Science

In some cultures, amber necklaces are gifted as good luck charms, to newborn babies to protect them from diseases, or as a marriage gift that represents eternal love.

The halo consists of old stars and globular clusters, and 90 percent of the material it contains is located within a radius of 100.000 light years from the center of the Milky Way.

This is a major obstacle to graphene finding mass application in many fields. For now, only small amounts are produced.

The farther away the celestial body is from the observer, the longer the light emitted or reflected ...

The equatorial radius of the Earth is 6.378,137 km.

It launched a total of 135 missions and was the first program to reuse a spacecraft. Its main goal w ...

These crystals are mainly shaped like six-pointed stars, combining to form snowflakes. After falling to the ground, the snowflakes form a cover-snow.

This is because the Northern Hemisphere accounts for 68 percent of all landmass. It is estimated that in the future up to 90 percent of the population may live in this part of the globe.