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When you heat things, you can expect familiar effects. Heat ice and it melts. Heat water and it turns to steam. These processes occur at different temperatures for different materials, but the pattern repeats itself: solid becomes liquid and then gas. At high enough temperatures, however, the familiar pattern breaks. At super-high temperatures, a different type of liquid is formed. This surprising result is because solid, liquid, and gas are not the only states of…
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Venetian merchant Marco Polo is considered one of the first known medieval Europeans to travel to Asia. Among other things, he visited China twice and claimed to have seen…dragons there. The records of Marco Polo are often subject to legitimate criticism, and some experts believe that he either was not in the countries he indicated at all, or that he did exist but mixed real facts with fictional ones. The first time Marco Polo came…
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Subscribe to get Spooky Isles’ free newsletter in your inbox every Friday! Reading Time: 4 minutes Spirits from throughout history continue to roam Hermeston Hall, one of Nottinghamshire’s most enigmatic manors, writes RICK HALE Hermeston Hall If you’ve ever seen the American sports coming of age film, The Sandlot, you may remember hearing Have Ruth’s quote to Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez, “Remember kid, there’s heroes and there’s legends. Heroes get remembered, legends never die.” I’ve…
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Cattle Mutilations Come to Australia as Rancher Mysteriously Loses 20 Cows Source link
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Researchers at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland announced that they have observed and generated in the laboratory a highly energetic form of radiation called high-energy neutrino radiation. Their accomplishment is without precedent, and it will significantly improve the scientific community’s understanding of some of the most energetic and destructive environments in the cosmos. The rarest particles In nature, high-energy neutrinos are created only in exceptional circumstances. These include colliding neutron stars, gamma ray bursts, and…