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1,184,621 | For both Russian and foreign scientists, one of the most challenging terms for interpretation is the phrase "materyi led" or "hard ice" () that was used by Lazarev and Bellingshausen in their descriptions. In the post-1949 Soviet literature, the term was interpreted as "ice continent". Moreover, in his report to Traver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40880361 | 1,183,993 |
564,530 | He began his career as a painter in the 1950s, but in the 1960s shifted to installation work, becoming a pioneer whose work helped to define the aesthetics and conceptual issues of the West Coast Light and Space movement. His early works often employed light and veils of scrim to transform gallery and museum spaces, bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=645174 | 564,240 |
1,076,091 | In 2018, the holotype braincase of "Nothronychus mckinleyi" was re-examined by Smith and colleagues updating numerous basicranial and soft-tissues aspects. They noted that the braincase has particularly large pneumatic chambers on the sensorial areas, suggesting that the increased tympanic systems would result in optim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1861279 | 1,075,536 |
848,783 | The DLIFLC won academic accreditation in 1979 from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, and in 1981 the position of academic dean (later called provost) was reestablished. In the early 1980s, crowding and living conditions at the Monterey location forced the institute to open two temporary branches: a branc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=936948 | 848,333 |
341,395 | Conceived nearly two decades earlier, and developed in Wichita, Kansas, the house was designed to be lightweight, adapted to windy climates, cheap to produce and easy to assemble. Because of its light weight and portability, the Dymaxion House was intended to be the ideal housing for individuals and families who wanted... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4031 | 341,214 |
800,772 | Surveillance camera software may be considered inherently political because it requires algorithms to distinguish normal from abnormal behaviors, and to determine who belongs in certain locations at certain times. The ability of such algorithms to recognize faces across a racial spectrum has been shown to be limited by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55817338 | 800,345 |
1,592,099 | On 2 September, another shore bombardment of the Montenegrin coast was conducted by the "Huszár"-class destroyers and , assisted by "64 F" and "66 F". On 16 September, "68 F" and "72 F" were involved in a raid and landing at San Giovanni di Medua on the Albanian coast. The French submarine slipped between the protectiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51038733 | 1,591,203 |
143,739 | In 1967, graduate students under Professor Paul Sandorff at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were tasked with designing a method to prevent a hypothetical 18-month distant impact on Earth by the asteroid 1566 Icarus, an object that makes regular close approaches to Earth, sometimes as close as 16 lunar distanc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174069 | 143,681 |
1,503,869 | Because of the rarity of linear features found in nature, technologies which allow for large scale map view analysis of the earth's surface have been increasingly helpful in revealing fault traces that have otherwise remained unrecognized. Remote Sensing techniques use imagery acquired by sensors mounted on satellites,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8728255 | 1,503,023 |
343,570 | Until the pioneering work of British surgeon Joseph Lister in the 1860s, most medical men believed that chemical damage from exposures to bad air (see "miasma") was responsible for infections in wounds, and facilities for washing hands or a patient's wounds were not available. Lister became aware of the work of French ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45599 | 343,389 |
1,572,280 | As a protein-coding gene, TBX5 encodes for the protein T-box Transcription Factor 5, which is a part of the T-box family of transcription factors. It also interacts with other genes, such as GATA4 and NKX2-5, and the BAF chromatin-remodeling complex to drive and repress gene expression during development. The transcrip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14762406 | 1,571,392 |
1,069,786 | From the 1950s, Gold served as a consultant to NASA and held positions on several national space committees, including the President's Science Advisory Committee, as the United States tried to develop its space program. At the time, scientists were engaged in a heated debate over the physical properties of the moon's s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=156331 | 1,069,232 |
1,175,735 | The passive margin switched to active margin in the early-to-mid Mesozoic when the Farallon Plate under the Pacific Ocean started to dive below the North American Plate, creating a subduction zone; volcanoes and uplifting mountains were created as a result. Erosion over many millions of years created a relatively featu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1134149 | 1,175,113 |
1,739,288 | Fenn was born in New York City, and grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey. In the years preceding the Great Depression, Fenn's father worked several different jobs, including briefly working as a draftsman at the Fokker Aircraft Company. During this time, Charles Lindbergh's plane "The Spirit of St. Louis" was briefly stor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=427622 | 1,738,311 |
