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Engineering Protein Stability with Atomic Precision
CREDIT Emily G. Baker et al.
This research will help to design small proteins and small molecules that could be the basis for future biotechnologies and medicines.
A team of chemists and biochemists from the Bristol BioDesign Institute have designed a new protein stru... | <urn:uuid:11f62f33-ee7b-4d12-a9cf-0e3e8b5bc097> | 3.546875 | 993 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 31.794193 | 95,598,657 |
Program a robot to explore a world
You construct a program for a robot, then watch him explore a world. The world has people who can hurt you, objects you can bump into, and food you can eat. The goal of the game is to collect as many prizes as possible before you are killed run out of energy. The robot program is writ... | <urn:uuid:777f65b0-9d7a-46e5-81ab-5676037333e3> | 2.546875 | 433 | Truncated | Software Dev. | 57.984199 | 95,598,693 |
Was the early universe a LIQUID? Atom smasher creates smallest ever droplets... and gives clues about the primordial soup created by the Big Bang
- Scientists smashed protons and lead atoms together at CERN near Geneva
- They hoped to replicate the quark-gluon plasma from the early universe
- Particles formed tiny drop... | <urn:uuid:07eb1244-8ca1-4495-bda3-b639404b5a24> | 3.40625 | 1,456 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 36.016343 | 95,598,708 |
2 H 2 + O 2 → 2 H 2 O. +. Identify the factors that could affect the rate of a chemical reaction. Use the Collision Theory to explain the factors influencing the rate of a reaction. Explain the effect these factors have on the shape of a kinetic energy distribution curve.
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tokamak(redirected from Torus (nuclear physics))
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A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research in which a plasma is heated and confined by magnetic fields.
[Russian, from to(roidal'naya) kam(era s) ak(sial'nym magnitnym polem), toroidal chamber with axial magnetic field.]
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Conservation is not always equal. If you go to a zoo you’ll find inescapable evidence of that, the megafauna are the main attractions; elephants, tigers and of course great apes are what you go to see. Visitor numbers are not determined by the species of rare invertebrates, birds or even the monkeys you’ll find housed ... | <urn:uuid:9f6a6b8f-791c-4749-992b-ba48be1a488d> | 3.359375 | 674 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 39.984995 | 95,598,759 |
Expertise derived from working on the joint NASA-ESA Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and its moon Titan is now being applied to underground drilling machines. This is providing tunnelling engineers with an improved ability to virtually "see" some 40 metres into solid rock and pinpoint obstacles ahead.
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What factors will affect the time of a falling paper cone
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Some people believe that the Earth is being harmed （damaged） by human activity. Others feel that human activity makes the Earth a better place to live. What is your opinion? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
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Never before have astrophysicists measured light of such high energy from a celestial object so far away. Around 7 billion years ago, a huge explosion occurred at the black hole in the center of a galaxy. This was followed by a burst of high-intensity gamma rays. A number of telescopes, MAGIC included, have succeeded i... | <urn:uuid:cb10ac1b-20dd-4a52-9280-49e769cdcdf6> | 3.65625 | 1,535 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 43.024042 | 95,598,827 |
Liquids and Solutions and Solids
- 1 Structure and Intermolecular forces
- 2 3 types of intermolecular forces
- 3 3 types of Crystalline Solid States
Structure and Intermolecular forces[edit | edit source]
Interactive molecular forces[edit | edit source]
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How AI will revolutionize climate science: Experts say machine learning could dramatically improve predictions
- Major challenge in predicting climate models is accurately representing clouds
- New artificial intelligence can better represent clouds in coarse resolution
- Trained a deep neural network to learn from sim... | <urn:uuid:6246a62c-c798-4658-9ec9-12bae3960ee4> | 3.25 | 920 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 25.287351 | 95,598,836 |
|In spite of the importance of insects, data of their biology remains far away from complete. At present, however, there are a unit extremely exciting developments occurring among the sphere of insect analysis, as a result of the genomes from twenty four insect species have recently been sequenced, or area unit within ... | <urn:uuid:fa91e393-cc98-4901-a1a8-9011324ace8c> | 2.8125 | 467 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 23.276855 | 95,598,854 |
Biohabitats’ Leaf Litter
Vol. 3 Number 3
Thoughts on Roads
Like it or not, roads have become the arteries of our social and economic lives. Roads are necessary to transport goods and services to the marketplace, move people to and from their places of work, shopping, and social engagements, and serve as vital links to ... | <urn:uuid:881d570f-3f52-4afd-9951-42668a398bde> | 3.46875 | 846 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 36.744732 | 95,598,869 |
An international team of researchers, including scientists of the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, has sequenced and analysed the genome of the elephant shark.
