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Three-Dimensional Shallow Shear-Wave Velocity Model for the Las Vegas Valley
A three-dimensional (3-D) shear-wave velocity (Vs) model was developed for the heterogeneous sediments of the Las Vegas Valley (LVV) in Nevada. The model was based on more than 200 Vs profiles (one-dimensional representation of Vs versus depth... | <urn:uuid:a722f3b1-229e-483c-9495-266ad14d877b> | 2.578125 | 489 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 30.948583 | 95,627,676 |
January 2017 is now expected to be much colder than average from the Pacific Northwest into the upper Midwest, while parts of the Gulf Coast states will see a mild January, according to an outlook released Wednesday by The Weather Company, an IBM Business.
"There is high confidence for a stretch of notably cold weather... | <urn:uuid:cbedf0e7-7cb4-4df2-a5db-f1075cf3b55f> | 2.609375 | 512 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 34.795903 | 95,627,679 |
A robber fly, Microstylum morosu, with the facial bristles, or mytax (“moustache” in Greek), visible.
Bottom-left: Up-close view of tiny assassin (or "robber") fly, genus Holcocephela, that eats tiny prey such as mites. (Eric Isley via iNaturalist, CC-BY-NC/Smithsonian image by Torsten Dikow)
Assassin or robber, this f... | <urn:uuid:9ad9ff6e-6832-4c30-adf8-b5028020f4cd> | 2.828125 | 678 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 57.430184 | 95,627,697 |
ATHENS, Ga. -- Central Georgia is now in extreme drought conditions, according to the Palmer Drought Severity Index. The rest of the state remains in severe drought except the west central region, which is in moderate drought, and the northwest corner, which is in mild drought.
For the PDSI, the Central Georgia Region ... | <urn:uuid:13a5634c-777b-4617-a444-1a0a56c9fc55> | 2.515625 | 488 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 41.234404 | 95,627,702 |
The inset image on the right is a close-up view of A30 showing X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in purple and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data showing optical emission from oxygen ions in orange.
Inset X-ray (NASA/CXC/IAA-CSIC/M.Guerrero et al); Inset Optical (NASA/STScI); Widefield X-ray (ESA/XMM-Newt... | <urn:uuid:024e8ba0-460c-4505-b9a3-3039ba67c825> | 3.53125 | 1,967 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 45.109834 | 95,627,708 |
How Do Gravity Wave Detectors and Observatories Work?
The first mention of gravity waves as we know them was by Einstein in a 1916 follow-up to his work on relativity. He predicted that minute changes in mass in space-time would cause a wave of gravity to emanate from the object and travel somewhat like a ripple on a p... | <urn:uuid:a5201d8f-4912-48df-b032-c7705ec40990> | 4.25 | 5,363 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 63.116826 | 95,627,731 |
Desktop Applications (Visual C++)
A desktop application in C++ is a native application that can access the full set of Windows APIs and either runs in a window or in the system console. Desktop applications in C++ can run on Windows XP through Windows 10 (although Windows XP is no longer officially supported and there ... | <urn:uuid:10232419-6cde-462d-8d2f-d6aee8243290> | 2.859375 | 1,096 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 44.966633 | 95,627,738 |
What's the value of editorial cartoons in our political reality?
Chances are, you’ve already encountered artificial intelligence today.
Did your email spam filter keep junk out of your inbox? Did you find this site through Google? Did you encounter a targeted ad on your way?
We constantly hear that we’re on the verge o... | <urn:uuid:439f257b-4444-4f87-8d73-a62e07f0ed58> | 2.6875 | 2,016 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 46.972172 | 95,627,742 |
But those missing markers of radiation, remnants from atomic bomb tests a half-century ago, foretell much greater threat to the half-billion or more people living downstream of that vast mountain range.
It may mean that future water supplies could fall far short of what’s needed to keep that population alive.