1,651,125 | Regardless of one's overall perspective on the costs and benefits of economic globalization, there are several examples in social scholarship of groups of people suffering a decline in nutritional statues subsequent to the introduction of a capitalist market-based economy into an area that has previously practiced an e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17200325 | 1,650,193 |
547,141 | In the summer 1942, the Askania company began work on the EZ 42, a gunsight which could be adjusted for the target's wingspan (in order to estimate distance to the target). Three examples of the first series of 33 pieces were delivered in July 1944. These were followed by further 770 units, the last being delivered by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3452458 | 546,855 |
88,537 | In the same year Alexander Ginzburg, an employee in Golitsyn's institute, developed a model of dust storms to describe the cooling phenomenon on Mars. Golitsyn felt that his model would be applicable to soot after he read a 1982 Swedish magazine dedicated to the effects of a hypothetical nuclear war between the USSR an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22171 | 88,502 |
103,231 | The impetus for development of the P-80 was the discovery by Allied intelligence of the Me 262 in spring 1943, which had made only test flights of its own first quartet (the V1 through V4 airframes) of design prototypes at that time, all fitted with retracting tailwheel landing gear. After receiving documents and bluep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=78035 | 103,186 |
60,630 | The chemistry of plutonium was found to resemble uranium after a few months of initial study. Early research was continued at the secret Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago. On August 20, 1942, a trace quantity of this element was isolated and measured for the first time. About 50 micrograms of pluton... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7987684 | 60,605 |
54,434 | The aircraft was still experiencing extensive teething troubles, as well as being victimized by "urban legends", mostly involving inapplicable twin-engined factors which had been designed out of the aircraft by Lockheed. In addition to these, the early versions had a reputation as a "widow maker" as it could enter an u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25041 | 54,411 |
2,118,549 | EAEPE was established in London, on 29 June 1988. However, the formal founding meeting was only held in September 1989 at the association's first annual conference in Keswick, Cumbria, UK. At this occasion, the EAEPE Constitution was adopted and a steering committee was elected, changed later into the EAEPE Council. In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8283649 | 2,117,331 |
1,031,366 | On the final day of bidding, the F-15SE and Eurofighter Typhoon came within the given budget. DAPA admitted at least one fighter satisfied the procurement price, but declined to announce how many aircraft closed the price gap citing the ongoing procedure. As there were companies that offered price within budget, they p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40890966 | 1,030,830 |
1,661,042 | The next batch of seven vehicles were manufactured by R. Y. Pickering and Co Ltd, who were based in Wishaw, Scotland. The traction control equipment was by GEC, although the batteries had a larger capacity than the previous batch. The motors were reused from passenger stock which was being withdrawn at the time. One im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3170540 | 1,660,108 |
164,604 | In Europe, the induction of active immunity emerged in an attempt to contain smallpox. Immunization has existed in various forms for at least a thousand years, without the terminology. The earliest use of immunization is unknown, but, about 1000 AD, the Chinese began practicing a form of immunization by drying and inha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=298547 | 164,519 |
1,670,597 | Devoting himself next to optics, he produced memoirs which earned him a high place among early searchers of a true dynamical theory of light. In 1832, by the aid of a particular hypothesis as to the constitution of the ether, he reached by a rigorous dynamical calculation results agreeing with those obtained by Augusti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=940553 | 1,669,657 |
1,021,749 | Dynamic and regenerative braking, when used on electric or diesel-electric railroad locomotives, means that the electric motors which usually are used to drive the road wheels are instead used as generators being driven by the wheels on a downslope. In regenerative braking, the electric current created is typically fed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3677408 | 1,021,220 |
1,941,730 | The Ocean Applications Branch plays an important role in enhancing OPC operations and services. One example is the adaptation of ocean surface winds observed from the QuikSCAT satellite in early 2000. Prior to the QuikSCAT launch, there was no ability to observe, verify, and warn of hurricane-force wind conditions, are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19163391 | 1,940,619 |
856,506 | In bird and mammal biology, altricial species are those species whose newly hatched or born young are relatively immobile, lack hair or down, are not able to obtain food on their own, and must be cared for by adults; closed eyes are common, though not ubiquitous. Altricial young are born helpless and require care for a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69746055 | 856,051 |
