Ultima Thule, or 2014 MU69, is a Transnetunian object (small body of the Solar system orbiting the sun at an average distance greater than that of Neptune) that will be, very soon, visited by the New Horizons probe Ultima Thule, or 2014 MU69, is a Transnetunian object (small body of the Solar system orbiting the […]
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The Chilling Story of The ‘Demon Core’ And The Scientists Who Became Its Victims
It was August 13, 1945, and the ‘demon core’ was poised, waiting to be unleashed onto a stunned Japan still reeling in fresh chaos from the deadliest attacks anyone had ever seen. A week earlier, ‘Little Boy’ had detonated over Hiroshima, followed swiftly by ‘Fat Man’ in Nagasaki. These were the first and only nuclear […]