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‘History’s most precise experiment’: How Henry Cavendish weighed the Earth with just two lead balls in a closed room9 hrs

Scientists long pondered Earth's weight, an impossible task with conventional scales. In 1798, Henry Cavendish, using a modest torsion balance with lead balls, ingeniously measured the faint gravitational pull between them. This groundbreaking experiment revealed Earth's density, finally allowing its mass to be calculated, a feat still admired for its precision and ingenuity.

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Yass Queen: How the bumble stays alive underwater11 hrs

Bumblebee queens possess a remarkable ability to survive underwater for days, a feat achieved through a combination of physiological strategies. When their burrows flood, these queens enter an ultra-low-power mode, drastically reducing their metabolic rate and relying on a physical gill and anaerobic metabolism to conserve energy and endure submersion until conditions improve.

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