In a pape... | <urn:uuid:8ef44aa1-4814-42ba-8987-2b6ae25341b5> | 3.75 | 1,706 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 45.086946 | 95,627,745 |
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At-sea abundance and distribution of skuas and jaegers (Charadriiformes: Stercorariidae) at coastal waters off central Chile
© Simeone et al.; licensee Springer. 2014
Received: 22 July 2013
Accepted: 24 March 2014
Published: 15 July 2014
Skuas and jaegers (Charadriiformes: Stercorariidae) are seabirds bre... | <urn:uuid:63665899-b670-483f-9b18-005cee92fedb> | 3.140625 | 6,439 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 45.986489 | 95,627,774 |
The material was formed around four and a half to four billion years ago - in the Earth's so-called Hadean Eon. This is only the second find of its kind in the world, and it shows that certain areas in the upper sections of the Earth's crust can stay untouched for billions of years, thereby storing information from the... | <urn:uuid:fa66be9a-5a68-4481-a90d-d559ad34d472> | 3.828125 | 1,259 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 51.902841 | 95,627,785 |
Archimedes' Mechanical Method
February 17, 2009
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In 1906, Danish mathematical historian J. L. Heiberg made a remarkable discovery in a convent in Constantinople (now Istanbul). He discovered a 900-year old document written over many times, with remnants o... | <urn:uuid:cfba112e-a23c-43bc-aef6-c106de998a3c> | 3.484375 | 285 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 38.792404 | 95,627,791 |
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By: Ernestino Maravalhas(Author)
455 pages, 700 photos, 140 maps
Language: Portuguese with English summaries
Covers all the known butterflies of Portugal including Madeira and the Azores. In the systematic part of the book, each species is treated in the following format: Distribution; Description (incl... | <urn:uuid:2a4417c2-a342-4b00-8b6d-08832da367ee> | 2.640625 | 186 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 36.076641 | 95,627,797 |
Robotic MAV- Micro Air Vehicle Based on an Organic Humming Bird Model
MAV Micro Air Vehicle Based on Organic Hummingbird Model. There is no more interesting bird than a humming bird. Some humming bird species migrate, 500 miles? Wow. Efficient little bird isn't it? It's wings move between 60-80 flap cycles per minute. ... | <urn:uuid:d361f54f-10fa-41ae-baff-2f943e20ae79> | 2.59375 | 2,198 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 51.781302 | 95,627,809 |
In the mathematical field of numerical analysis, Runge's phenomenon (German: [ˈʁʊŋə]) is a problem of oscillation at the edges of an interval that occurs when using polynomial interpolation with polynomials of high degree over a set of equispaced interpolation points. It was discovered by Carl David Tolmé Runge (1901) ... | <urn:uuid:f39ff266-0ee9-4e72-912a-c8aaedd8bed0> | 3.359375 | 1,647 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 39.425089 | 95,627,812 |
Pluto was once considered the ninth planet in our solar system, but it has now been reclassified as a dwarf planet. Instead of its moon Charon orbiting it, Pluto and Charon are both orbiting a center of gravity in between them. Pluto doesn’t have the sweeping, impressive storms of Jupiter, but it does have windstorms t... | <urn:uuid:033d244d-8fbd-4306-a60e-04babe1d472b> | 4.09375 | 764 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 49.587115 | 95,627,816 |
Global Climate Change
Vital Signs of the Planet
Mitigation and Adaptation
Images of Change
Earth Minute Videos
Beautiful Earth Gallery
Graphics and Multimedia
Global Warming vs. Climate Change
Science Mission Directorate (external)
Earth System Science
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Plants and Herbivorous Animals
Plants have a variety of defensive mechanisms which help to reduce damage from herbivores. These may be physical, chemical, physiological or biotic: they vary both quantitatively and qualitatively among and within species. Many plants also show daily, seasonal and annual fluctuations in r... | <urn:uuid:f7bf4803-02f4-4e44-921f-bf3470871181> | 3.609375 | 181 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 10.197466 | 95,627,870 |
In the mathematical discipline of general topology, Stone–Čech compactification (or Čech–Stone compactification) is a technique for constructing a universal map from a topological space X to a compact Hausdorff space βX. The Stone–Čech compactification βX of a topological space X is the largest compact Hausdorff space ... | <urn:uuid:385d2171-2eeb-4eb5-ae31-6bdd8b549a98> | 2.703125 | 3,214 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 55.644347 | 95,627,903 |
Bloodsucking pests like bat fleas and bat flies may not sound very appealing to the rest of us, but to University at Buffalo biologist Katharina Dittmar de la Cruz, Ph.D., they are among the most successful creatures evolution has ever produced.
