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Pygmies are said to be the most addicted to nicotine. In the Aka tribe living in central Africa, alm ...

According to the most common division, there are Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Africa, ...

It can produce static electricity when negatively charged by applying friction. Because of that, ancient Greeks named amber “elektron,” which became the basis for the word electricity.

Nitrogen makes up about 78.1 percent of the atmosphere, oxygen 20.9 percent, and Argon 0.93 percent. ...

Fungi of the genus Cordyceps are parasitic fungi, living on animals - on insect larvae or spiders - ...

Silver is the only catalyst that allows the conversion of ethylene into ethylene oxide, which then undergoes hydrolysis to produce ethylene glycol, used to produce polyester.

For its first billion years, it was a hostile, harsh, rocky place where life did not exist. According to research, the first living organisms appeared in Earth's oceans about 3.5 billion years ago.

It is used there to obtain silver halides (primarily silver bromide) used as photosensitive substances.

This region, called Sagittarius A*, is a very bright and compact radio source with a mass of 3.7 million solar masses and a diameter of approximately 44 million kilometers.

Due to the dense atmosphere and its distance from the Sun, only 1% of the amount of light that reach ...