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varies with the strain of flu. In some cases, this is fairly standard. Animals are the perview of vets. Often their main concern is the...

Would a protein, along with the necessary cell machinery, be needed to deposit the iron compound?

Magnetite (Fe3O4) is found in the radula (a scrapping tongue-like mouth part) of at least one mollusc (chiton). I think due to its...

Bird flu always brings me to the same questions. How lethal is bird flu in humans compared to other flu's? Does the annihilation of a...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/patient-hospitalized-first-human-case-034330047.html Well, the article is confusing with declaring...

Some poking around brought up this site. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11298677/ which as usual ends with more questions. I...

I was thinking of using sand. Might add to the suspense for the audience.

No, but it helps with the transfer of heat from the interior. And it does show that convection is occurring beneath out feet.

It is assumed that Venus does not have core / mantle convection which is attributed for the earth to have suitable enough heat loss from...

Is there a app that lets one calculate immediately? You might have to write one. I would think with the laser scan thing, the antler...

The rocky planets are composed mainly of iron-nickel interiors surrounded by silicon based compounds. In other words a high density...

The arxiv paper https://arxiv.org/html/2508.16781v1

First time I am hearing of Soot, so I don;t know. But the article states, if it is truthful, as sometimes they explain it incorrectly...

I read the phys.org article - https://phys.org/news/2025-09-soot-planets-common-worlds.html and wondered if Venus could be a soot world...

That may sound plausible but is it true? These factors dont scale linearly. Only doing the math will tell you. And you cant do the math...