"From an historical perspective, they have been around forever, they don't... | <urn:uuid:15a93cf5-e591-454c-b5d8-047bfe95778a> | 3.09375 | 1,644 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 44.234217 | 95,627,909 |
Supernova scientist Friedrich Röpke is the leader of the new research group „Physics of Stellar Objects“ at HITS and professor at Heidelberg University. He examines the high-energy processes in the death of stars using computer simulations.
Modern astronomy began with a supernova. In November 1572, Danish astronomer Ty... | <urn:uuid:7ff08d8d-aa0f-4c5d-a9f2-ce74a127ece8> | 2.859375 | 1,727 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 38.135881 | 95,627,925 |
In this chapter we want to discuss two topics: decay of radioactive atoms and the interaction with matter of nuclear radiation emitted by decay of radioactive atoms. The words “radionuclides” could be used interchangeably with “radioactive atoms” in this chapter without confusion. Nuclear radiation is sometimes just ca... | <urn:uuid:343350e0-7185-4799-b99b-67d9834b4e43> | 3.875 | 214 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 17.433333 | 95,627,928 |
WASHINGTON — US marine biologists puzzled by human-like sounds coming from the whale and dolphin tank of an aquarium concluded they were actually coming from a whale.
Anecdotal reports of whales sounding like people are not new. But in this case in San Diego, California, scientists for the first time recorded the utter... | <urn:uuid:2320f86a-317b-45e8-b6d2-ab14bb89826e> | 3.34375 | 322 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 43.684593 | 95,627,940 |
June 21st, 2013 by Brian Squitieri
A successful field campaign collecting meteorological and hydrological data almost always involves a forecasting element. A detailed high quality forecast briefing on the potential evolution of weather events allows the scientists behind the scenes and out in the field to make crucial... | <urn:uuid:620a1ea2-868f-4b87-8927-5e361e00e9ff> | 3.203125 | 4,122 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 45.414953 | 95,627,947 |
Saturn’s auroras are caused by the same phenomenon which leads to dramatic auroral displays on Earth, research shows
Researchers have captured stunning images of Saturn’s auroras as the planet’s magnetic field is battered by charged particles from the Sun. The team’s findings provide a “smoking gun” for the theory that... | <urn:uuid:234205d3-bbf6-4731-8064-c43961154179> | 3.875 | 2,170 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 40.550351 | 95,627,961 |
- Paper report
- Open Access
Methanogenic archaeon sequenced
- Wim D'Haeze
© BioMed Central Ltd 2002
Received: 04 May 2002
Published: 1 August 2002
Determination of the complete genome sequence of the methanogen Methanosarcina acetivorans reveals unusual metabolic versatility
Significance and context
An estimated 900 m... | <urn:uuid:32339459-a1e2-42cd-bc5f-e1ad212d398d> | 2.828125 | 1,039 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 12.921671 | 95,627,967 |
Work Energy and Power
- In our everyday life we use terms like work and enegy.
- Term work is generally used in context to any kind of activity requiring physical or mental effort.
- But this is not the way how we define work done in physics.
- When we push or pull a heavy load or lift it above the floor then we are do... | <urn:uuid:0c6a8dd9-bd3b-4ee7-af9f-3f71db492f00> | 3.921875 | 862 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 49.917375 | 95,627,985 |
Oceans cover 71 percent of the Earth's surface, yet our knowledge of the impact of climate change on marine habitats is a mere drop in the proverbial ocean compared to terrestrial systems. An international team of scientists set out to change that by conducting a global meta-analysis of climate change impacts on marine... | <urn:uuid:74faa665-fe23-41a5-aaa9-ddd54bf14311> | 3.703125 | 1,559 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 29.927279 | 95,627,986 |
Researchers have mapped out the homicidal histories of more than 1000 mammals – and found that the New Zealand sea lion was among the most murderous.
In a long list compiled by an international team of scientists, who just reported their findings of what is called “lethal interpersonal violence”, the critically-endange... | <urn:uuid:36a027a1-c4c2-44d3-8752-a918a87e2503> | 2.8125 | 362 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 37.006865 | 95,627,990 |
React brings an OOP approach along with some functional programming best practices to front end engineering on the web.