The immune system of the elephant shark is simpler than many other vertebrates studied so far. The present studies also explain, why carti... | <urn:uuid:bd83b2f0-7f56-48f3-b8f2-11d1dcb98b6d> | 3.359375 | 1,535 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 31.739666 | 95,598,871 |
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A string fixed at both ends is 9.31 m long and has a mass of 0.125 kg. It is subjected to a tension of 100.0 N and set oscillating.
(a) What is the speed of the waves on the string?
(b) What is the longest possible wavelength for a standing wave?
(c) Give the frequency of that wave.
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Using underwater 360º virtual reality to raise awareness of the beauty,
fragility, and importance of the world’s oceans.
Using high definition underwater 360º virtual reality to raise awareness of the beauty, the fragility, and the critical importance of the world’s oceans.
The world’s oceans and the living creatures t... | <urn:uuid:19667338-d3ae-4a93-8986-c1d65e08df16> | 3.1875 | 520 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 38.208748 | 95,598,903 |
Adaptation to Coastal Erosion in Vulnerable Areas, is a coastal protection activity implemented in Senegal by the Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE). The activity is to protect the coastal areas of Rufisque, Saly and Joal – all just outside Senegal’s capital Dakar – against further erosion caused by sea level rise and st... | <urn:uuid:02ca67bf-071e-4d97-b4ea-97fe2bbcaead> | 3.125 | 1,190 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 15.858665 | 95,598,913 |
Public talk on climate change, coastal hazards and sea level
Public talk on climate change, coastal hazards and sea level rise
Hawke’s Bay people will get the chance to learn more about New Zealand’s latest coastal hazards and sea level science and how the impacts can be managed.
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This is an unusual and interesting question. I think it might help to generalize it:
- Given a list of species, how can I find those that have DNA sequence?
- or how can I find a specific DNA sequence for a list of species?
To start with the second question: which sequence(s) do you want to use to buil... | <urn:uuid:405d6305-fbfb-492b-85d9-110d2c658bb9> | 3.140625 | 269 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 60.812966 | 95,598,925 |
Habitat preference and spatial distribution of Guiana dolphins (Sotalia guianensis) in Norte Bay, southern Brazil, was studied from 2001 to 2005. Boat surveys (N ¼ 91) were made to evaluate the spatial distribution of the dolphins. Seven habitat variables were integrated into a geographical information system, and habi... | <urn:uuid:6c792d38-4439-44a1-866e-62c1332d7298> | 3.734375 | 396 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 28.73923 | 95,598,947 |
mashlib and Data Browser
The mashlib (
mashlib.js) is a solid-compatible data mashup library. One major
use of it is as a data browser for a personal data store.
The mashlib has been used before originally in various apps in specific data interaction in different domains. It has been used in a browser extension (in Fir... | <urn:uuid:6db3cb52-db08-4378-a70a-ba712c3214be> | 2.546875 | 788 | About (Org.) | Software Dev. | 47.971092 | 95,598,975 |
"This planet is a complete mystery," says astronomer David Latham of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). "We don't know how it formed or how it got to where it is today. What we do know is that it's not going to last forever."
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Lcm of three numbers
What is the Lcm of 120 15 and 5
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Statistics Definitions > Homogeneity & Homogeneous Data
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Lecture Kathrin Muller
|07 maart 2011||FWN-Building 5114.0004, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG, Groningen|
|Speaker:||Dr. Kathrin Muller|
|Affiliation:||Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA|
|Title:||A surface science approach to to alternative CO2 capture and utilization routes|
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“We want the system to be secured”.