1,413,138 | Devised to be used in conjunction with the Type 984 radar, the first such system was developed by the Royal Navy in the immediate post-war era using analog systems that tracked the rate of motion of "blips" on radar screens. The operators used a joystick to align a pointer with the target and then pushed a button to up... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2026808 | 1,412,342 |
213,715 | The early Devonian landscape was devoid of vegetation taller than waist height. Greater height provided a competitive advantage in the harvesting of sunlight for photosynthesis, overshadowing of competitors and in spore distribution, as spores (and later, seeds) could be blown for greater distances if they started high... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11008314 | 213,607 |
1,604,214 | The tiebreak procedure was used due to final scores tying at third and fourth highest. Kenzō Shirai of Japan won the bronze medal with Marian Drăgulescu of Romania placing fourth due to Shirai's top E-score being higher than Drăgulescu's (15.833 versus 15.633), and with identical scores in total, and separate vaults as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47285538 | 1,603,313 |
249,612 | In 2011, Stiglitz was named by "Time" magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Stiglitz's work focuses on income distribution from a Georgist perspective, asset risk management, corporate governance, and international trade. He is the author of several books, the latest being "People, Power, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63092 | 249,480 |
1,201,232 | Native to southeast Asia, "D. suzukii" was first described in 1931 by Matsumura. Observed in Japan as early as 1916 by T. Kanzawa, it was widely observed throughout parts of Japan, Korea, and China by the early 1930s. By the 1980s, the "fruit fly" with the spotted wings was seen in Hawaii. It first appeared in North Am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25190191 | 1,200,591 |
652,258 | In the beginning of 1940 the design office of V. G. Grabin received a task from the artillery department to develop a powerful anti-tank gun. The head of this department, Marshal Kulik, and his subordinates estimated that the use of heavily armoured tanks by the USSR in the Winter War would not have gone unnoticed in N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3742735 | 651,916 |
920,297 | A large model, weighing approximately 500 kg and 23 m long, was built in September 2009 by TV presenter James May and a team of volunteers from the engineering department of the University of Liverpool, who created a Meccano bridge spanning the Leeds & Liverpool Canal in Liverpool. As with other models of this size and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=147874 | 919,811 |
4,989 | Barlog explained that Kratos had to change his cycle of violence and learn to control his rage. He said Kratos had made many bad decisions, which led to the destruction of Olympus. He wanted to know what would happen if Kratos made a good decision. The birth of Barlog's own son influenced the idea of Kratos's character... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50810460 | 4,986 |
834,989 | Dr. Joseph J. McGowan, became Bellarmine's third president in 1990. McGowan named buildings on campus for his predecessors, Horrigan and Petrik, and oversaw the addition of Miles Hall and the W.L. Lyons Brown Library. The Annsley Frazier Thornton School of Education was added in 1998, study abroad jumped from seven stu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=394938 | 834,540 |
378,566 | This strategy is effective against a number of retinal diseases that have been studied, including neovascular diseases that are features of age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and retinopathy of prematurity. Since the regulation of vascularization in the mature retina involves a balance between endog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48334 | 378,371 |
272,838 | An improved version of 'Fat Man' was developed, and on 26 February 1952, Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that the United Kingdom also had an atomic bomb and a successful test took place on 3 October 1952. At first these were free-fall bombs, intended for use by the V Force of jet bombers. A Vickers Valiant d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242883 | 272,690 |
1,024,886 | Liston in his studies concluded to much lower estimates. Documentation of historical finds and the excavation of "Ariston", the most complete specimen ever from the Star Pit near Whittlesey, Peterborough, support Woodward's figures of between . With "Ariston" the pectoral fins are apart, indicating a narrow body of no ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1987761 | 1,024,353 |
1,622,516 | Bruce William Stillman, AO, FAA, FRS (born 16 October 1953, in Melbourne, Australia) is a biochemist and cancer researcher who has served as the Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) since 1994 and President since 2003. He also served as the Director of its NCI-designated Cancer Center for 25 years from 1992... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33560980 | 1,621,600 |
290,110 | Some of the ideas and issues pertaining to educational psychology date back to the time of Plato and Aristotle. Philosophers as well as sophists discussed the purpose of education, training of the body and the cultivation of psycho-motor skills, the formation of good character, the possibilities and limits of moral edu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10332 | 289,953 |
591,444 | Histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDIs) have a long history of use in psychiatry and neurology as mood stabilizers and anti-epileptics, for example, valproic acid. In more recent times, HDIs are being studied as a mitigator or treatment for neurodegenerative diseases. Also in recent years, there has been an effort to dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1300938 | 591,142 |