This makes it easier to compose a layout in programmatic fashion, opening us to greater utilization of programming paradigms like OOP, FP.
Given the class structure of react components (or containers ... | <urn:uuid:115f48eb-8cdc-4464-ac37-17004f05857b> | 2.59375 | 237 | Personal Blog | Software Dev. | 37.298755 | 95,627,995 |
Physicists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have successfully generated controlled electron pulses in the attosecond range. They used optical travelling waves that are formed by laser pulses of varying wavelengths. The movements of electrons in atoms were revealed using attosecond free-electro... | <urn:uuid:98c25da0-ede7-4e40-9230-fc5d11189519> | 3.359375 | 1,209 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 35.619949 | 95,628,000 |
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Found most commonly in these habitats: 2 times found in Rainforest, 8 times found in lowland rainforest, 5 times found in Wet sclerophyll, 0 times found in Dry sclerophyll, 0 times found in Black Box, 2 times found in sclerophyll woodland, ... | <urn:uuid:0253bd2a-e1a2-4708-8a89-ad7f96d68d08> | 2.796875 | 404 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 63.492955 | 95,628,017 |
William W. Durgin
James C. Hermanson
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The velocity field in the wake of a small scale flexible parachute canopy was measured using two-dimensional particle image velocimetry. The experiments were performed in a water tunnel with the Reynolds number ranging from 3.0-6.0 x 104. Both a fully inflated c... | <urn:uuid:9a73ddfb-5287-4a2e-894f-2cbb6496ec75> | 2.875 | 549 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 37.701303 | 95,628,024 |
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By: Colin W Plant
544 pages, Col photos, tabs, maps
Full colour throughout with photographs of many species, covering all 1548 species of micro- and macro-moths ever recorded in Hertfordshire, with 1428 distribution maps and 595 standard week adult flight charts. Introductory sections cover history, geo... | <urn:uuid:ca5f167c-03f7-44df-a4f4-488c8a9ddded> | 2.578125 | 208 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 41.197632 | 95,628,027 |
Planet Earth never ceases to surprise us. Within the past month we've discovered a canyon and a volcano, both of which are longer and larger than the previous record-holders in those categories.
The first record-breaker, known as the Greenland Grand Canyon, remained unknown until last month because it lies beneath Gree... | <urn:uuid:2fa684bc-dee2-4834-b7b2-5334d8dc515f> | 3.796875 | 735 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 60.368621 | 95,628,029 |
Light in a vacuum is incident on a transparent glass slab. The angle of incidence is 40.6°. The slab is then immersed in a pool of liquid. When the angle of incidence for the light striking the slab is 11.7°, the angle of refraction for the light entering the slab is the same as when the slab was in a vacuum. What is t... | <urn:uuid:3e58339f-55a0-40c2-a2c8-af39e2eb801a> | 3.515625 | 127 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 84.480222 | 95,628,034 |
By K. P. Hart,Jun-iti Nagata,J. E. Vaughan
• extra phrases from common Topology than the other publication ever released
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• Authors contain nearly all of most sensible researchers within the box
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Researchers based at the University of Glasgow, using X-ray data collected at the Synchrotron Radiation Source (SRS) at CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory, have made a major advance in our understanding of the process by which sunlight is converted to food energy, without which life on earth could not exist. The work is publis... | <urn:uuid:55c69b32-dc1e-47f3-b8d3-800eee42ba20> | 3.375 | 852 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 37.921218 | 95,628,053 |
The third expedition of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program’s Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE) completed its mission off the Kii Peninsula today. The expedition science party, 26 scientists representing 10 countries, set forth on Dec. 19, 2007, aboard the drilling vessel Chikyu, to evaluate the... | <urn:uuid:ad9d1ef2-cb8e-4607-9a9c-2b928ea26926> | 2.84375 | 1,143 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 33.750203 | 95,628,068 |
Biochemical Prospective of DNA polymerase in Replication
Biologists and chemists have long recognized a relationship among DNA, RNA, and protein, and this recognition has guided a vast amount of research over the past decades and generations. The pathway of DNA to RNA and RNA to protein is conserved in all forms of lif... | <urn:uuid:a1ffd39e-27e3-479d-b81a-1c0e13557d8e> | 3.296875 | 969 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 32.794559 | 95,628,070 |
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Mathematics is the most important tool of science. The quest to understand the world and the universe using mathematics is ... | <urn:uuid:eab2da8a-2f0e-4491-9b5e-862cb07ded22> | 3.296875 | 184 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 34.332536 | 95,628,085 |
The theory of inductive inference is Bayesian, of course.
