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...same species that terrorized Florida for several years during the 1970s, they can also cause disaster on a biblical scale. Sexually mature at the age of five months, a single pregnant, hermaphroditic snail can, if it escapes to the wild, give rise to as many as 16 quadrillion descendants in five years. Armed with 80,000 rasping teeth and weighing up to a pound, each of these offspring can wade through an entire head of lettuce at one sitting. "It eats anything," says University of Michigan zoologist J.B. Burch. House paint. Dead Rats. Beer. Describing an infestation in Ceylon early...
...British journal Nature, Andrew Lyne and colleagues at the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank radio observatory report an object between 10 and 15 times the mass of the earth, orbiting a special kind of star called a pulsar that lies some 25,000 light- years (140 quadrillion miles) away...
...breaker would win a trip for two to St. Moritz or Tahiti. More than 7,000 phone calls came into LeeMah from dozens of hackers trying to beat the system, but none were able to retrieve the hidden message in the computer. The odds against them, estimated LeeMah: 720 quadrillion...
...partly slowed the quest was the fact that the protein is found in the body in only minuscule quantities. Even so, says Team Member James Riordan, angiogenin is so potent that it can induce blood vessels to form when it is present in tissue as only one part per quadrillion...
...make their measurements, the astronomers used radio telescopes, which can peer through the clouds of interstellar dust that hide the galactic center from the glassy-eyed view of optical telescopes. Still, the enigmatic source of radiation was an enormous distance away -- 30,000 light-years, or 180 quadrillion miles. The only way to discern its size and shape accurately was to employ a technique called VLBI (very long baseline interferometry). In 1983 the astronomers observed Sgr A* with six giant dish-shaped radio telescopes, one each in Massachusetts, West Virginia and Texas, and three in California. "In effect, the configuration...