Security is a non-functional property of the system, the main goal for securing the system to make this system dependable. So, we can depend on this system and it can perform its excepted functions as requ... | <urn:uuid:0e66ef0b-b89b-44b8-b722-d75a68c8a1f2> | 2.8125 | 426 | Knowledge Article | Software Dev. | 20.073111 | 95,599,462 |
Since astronomers first measured the size of an extrasolar planet seventeen years ago, they have struggled to answer the question: how did the largest planets get to be so large? Thanks to the recent discovery of twin planets by a University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy team lead by graduate student Samuel Grunbla... | <urn:uuid:6b212c6f-2b00-4505-8e0b-a88d3fe3fdc7> | 4.375 | 922 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 42.37938 | 95,599,489 |
Look closely. The cosmic dust captured in this infrared photo of the Milky Way may be brimming with space grease.
Credit: NASA/ JPL-Caltech
Space: It’s dark, cold and, in most parts of the galaxy, probably pretty sticky.
Swirled amid the dust, soot and electromagnetic radiation that sits among the stars of the Milky Wa... | <urn:uuid:a054e381-7d67-4832-8de2-e1a7626a3832> | 3.375 | 765 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 39.547218 | 95,599,507 |
Magnetic, temperature and structural studies have yielded new insights on the material sodium iridium oxide
RIKEN scientists have discovered a new state of matter with unusual magnetic properties—its constituent electrons are in a continuous state of flux, even at incredibly cold temperatures.
As electrons spin, they g... | <urn:uuid:f1fef59c-3aaf-4f8e-afab-f778ba35b2c8> | 3.078125 | 1,263 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 37.952328 | 95,599,520 |
Has volcanic activity been increasing?
The Global Volcanism Program does not see any evidence that volcanic activity is actually increasing. Data about eruptions compiled by the Smithsonian since 1968 provide context for assessing issues of regional and global volcanism. The following figures and discussion below are m... | <urn:uuid:14cdd990-29ee-42d5-aa6c-dcc176140489> | 3.53125 | 1,796 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 28.528035 | 95,599,524 |
If you continue the pattern, can you predict what each of the following areas will be? Try to explain your prediction.
What is the ratio of the area of a square inscribed in a semicircle to the area of the square inscribed in the entire circle?
ABC and DEF are equilateral triangles of side 3 and 4 respectively. Constru... | <urn:uuid:9b3387da-1ebf-4238-83de-75ae61546ef9> | 3.75 | 1,610 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 75.18778 | 95,599,572 |
Characterisation of the structure of graphene
Graphene, the world's first two-dimensional material, is many times stronger than steel, more conductive than copper, lightweight, flexible and one million times thinner than a human hair.
Graphene is set to improve the quality of life for many across the globe. Potential a... | <urn:uuid:971c9aa1-e018-4803-ae15-631f1d852012> | 3.203125 | 622 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 9.950114 | 95,599,635 |
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Unaligned reading is performed using a pair of LWL and LWR, usually they are not contiguous if the compiler tries to use other regi... | <urn:uuid:e04ea25c-2557-45dc-a1ce-f826f509940d> | 2.625 | 195 | News (Org.) | Software Dev. | 45.100306 | 95,599,653 |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers are making key contributions to a physics experiment that will look for one of nature's most elusive particles, "dark matter," using a tank nearly a mile underground beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota.
The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment located at the Sa... | <urn:uuid:02738ffb-2e20-4d93-98a1-8516f34b63c3> | 3.171875 | 1,008 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 26.496992 | 95,599,667 |
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Understanding pollution, its behaviour and impact is becoming increasingly important, as new technologies and legislation continually lower the tolerable levels of pollutants released into the environment. Introduction to Pollution Science draws upon sections of the authors' previ... | <urn:uuid:51dcac82-ab20-4333-b6e3-b6bf50a173f8> | 3.296875 | 432 | User Review | Science & Tech. | 19.638513 | 95,599,674 |
Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions Have Now Been Flat for Two Years Running
The International Energy Agency says emissions growth has decoupled from global economic growth.