But Bayes' rule by itself does not yield Occam's razor.
Suppose x represents the history of our universe up until now.
What is its most likely continuation y? Let us write xy for
the entire history - the concatenation of x and y. Bayes just
says: P(xy | x) = P(x... | <urn:uuid:23420b2d-9b3f-4cf3-b240-6eeda8f79746> | 2.9375 | 475 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 58.509148 | 95,628,089 |
Discovering the ghost-like particle could provide an entirely new way of looking at the cosmos. It was found using the IceCube observatory, a huge facility sunk a mile beneath the surface of the South Pole.
Daily Mail. Fri, 13 Jul 2018 00:03:36 +0100.
Scientists have traced a ghostly particle in Antarctic ice back to i... | <urn:uuid:72f5ef52-51b9-408b-b8ab-456c2c7aba37> | 3.140625 | 328 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 67.635845 | 95,628,101 |
Plastics as Current and Heat Conductors
Historically, engineers have used metals to conduct heat and electricity, while ceramics, glass and plastics have been used as insulators. Recent developments in conductive plastics based on a number of special modifiers have allowed a unique combination of the design and process... | <urn:uuid:34e11bd1-8b5e-4a27-8256-a8b26de56255> | 2.734375 | 133 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | -11.037368 | 95,628,106 |
Fluorescence using ultraviolet (UV) light has seen increased use as a tool in paleontology over the last decade. Laser-stimulated fluorescence (LSF) is a next generation technique that is emerging as a way to fluoresce paleontological specimens that remain dark under typical UV. A laser’s ability to concentrate very hi... | <urn:uuid:950f7508-e9fb-43ac-8838-716324c75c0c> | 3.03125 | 2,949 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 14.39376 | 95,628,118 |
Species Detail - Common Marbled Carpet (Chloroclysta truncata) - Species information displayed is based on all datasets.
Terrestrial Map - 10kmDistribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
Marine Map - 50kmDistribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (... | <urn:uuid:f7212968-1198-4e73-92eb-cf6842cda86c> | 2.703125 | 154 | Structured Data | Science & Tech. | 35.1425 | 95,628,138 |
I already explained how you can use character classes to match a single character out of several possible characters. Alternation is similar. You can use alternation to match a single regular expression out of several possible regular expressions.
If you want to search for the literal text cat or dog, separate both opt... | <urn:uuid:2238bda9-8ffd-4bb7-abd4-d3dbab266ee1> | 4.03125 | 1,355 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 51.632427 | 95,628,176 |
Solar flares and solar winds originate within the sun's atmosphere, but differ greatly from one another. Satellites on Earth and in outer space allow a look at solar flares, but you cannot see solar winds directly. However, the effects of solar winds reaching Earth appear to the naked eye when the aurora borealis and a... | <urn:uuid:ae5a51c2-8c34-4179-8683-752e79910214> | 4.40625 | 470 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 45.244448 | 95,628,186 |
Before the 1600s, knowledge of the Earth's atmosphere and weather was not exact. People mostly relied on experience with local weather events for forecasts. Aunt Sally could smell a snowstorm coming, and Uncle Jim's knee told of impending rain. Then simple devices, such as thermometers, barometers and weather vanes, we... | <urn:uuid:a4422ca8-9853-4883-99a1-84b7b8520fd8> | 3.90625 | 640 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 14.92235 | 95,628,187 |
Saturday, July 07, 2018 by Zoey Sky
Who knew even plants could “break up?”
According to a study, even though plants can cooperate, there are also times when these cooperative relationships break down.
