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Hubble shows a ‘farting’ comet turning its back for the first time – and it could soon ‘kill itself’.

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A diagram showing the orbit of comet 41P around the sun

For the first time, an astronomer has seen a comet change its speed and direction of rotation, thanks to a new analysis. The Hubble Telescope photos. The unexpected change is caused by “outgassing” jets that shoot an icy mixture of gas and dust into the solar system, according to a new study. Well, named 41P … Read more

Scientists at the world’s largest particle accelerator have succeeded in turning lead into gold during the simulation of the Big Bang, but the amount produced is small, on the order of trillionths of a gram.

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Scientists at the world's largest particle accelerator have succeeded in turning lead into gold during the simulation of the Big Bang, but the amount produced is small, on the order of trillionths of a gram.

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest, have been able to turn lead into gold. According to Revista Oeste, that was not the purpose of the experiment. The LHC was designed to simulate conditions close to the Big Bang, the collision of beams of lead nuclei at close to the speed of … Read more