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100

The curiosity rover just transmitted a color image of a sunrise on this plant

What is Mars?

100

What is the process that turns sunlight and Carbon Dioxide into sugars?

What is Photosynthesis?

100

NASA Engineers Successfully Switch to Backup Thrusters on _____ to Keep the Interstellar Spacecraft Communicating 15 Billion Miles From Earth

Voyager 1

100

The Binary counting system consists of these two numbers?

What are Ones and Zeros?

200

China’s Chang'e-6 lunar mission made history by collecting and returning the world's first-ever soil samples from this specific part of the moon

What is the dark/backside?

200

Represented by the letter c, is equal to about 300,000 km/s

What is the speed of light?

200

"Google’s AI Breakthrough 'AlphaFold' Predicts How 200 Million Complex _____ Fold

Proteins

200

This scale is used by geologists to rank material hardness from a range of one to ten

What is the Mohs Hardness Scale?

300

A LLM AI program recently solved this equation after over 20 years of human attempts

What is the Navier-Stokes existence problem?

300

In a computer, this component handles graphical calculations

What is the GPU?

300

Physicists Use X-Rays and AI to Read 2,000-Year-Old Carbonized Papyrus Scrolls Buried by Mt. Vesuvius in Ancient _________

Pompeii

300

This is the longest type of electromagnetic energy wave

What are Radio Waves?

400

Scientists are studying deep-sea hydrothermal vents and have found large amounts of these

What are rare earth metals?

400

A solution with a Ph value lower than 7 is classified as this

What is an acid?

400

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Achieve 'Net Energy Gain' in a Controlled ________ Reaction

Nuclear Fusion

400
This element present in Bananas causes them to be slightly radioactive

What is Potassium? (K)

500

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Francis Halzen for doing this in Antarctica

What is tracking or detecting neutrinos?

500

This part of Earth's Core is responsible for generating its magnetic field and lies below the mantle

What is the Outer Core?

500

NASA's ___ telescope just took a big step toward seeing alien worlds

Roman

500

This is the hardest material in the human body, formed with densely-packed mineral crystals

What is enamel?