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Oppenheimer: The ‘destroyer of worlds’ who built the atomic bomb – and how his legacy still impacts us today | Science & Tech News
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Each time Vladimir Putin raises the spectre of nuclear confrontation, the trail ultimately leads back to one man. Eighty years before the Russian president invaded Ukraine, and brought the potential of such weapons back to mainstream attention, J Robert Oppenheimer was recruited to lead a team that would construct the world’s first atomic bombs. Ukraine…
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Scientists find evidence that continents were formed by giant meteor impacts | Science & Tech News
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Scientists have discovered what they believe is the strongest evidence to date that the continents were formed by giant meteor impacts during the Earth’s early history. Meteorite impacts were “particularly prevalent during the first billion years or so of our planet’s four-and-a-half billion year history”, according to researchers from Curtin University. The theory that the…