985,485 | Bivalves are aquatic molluscs which have two-part shells. Typically both shells (or valves) are symmetrical along the hinge line. The class has 30,000 species, including scallops, clams, oysters and mussels. Most bivalves are filter feeders (although some have taken up scavenging and predation), extracting organic matt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=377720 | 984,971 |
1,711,842 | Recently, scientists have characterized many of the cellular mechanisms by which netrin-1 binding to DCC motivates axonal attraction through at least three independent signaling pathways. In all three pathways netrin-1 is observed to cause the homodimerization of DCC that begins the chemoattraction cascade. In the firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2139633 | 1,710,877 |
1,716,350 | In 2007 a review of healthcare in London led by Professor Lord Darzi, "A Framework for Action", recommended the creation of a number of AHSCs in England. In October 2007 Imperial College Healthcare became the first AHSC to be established in the UK when the Imperial College London Faculty of Medicine merged with the Ham... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18769343 | 1,715,381 |
1,188,291 | In 1856, Hofmann's student William Henry Perkin was attempting to synthesize quinine at the Royal College of Chemistry in London, when he discovered the first aniline dye, mauveine. The discovery led to the creation of a wide range of artificially created colourful textile dyes, revolutionising the fashion world. Hofma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=940627 | 1,187,659 |
264,141 | AIIMS-II was thought to be developed as the largest medical Education centre for super-specialities in the world to meet the enormous need of super-specialists in various field in India. The 330 acres of land was donated by the then Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, of Haryana to Anbumani Ramadoss, in presence of D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2241426 | 263,998 |
738,878 | Besides his empirical research, Angrist has also made major contributions to econometrics, especially concerning the use of instrumental variables estimations. For instance, Angrist developed a two-stage least squares (2SLS) equivalent of the efficient Wald estimator. Together with Guido Imbens, he developed the concep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14441269 | 738,486 |
1,353,411 | Thalamocortical radiations have been researched extensively in the past due to their relationship with attention, wakefulness, and arousal. Past research has shown how an increase in spike-and-wave activity within the TC network can disrupt normal rhythms involved with the sleep-wakefulness cycle, ultimately causing ab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2483527 | 1,352,664 |
1,218,094 | As of 1999, Voest-Alpine Industries owned 49 percent of Fuchs. Although the company laid off 59 employees in Salisbury, Fuchs was "the market leader", and the parent companies intended to keep Fuchs in business. The layoffs resulted from an economic crisis in Asia, as well as lower demand for American steel resulting f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45642500 | 1,217,440 |
1,991,036 | Tutankhamun was born during the Amarna period. The identity of his parents is doubtful but they were perhaps Akhenaten and his wife Kiya; he was a royal prince and began his reign at the age of about eight years. Tutankhamun married Ankhesenpaaten, daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. Tutankhamun, the 11th king of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44625317 | 1,989,893 |
2,175,145 | As the genome evolves and alters over time by mutation, the number of NUMT in the genome differs over the course of evolution. NUMT enters the nucleus and inserts in the nDNA at different stages of the time. Due to constant mutation and instability of NUMT, the resemblance of this genome stretch to the mtDNA varies wid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8564084 | 2,173,901 |
478,561 | It was in this period that he acquired his lifelong nickname, “Ma,” short for mathematics, which he came to prefer to his given name, and which virtually everyone who knew him well used. Although the nickname might seem to imply a narrow intellectual focus, quite the reverse was true of Artin. Even his teaching at the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=245351 | 478,321 |
705,376 | The early 20th century was marked by the exploration of different techniques and ways of artistic expressiveness. Many American artists like Wilhelmina Weber, Man Ray, Patrick Henry Bruce, Gerald Murphy and others went to Europe, notably Paris, to make art. The formation of various artistic assemblies led to the multip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3662104 | 705,007 |
778,460 | The Ultimate version of William Stryker Jr. was a reverend. Living in Manhattan with his wife Kate Stryker and son John Stryker, he suffered a great tragedy when his family was killed when the "Ultimatum Wave" struck New York. William miraculously survived, but could not come to grips with his grief. He attempted to le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4800502 | 778,043 |
769,592 | Renal tubular acidosis (RTA) is a medical condition that involves an accumulation of acid in the body due to a failure of the kidneys to appropriately acidify the urine. In renal physiology, when blood is filtered by the kidney, the filtrate passes through the tubules of the nephron, allowing for exchange of salts, aci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3233800 | 769,180 |
