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With a hub height of 185 meters (606 feet) – equivalent to a 63-story skyscraper – the single 26-megawatt (MW) turbine can ...

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The quantum mechanics explanation is that the each photon has a probability of going through either slit. This is described ...

At last, the stage was set for lifesaving blood transfusions. No more lambs’ or calves’ blood; no more transfusions from ...

The mysteries of gargalesis have tickled the minds of people for centuries. Thinkers from the Greek philosophers Socrates and ...