New data published by the International Energy Agency extends the surprising finding, discovered last year, that global carbon dioxide emissions have ... | <urn:uuid:b1da38f5-536e-4bb7-819a-885aa70185f3> | 2.71875 | 349 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 32.355551 | 95,599,676 |
American pikas, the chirpy, potato-sized denizens of rocky debris in mountain ranges and high plateaus in western North America, are holding their own in the Southern Rocky Mountains, says a new University of Colorado Boulder study.
American pikas are holding their own in the Southern Rocky Mountains, says new CU-Bould... | <urn:uuid:3234c576-7d38-4f1d-b4dd-c5fdf1e23e7f> | 3.671875 | 1,960 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 35.645418 | 95,599,689 |
Citric Acid Cycle The citric acid cycle starts with the combination of acetyl-CoA (2C) and oxaloactate (4C) to generate citrate (6C). Through a series of eight reactions, two CO2 molecules are released, and oxaloacetate is regenerated. The citric acid cycle does not directly generate much energy. Each turn of the cycle... | <urn:uuid:adfb79e1-c4b3-4419-be67-92765badb6c6> | 3.328125 | 386 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 27.031795 | 95,599,697 |
Time-resolved “stop-action” measurements and advanced theoretical simulations identify an unusual form of energy loss
Understanding the properties of complex quantum materials is a major goal of condensed matter physics and materials science, since effects like high-temperature superconductivity might lead to a broad r... | <urn:uuid:80537085-6f5e-4b62-8a70-b3d138385832> | 3.234375 | 1,951 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 40.607542 | 95,599,709 |
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According to evolutionists, the diamonds formed about 1–3 billion years ago.
When objects of the Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom of Egypt yielded carbon dates that appeared roughly comparable with the histori... | <urn:uuid:1fb3978e-d129-424e-925e-e69c0c950079> | 3.28125 | 227 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 34.33546 | 95,599,712 |
NEW ORLEANS – Hurricane Harvey’s historic deluge in Texas showed clear signs of human-caused climate change, with rainfall at least 15 percent heavier and the likelihood of such a calamity tripled, according to two independent studies published Wednesday. The new findings are part of a surge of research suggesting that... | <urn:uuid:c2f5e07d-35a9-4c7f-9949-c2c047882ce7> | 2.96875 | 1,200 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 41.780473 | 95,599,717 |
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Sea ice extent in the Arctic region continues to run close to the 1979-2000 year average at this time. Thin, one-year ice continues to remain entrenched across a large part of the Bering Sea thanks in part to the bitterly cold winter and favorable winds into the early Spring.
However, just because t... | <urn:uuid:5369e7bf-4a6f-4a38-91b4-e6a255e3ad7e> | 3.125 | 486 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 49.438686 | 95,599,718 |
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write each of the following as the ratio of two integers in lowest terms:
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Any integer n can be written as n/1. If the ratio of two integers is in lowest terms then the greatest common divisor or gcd of them is 1. What is the gcd of 3 and 4? | <urn:uuid:c627d0a7-1ebf-40f6-a5c0-114d34b7e013> | 3.265625 | 73 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 89.245 | 95,599,721 |
Skip to comments.Climate alarmists lose another piece of evidence
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Don't look now, but another big chunk of the "evidence" for man-made global warming suddenly disappeared. Poof! Researchers just reported that the world's most recent case of "abrupt climate change"which ... | <urn:uuid:fe3bb4eb-f362-4366-98ab-c301aeb419d6> | 3.28125 | 2,657 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 38.23758 | 95,599,725 |
At long last, we have a professional animation explaining how the Direct Fusion Drive works. Enjoy!
The audience learns, watching the movie “Solo,” that the Millennium Falcon has a nuclear fusion power plant! The Millennium Falcon is a modified YT-1330 Corellian light freighter manufactured by the Corellian Engineering... | <urn:uuid:5ac4e591-74eb-43d7-8ce8-f3a09c493940> | 3.296875 | 2,629 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 51.229142 | 95,599,726 |
In late 2013, when the neutron star at the heart of one of our galaxy's oddest supernovae gave off a massive burst of X-rays, the resulting echoes -- created when the X-rays bounced off clouds of dust in interstellar space -- yielded a surprising new measuring stick for astronomers.