153,622 | Emergence is the return to baseline physiologic function of all organ systems after the cessation of general anaesthetics. This stage may be accompanied by temporary neurologic phenomena, such as agitated emergence (acute mental confusion), aphasia (impaired production or comprehension of speech), or focal impairment i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=398561 | 153,552 |
42,948 | From 1990 to 2002, Northrop Grumman contributed $8.5 million to federal campaigns. According to PAC summary data compiled by Source Watch, the company gave US$1,011,260 to federal candidates in the 2005–2006 election cycle, compared to $10,612,837 given by all defense contractors in the same cycle. This donation amount... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216886 | 42,932 |
1,825,293 | Heywood's early work at MIT focused on chemical processes in car engines of molecules like oxides of nitrogen that lead to hydrocarbon emissions, at a time when it was unclear how and to what extent these contributed to atmospheric pollution. In 1972, he became director of the MIT Sloan Automotive Lab, where he worked ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59627929 | 1,824,255 |
651,416 | Currently, most cataloging codes are similar to, or even based on, the International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD), a set of rules produced by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) to describe a wide range of library materials. These rules organize the bibliographic de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3185540 | 651,074 |
2,141,520 | Zahra Afshara and a team of scientists from Durham University analyzed δC and δN in human bone collagen from 69 male and female adult skeletons from the site of Tepe Hissar. The study aimed to investigate the subsistence economy and dietary changes in a Chalcolithic and Bronze Age (5th – 2nd millennium BCE) skeletal as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66680118 | 2,140,290 |
1,282,105 | The sustained growth of Soviet power after the Cuban Missile Crisis challenged the entire spectrum of U.S. military capabilities. These factors led to a new wave of Air Force weapons development beginning in the late 1960s. Systems Command found itself managing a broad array of new tactical and strategic programs inclu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1827412 | 1,281,409 |
983,202 | Adolf Miethe designed a high-quality, sequential-exposure color camera, which was manufactured by Bermpohl and became available commercially in 1903. Prokudin-Gorsky published an illustration of it in "Fotograf-Liubitel" in 1906. The most common model used a single oblong plate 9 cm wide by 24 cm high, the same format ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=444712 | 982,688 |
367,347 | After completing his PhD in 1990, Perelman began work at the Leningrad Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where his advisors were Aleksandr Aleksandrov and Yuri Burago. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, with a strong recommendation from the geometer Mikhail Gromov, Perelman... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=225266 | 367,154 |
1,169,801 | The Scottish education system underwent radical change and expansion in the 20th century. In 1918 Roman Catholic schools were brought into the system, but retained their distinct religious character, access to schools by priests and the requirement that school staff be acceptable to the Church. The school leaving age w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18943753 | 1,169,182 |
531,749 | On May 21, 1939, during a nighttime fog that engulfed the summit, a U.S. Army Air Force Northrop A-17 two-seater attack plane crashed into the main building. Because a scientific meeting was being held elsewhere, the only staff member present was Nicholas Mayall. Nothing caught fire and the two individuals in the build... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213521 | 531,475 |
450,125 | During his years in Birmingham and Edinburgh, John Berry Haycraft had been actively engaged in research and published papers on the coagulation of blood, and in 1884, he discovered that the leech secreted a powerful anticoagulant, which he named hirudin, although it was not isolated until the 1950s, nor its structure f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2214122 | 449,906 |
196,212 | With the help of a friend, Ray creates a new costume from the material of the white dwarf star. This time, instead of a belt, Palmer uses an encephalotronic grid in the costume's headpiece to control the costume. The grid is keyed to his unique brainwaves. This enables him to transfer his mass into an unknown dimension... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4971776 | 196,112 |
42,529 | The Thompson was used in World War II in the hands of Allied troops as a weapon for scouts, non-commissioned officers (corporal, sergeant, and higher), and patrol leaders, as well as commissioned officers, tank crewmen, and soldiers performing raids on German positions. In the European theater, the gun was widely utili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=95006 | 42,514 |
1,129,609 | Another major challenge for weak lensing is correction for the point spread function (PSF) due to instrumental and atmospheric effects, which causes the observed images to be smeared relative to the "true sky". This smearing tends to make small objects more round, destroying some of the information about their true ell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17833105 | 1,129,031 |
