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A Place in Kazakhstan Has Witnessed World's 'Most' Number of Nuclear Explosions, It Even Boasts an 'Atomic Lake'
A Place in Kazakhstan Has Witnessed World's 'Most' Number of Nuclear Explosions, It Even Boasts an 'Atomic Lake' Nuclear ...
A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom
It appears that the culprit at Tall el-Hammam was a small asteroid similar to the one that knocked down 80 million trees in Tunguska, Russia in 1908. It would have been a much smaller version of the ...
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A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom
The blast was around 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. The shocked city dwellers ... such as Tunguska and the Chicxulub crater, created by the asteroid that triggered ...
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Earth Is Safe From Menacing Asteroid—but Our Moon Might Take the Hit
At its current size estimate, the asteroid would likely release about 8 megatons of energy during impact—which is more than 500 times the energy released by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima ...
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Hospitals in Ruins
In the ruins of a health-care system, many medical facilities have become graveyards. Doctors continue to deliver lifesaving ...