Circinus X-1 is a freak of the Milky... | <urn:uuid:9d2864ef-7fd7-4999-884b-66d52e9db500> | 4 | 1,571 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 45.982172 | 95,599,748 |
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|Hydrolagus colliei, a rat fish|
The subclass Holocephali ("complete heads") is a taxon of cartilaginous fish in the class Chondrichthyes. The earliest... | <urn:uuid:38e58b9a-abd0-4270-94af-af7b439db192> | 3.078125 | 810 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 52.519446 | 95,599,771 |
Smithsonian scientist challenges results of recent study
Late last year, Frédéric Achard and colleagues published a controversial article in which they contended that earlier estimates of worldwide tropical deforestation and atmospheric carbon emissions were too high. In the February 14 issue of Science, Philip Fearnsi... | <urn:uuid:87d6e2d9-ab67-4bde-a799-a986894a9325> | 3.234375 | 899 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 37.393092 | 95,599,775 |
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This video helps students understand the possible effect of increasing sea surface temperature on the intensity of hurricanes. The support materials provide an introduction to hurricanes and hurricanes as heat.
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Tracer experiments for the determination of chemical forms of radioiodine in water samples
Two simple methods, (1) isotope exchange method and (2) anion exchanger column method, are developed for the determination of chemical forms of radioiodine (iodide and iodate) in water samples. Using these methods, transformation... | <urn:uuid:4d02ba5d-e5ca-4da3-bfe7-95045b3b37d6> | 2.65625 | 417 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 67.942286 | 95,599,881 |
A data type is a set of objects and a set of operations on those objects which create, build-up, destroy, modify and pick apart instances of the objects. Every programming language begins by supplying a set of data types. In LISP, the major data type is the binary tree (called an S-expression) and the basic operations ... | <urn:uuid:96cb05c1-d96b-4f56-98f9-ccb938045e79> | 3.671875 | 148 | Truncated | Software Dev. | 49.544471 | 95,599,882 |
A semi-synthetic organism that stores and retrieves increased genetic information
Since the last common ancestor of all life on earth, the biological diversity has been encoded in a four letter, two base pair genetic alphabet. Expansion of the genetic alphabet to include a fifth and sixth letter than for a third, unnat... | <urn:uuid:89872b0d-ec10-44f7-ac68-05e8a55cc585> | 2.53125 | 1,139 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | -4.355409 | 95,599,911 |
Retained trivial and semisystematic names for heteromonocyclic compounds are given in R-9.1, Table 23 and Table 24.
Examples of Hantzsch-Widman names (R-22.214.171.124)
(Cyclohexagermane, according to R-2.3.2)
R-126.96.36.199.1 The position of a single heteroatom determines the numbering in a monocyclic compound.
R-188... | <urn:uuid:c7ac839c-ba7b-4a6a-837a-99eb4af6bbc6> | 2.6875 | 569 | Structured Data | Science & Tech. | 81.145227 | 95,599,912 |
This has now been done by CNRS researcher Pascal Hersen (1) and the team led by Sharad Ramanathan at the Center for Systems Biology (Harvard University). Using a simple and innovative measuring device that they developed, the researchers have confirmed the hypothesis that above a certain stimulation frequency, the yeas... | <urn:uuid:05dedda2-824f-4626-aff5-65e0f6771db1> | 3.625 | 1,409 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 39.463457 | 95,599,914 |
The international collaboration is comprised of researchers from the University of Colorado, USA and the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen and the results have just been published in the prestigious scientific journal, Science.
