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One of the greatest mysteries of the Universe that, for the present, puzzles the mind of most astronomers, cosmologists and physicists is the question ‘What makes up our Universe?’ This is due to how, in 1998, a certain substance under the name of Dark Matter came under speculation. It is believed this enigmatic substance, of type unknown, accounts for almost three-quarters of the cosmos within the Universe, could be the answer to several questions raised by the models of the expanding Universe astronomers have created, and even decide the fate of the expansion of the Universe.

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The Moon has had an enormous effect on the development of our planet and human life. The effects can be divided into two areas: our physical evolution and intellectual evolution with the development of mathematics and science. The Moon was formed some 4.5 billion years ago, 5 million years after the Earth was formed. The most accepted theory of the creation of the Moon is that at this time large amounts of debris rotated in the same orbit as the Earth. The Earth collided with a piece of this debris about the size of Mars.

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The British Physics Olympiad has announced the title of its school physics practical competition:

The Motion of a 300g can of Heinz Cream of Tomato Soup down an inclined slope at one degree to the horizontal.

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 Scientists in America studying the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation have suggested that there is evidence of the universe before the Big Bang. The therory stems from an attempt to explain why time seems to travel in only one direction. Read more here.

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