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Scientists have detected many contact binary systems because the stars block each other in the sky regularly, making them appear to darken and brighten repeatedly.
CSIRO has been testing a leaf smut fungus to ensure it will only affect the target weed, and not native plants.
Bakelite was the first synthetic plastic ever made, and was patented in 1909.
True. A bluebottle is made up of lots of individual of the same species, but they take different forms and have different jobs. Some have tentacles, some can eat, some help with swimming, and so on.
The Earth’s orbit is not quite circular, and it gets closest to the Sun in early January at about 147 million kilometres away. Throughout the year it averages about 150 million kilometres from the Sun.
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