182,382 | According to astrophysicist Steinn Sigurdsson, "There are viable bacterial spores that have been found that are 40 million years old on Earth—and we know they're very hardened to radiation." Some bacteria were found living in the cold and dark in a lake buried a half-mile deep under the ice in Antarctica, and in the Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9619 | 182,286 |
1,414,652 | During the early years of the program, SpaceX attempted to catch the descending payload fairings, under parachute, in a very large net on a moving ship in the Atlantic ocean east of the Space Coast of Florida. Two former platform supply vessels—"Ms.Tree", formerly known as "Mr.Steven", and its sister ship, "Ms.Chief"—w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56984039 | 1,413,855 |
511,947 | The EML4-ALK fusion gene is responsible for approximately 3-5% of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The vast majority of cases are adenocarcinomas. Patients with this ALK rearrangement have the following clinicopathologic characteristics: Young age at diagnosis (median 50 years), female gender, nonsmoker/light smoker... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14725514 | 511,681 |
1,491,812 | It has been known since the early 1930s that the salts of certain lanthanides are fluorescent. The reaction of lanthanide salts with nucleic acids was discussed in a number of publications during the 1930s and the 1940s where lanthanum-containing reagents were employed for the fixation of nucleic acid structures. In 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44991261 | 1,490,973 |
379,413 | With the IBM PC/AT, the enhanced AT Bus (more familiarly retronymed as the ISA, or "Industry Standard Architecture") added a second 8237 DMA controller to provide three additional, and as highlighted by resource clashes with the XT's additional expandability over the original PC, much-needed channels (5–7; channel 4 is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57717 | 379,218 |
693,731 | Macroinvertebrates are useful and convenient indicators of the ecological health of water bodies and terrestrial ecosystems. They are almost always present, and are easy to sample and identify. This is largely due to the fact that most macro-invertebrates are visible to the naked eye, they typically have a short life-c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1859694 | 693,368 |
1,908,303 | In 2007, Schaefer published a first author paper discussing the importance of microRNAs (miRNAs) in the regulation of neuronal gene expression. She showed that a conditional knockout of the miRNA generating enzyme, Dicer, lead to death of neurons in the cerebellum. Since loss of miRNA led to cerebellar degeneration, he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63642133 | 1,907,206 |
1,412,580 | A 2008 study titled Heavy Metals Concentrations of Surface Dust from E-Waste Recycling and Its Human Health Implications in Southeast China examined environmental and human health risks in Guiyu by collecting dust samples from workshops, roads, a schoolyard and an outdoor food market that sells fish, vegetables and mea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22995310 | 1,411,785 |
117,794 | Galápagos tortoises possess two main shell forms that correlate with the biogeographic history of the subspecies group. They exhibit a spectrum of carapace morphology ranging from "saddleback" (denoting upward arching of the front edge of the shell resembling a saddle) to "domed" (denoting a rounded convex surface rese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7934681 | 117,749 |
1,646,868 | In the transition from metaphase to anaphase, it is crucial that sister chromatids are properly and simultaneously separated to opposite ends of the cell. Separation of sister-chromatids is initially strongly inhibited to prevent premature separation in late mitosis, but this inhibition is relieved through destruction ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25368725 | 1,645,937 |
1,998,553 | McFall-Ngai spent her childhood in Southern California and attended Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles. She attended college at the University of San Francisco, graduating in 1973 with a Bachelors of Science in biology. She chose to further her education at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58784314 | 1,997,410 |
377,203 | On 30 October 2008, "Nature" endorsed an American presidential candidate for the first time when it supported Barack Obama during his campaign in America's 2008 presidential election. In October 2012, an Arabic edition of the magazine was launched in partnership with King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology. As o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43427 | 377,008 |
551,394 | There has been considerable discussion as to how mariculture of seaweeds can be conducted in the open ocean as a means to regenerate decimated fish populations by providing both habitat and the basis of a trophic pyramid for marine life. It has been proposed that natural seaweed ecosystems can be replicated in the open... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19769 | 551,106 |
1,346,240 | The physicists at Aldermaston had plenty of ideas about how to follow up Grapple X. Possibilities were discussed in September 1957. One was to tinker with the width of the shells in the Dick to find an optimal configuration. If they were too thick, they would slow the neutrons generated by the fusion reaction; if they ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52018264 | 1,345,499 |
1,154,146 | Talbot suggested that the short, slender humerus, long, straight hindlimb bones, and the well-developed fourth trochanter of the femur indicated that "Podokesaurus" was bipedal. She found the fact that the tibia was much longer than the femur, that the metatarsals were very long, over half the length of the tibia, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3610052 | 1,153,536 |
