928). The wall of a house falls on Keaton, but he isn't hurt because he is standing exactly where an open window lands.
Our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are destined to collide! This illustration shows what the night sky might look like in 3.75 billion years.
British Petroleum faces huge penalties that may reach $18 billion for violations of the Clean Water Act. BP has already written off the cost of its cleanup effort after the spill, but penalties aren't tax deductible.
British Petroleum faces huge penalties that may reach $18 billion for violations of the Clean Water Act. BP has already written off the cost of its cleanup effort after the spill, but penalties aren't tax deductible.
British Petroleum faces huge penalties that may reach $18 billion for violations of the Clean Water Act. BP has already written off the cost of its cleanup effort after the spill, but penalties aren't tax deductible.
The Don Bugito food truck, billed as a "pre-hispanic snackeria," embraces the entomophagy movement and challenges the Western aversion to creepy-crawlies.
The Don Bugito food truck, billed as a "pre-hispanic snackeria," embraces the entomophagy movement and challenges the Western aversion to creepy-crawlies.
The Don Bugito food truck, billed as a "pre-hispanic snackeria," embraces the entomophagy movement and challenges the Western aversion to creepy-crawlies.
The Don Bugito food truck, billed as a "pre-hispanic snackeria," embraces the entomophagy movement and challenges the Western aversion to creepy-crawlies.
Build-it-yourself computer kits spawned PCs and Bill Gates. What will the next big DIY kit trend be? What cutting-edge technology today will hobbyists soon want to pull apart and build themselves?
Most 'successful' travel bloggers don't make money hand over fist. Budgets are tight, but because tourism agencies and other sponsors foot the bill, thousands of writers and photographers are free to travel the world.