An atomic clock consists of gas atoms captured in a magnetic field where ... | <urn:uuid:cf89bea0-1ff2-4a2e-bdf3-ce22ae3066e7> | 4.0625 | 1,326 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 44.632374 | 95,599,915 |
Are any of you signed up for the 2011 Ant Course? It is going to be held at the American Museum of Natural History's Southwestern Research Station near Portal, Arizona this year, or at least it was supposed to be. You see, there is a big fire burning in southeastern Arizona right now. They had to evacuate the station o... | <urn:uuid:26d72d39-a72f-4cb8-867a-63f97bb66d58> | 2.640625 | 993 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 63.593797 | 95,599,935 |
Mason bee is a name now commonly used for species of bees in the genus Osmia, of the family Megachilidae. Mason bees are named for their habit of using mud or other "masonry" products in constructing their nests, which are made in naturally occurring gaps such as between cracks in stones or other small dark cavities; w... | <urn:uuid:e313c415-03b9-4278-aedd-22913e234b0b> | 3.578125 | 1,979 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 57.580647 | 95,599,938 |
A robot wheels across a rocky, windswept landscape that looks like the surface of some distant planet from a science fiction film. But it is not in outer space, it's on the slopes of Europe's most active volcano. Mount Etna, in Sicily, is a test bed for the approximately three-foot high, four-wheeled machine ahead of a... | <urn:uuid:8f2b86a4-56e3-40c1-9375-a038b292744a> | 3.59375 | 325 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 35.193545 | 95,599,944 |
The human nose has millions of olfactory neurons grouped into hundreds of different neuron types. Each of these neuron types expresses only one odorant receptor, and all neurons expressing the same odorant receptor plug into one region in the brain, an organization that allows for specific odors to be sensed.
For examp... | <urn:uuid:4dff8041-7c96-4221-a13a-f5f8e638998b> | 3.359375 | 1,884 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 36.517161 | 95,599,945 |
Ormosils are organic-inorganic hybrid solids inwhichthe organiccomponentmaybe chemicallybonded to a silica matrix. Somewhat similar to inorganic silicate glasses, the structure of the silica network can be modified by the presence of organic groups. The resulting properties of the Ormosils are then governed by the type... | <urn:uuid:091452b9-efce-4ab7-9f50-e894bb38aa07> | 3.03125 | 221 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 15.865649 | 95,599,946 |
Pumping liquid carbon dioxide underground on a massive scale so it won’t contribute to global warming has been talked about for years. Howard Herzog, an MIT chemical engineer and the program manager of the Carbon Sequestration Initiative, an industrial consortium, says the most recent international conference on the su... | <urn:uuid:3bca1202-5e55-4f8f-931c-485a5b330e33> | 3.109375 | 773 | Audio Transcript | Science & Tech. | 44.275946 | 95,599,949 |
The sea bed could be one big battery.
Researchers name the microbes that could produce power by munching pollution.
Bacteria could clear up oil spills and generate electricity at the same time. US scientists have identified microbes that produce power as they digest organic waste1.
The bacteria strip electrons from car... | <urn:uuid:07ff09fc-b6fd-4420-8264-a7c4abc39d67> | 3.734375 | 958 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.102346 | 95,599,984 |
“We certainly were surprised to find such a bright young galaxy 13 billion years in the past”, said astronomer Garth Illingworth of the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA and a member of the research team. “This is the most detailed look to date at an object so far back in time.”
According to the authors, the me... | <urn:uuid:bbe25370-0430-4846-a11c-915bd61663ae> | 3.5 | 1,793 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 40.035914 | 95,600,014 |
Introduction:Python is a high-level, structured, open-source programming language that can be used for a wide variety of programming tasks. Python was created by Guido Van Rossum in the early 1990s; its following has grown steadily and interest has increased markedly in the last few years. Another great feature of Pyth... | <urn:uuid:161e9007-d53b-4242-97f3-622fe6308c32> | 3.09375 | 364 | Personal Blog | Software Dev. | 52.630395 | 95,600,021 |
SYDNEY (AP) — Mass bleaching has killed more than a third of the coral in the northern and central parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, though corals to the south have escaped with little damage, scientists said on Monday.
Researchers who conducted months of aerial and underwater surveys of the 2,300-kilometer (1,4... | <urn:uuid:eeb152cd-47b9-4418-b2a0-94870b5b3af5> | 3.125 | 847 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 47.75751 | 95,600,027 |
Let's turn the table. Suppose your goal is to deliberately create buggy programs in C and C++ with serious security vulnerabilities that can be "easily" exploited. Then you need to know about things like stack smashing, shellcode, arc injection, return-oriented programming. You also need to know about annoying protecti... | <urn:uuid:37e033bb-620d-4e71-8a4d-f1c8738105a8> | 2.796875 | 117 | Truncated | Software Dev. | 43.333333 | 95,600,028 |