1,564,933 | On April 15, 1950, the Army consolidated their far-flung guided missile and rocket research and development efforts into the Ordnance Guided Missile Center (OGMC) at Redstone Arsenal. The Army bought the former WWII munitions facility from the Army Chemical Corps. That summer and fall, members of the German rocket team... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13921852 | 1,564,046 |
2,164 | From this work, he concluded that the lens of any refracting telescope would suffer from the dispersion of light into colours (chromatic aberration). As a proof of the concept, he constructed a telescope using reflective mirrors instead of lenses as the objective to bypass that problem. Building the design, the first k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14627 | 2,164 |
2,109,787 | Percy was appointed lecturer on metallurgy to the artillery officers at Woolwich, around 1864, and retained this post till his death. He was appointed superintendent of ventilation, etc., of the Houses of Parliament on 6 February 1865. He was also a member of the Secretary for War's commissions on the application of ir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35284463 | 2,108,573 |
1,195,654 | He returned to Lewes, and immediately formed a partnership with his former master, James Moore. In the wake of the cholera, typhoid and smallpox epidemics, Mantell found himself quite busy attending to more than 50 patients a day and delivering between 200 and 300 babies a year. As he later recalled, he would have to s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=327498 | 1,195,014 |
555,573 | Weather measurements and predictions are critical to all Research Airport operations, rocket and balloon launches, and in safely conducting hazardous operations on the ground. Wallops meteorological services provide measurements of upper atmospheric and magnetic phenomena to augment and enable the collection of scienti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=845673 | 555,284 |
992,023 | Dani points out that the contents of the book have "practically nothing in common" with the mathematics of the Vedic period or even with subsequent developments in Indian mathematics. Shukla reiterates the observations, on a per-chapter basis. For example, multiple techniques in the book involve the use of high-precisi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=567826 | 991,506 |
1,759,885 | About 250 million years ago during the early Triassic period, Atlantic Canada lay roughly in the middle of a giant continent called Pangaea. This supercontinent began to fracture 220 million years ago when the Earth's lithosphere was being pulled apart from extensional stress, creating a divergent plate boundary known ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22444008 | 1,758,892 |
254,909 | First proposed in 1914, the grid controlled mercury-arc valve became available for power transmission during the period 1920 to 1940. Starting in 1932, General Electric tested mercury-vapor valves and a 12 kV DC transmission line, which also served to convert 40 Hz generation to serve 60 Hz loads, at Mechanicville, New... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47716 | 254,776 |
1,097,517 | In 2004, the Dover Area School Board voted that a statement must be read to students of 9th grade biology mentioning intelligent design. This resulted in a firestorm of criticism from scientists and science teachers and caused a group of parents to begin legal proceedings (sometimes referred to as the Dover Panda Trial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34846832 | 1,096,957 |
1,405,992 | These research stations are built to accommodate for the sub-zero climatic conditions of the region as well as considering the placement and construction of it building itself. Antarctic research stations need to be built in a manner to minimize issues such as insulation, freezing of concrete during the building proces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1857169 | 1,405,202 |
1,129,651 | Several surgical techniques via GBR have been proposed regarding the tri-dimensional bone reconstruction of the severely resorbed maxilla, using different types of bone substitutes that have regenerative, osseoinductive or osseoconductive properties which is then packed into the bony defect and covered by resorbable me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15789647 | 1,129,073 |
433,756 | A different approach to confirm that the boson sampling machine behaves as the theory predicts is to make use of fully reconfigurable optical circuits. With large-scale single-photon and multiphoton interference verified with predictable multimode correlations in a fully characterized circuit, a reasonable assumption i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49287688 | 433,542 |
1,339,921 | Various numerical investigations were carried out to predict the interface behavior of the MPW and the in-flight behavior of the flyer to determine the collision conditions. Generally, the flyer velocity prior to the impact governs the interfacial phenomena. This is the characteristic parameter that should be known bas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8549047 | 1,339,188 |
36,738 | Modern ICBMs typically carry multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles ("MIRVs"), each of which carries a separate nuclear warhead, allowing a single missile to hit multiple targets. MIRV was an outgrowth of the rapidly shrinking size and weight of modern warheads and the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties (SA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14939 | 36,726 |
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