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What is chemistry? - New Scientist
网页Chemistry is the study of matter, analysing its structure, properties and behaviour to see what happens when they change in chemical reactions. As such, it can be considered a branch of physical ...
What is fracking? - New Scientist
网页Richard Hamilton Smith / Getty Images. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a process by which liquids at high pressure are forced down boreholes into formations of shale rock to break them up ...
What is inertia? - New Scientist
网页A ball unthrown, sitting on the ground, would never move. Simply put, physical objects will resist a change in their state of motion. This is called inertia. The principle of inertia is at the ...
Six things science has revealed about the female orgasm
网页2009年5月28日 · Genes affect orgasm frequency. According to the first genetic study of the female orgasm, up to 45 per cent of the variation in women’s ability to have them could be down to genes. Many women ...
What would happen to our planet if the sun suddenly disappeared?
网页2021年7月21日 · Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. If the sun disappears suddenly, total darkness will be observed on Earth after 8 minutes – the time it take for its light to reach us. If darkness was the only ...
Alan Turing | The father of modern computer science - New Scientist
网页Full name: Alan Mathison Turing. Birth: 23 June 1912, Maida Vale, London. Death: 7 June 1954, Wilmslow, Cheshire. Often considered the father of modern computer science, Alan Turing was famous for ...
What is biochemistry? - New Scientist
网页Biochemistry. Biochemistry is the study of the chemicals that make up life and how they behave. It seeks to explain how inanimate chemicals like carbohydrates and proteins can give rise to living ...
Quantum physics - New Scientist
网页Quantum physics underlies how atoms work, and so why chemistry and biology work as they do. You, me and the gatepost – at some level at least, we’re all dancing to the quantum tune.
If energy cannot be created or destroyed, where does it come from?
网页2022年3月9日 · As Stephen Hawking explained, when you pull two objects apart, you need to expend energy to overcome the gravity that pulls them together. As it takes positive energy to separate them, gravity ...