Gijsbert Werner, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Stuart West, Professor of Evolutionary Biology, both in the Department of Zoo... | <urn:uuid:1b28181f-43b1-41a5-988c-94ba2e5f0742> | 3.671875 | 716 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 33.103 | 95,628,197 |
With astronomical images, the colours can be set to mean different things if special filters were used. In this image the red channel was through a [SII] filter, the green through a Halpha filter and the blue through a [OIII] filter. This means red shows S, green H and blue O.
Can you spot Pluto in these two images tak... | <urn:uuid:e62fe0dc-a5b5-448b-8e6c-6532bba0d6cd> | 2.921875 | 895 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 64.80707 | 95,628,219 |
Oscillations and travelling waves
A very important class of shell patterning is caused by pigment productions that occur only during a short time interval, followed by an inactive period without pigment production. Stripes parallel to the growing edge and oblique lines belong to this class of patterns. Oscillations can... | <urn:uuid:b0501333-12d6-4747-a991-6238cd2aa44c> | 2.703125 | 247 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 23.88118 | 95,628,220 |
A View from Brittany Sauser
Simulating Life on Mars
Six people will lock themselves in a Russian-built Mars simulator for 520 days.
Six people will soon find out what it would be like to live on Mars by enclosing themselves in a Russian-built mock-up of the red planet for 520 days. The group is part of a European and R... | <urn:uuid:f50d355f-b770-4b5f-b336-a88a0fa7882c> | 3.59375 | 371 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 44.994668 | 95,628,225 |
Asked by: Jodie Appleton, Taupo, New Zealand
Debris in space, which has been accruing since the 1950s, is a well-documented problem. NASA estimates there are roughly 22,000 objects larger than 10cm in diameter in near-Earth orbit. There are likely tens of millions of smaller pieces, too. Most of this junk is moving at ... | <urn:uuid:f9e292bc-3aa7-429e-87fe-8be446ec1802> | 3.359375 | 215 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 51.844306 | 95,628,230 |
In a Reaction Mechanism, a Reaction Intermediate is a molecular entity that is formed by the reactants which reacts further to form the products. Most chemical reactions require more than one step to form the products; and thus a reaction intermediate is almost always formed during the course of a reaction. However, th... | <urn:uuid:ccc23cb3-d4ad-4b27-954d-821189e9f05f> | 3.890625 | 236 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 47.348671 | 95,628,231 |
Scientists report large-scale surface melting event in Antarctica during 2015-16 El Niño
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, a landbound mass of ice larger than Mexico, experienced substantial surface melt through the austral summer of 2015-2016 during one of the largest El Niño events of the past 50 years, according to scie... | <urn:uuid:46d64edd-0cf1-4fa9-89f8-ced8f2518c38> | 3.78125 | 906 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 26.746293 | 95,628,235 |
Authors: Kenneth Dalton
A black hole model is proposed in which a neutron star is surrounded by a neutral gas of electrons and positrons. The gas is in a completely degenerate quantum state and does not radiate. The pressure and density in the gas are found to be much less than those in the neutron star. The radius of ... | <urn:uuid:e484c417-ae3b-47eb-a9f1-8d33e30bde4f> | 2.828125 | 234 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 48.006923 | 95,628,259 |
The emitters with labyrinth channels are widely applied in drip irrigation system for their simply structures and low manufacturing cost compared with pressure compensating emitters. The pressurized water in pipes drops into the soil slowly and uniformly through emitter’s labyrinth channels. The fluid inside emitters... | <urn:uuid:02e405b1-0495-491d-b639-2e64d5b96a3c> | 2.546875 | 134 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 16.409714 | 95,628,277 |
Harnessing the energy generated when freshwater meets saltwater
Penn State researchers have created a new hybrid technology that produces unprecedented amounts of electrical power where seawater and freshwater combine at the coast.
“The goal of this technology is to generate electricity from where the rivers meet the o... | <urn:uuid:f9b3a7d6-2237-44e6-acdb-4219d3e6c579> | 3.53125 | 1,489 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 43.742929 | 95,628,295 |
A wormhole is a concept that represents a non-trivial solution of the Einstein field equations using the Kasner metric: a non-trivial resolution of the Ehrenfest paradox structure linking separate points in spacetime. A wormhole can be visualized as a tunnel with two ends, each at separate points in spacetime (i.e., di... | <urn:uuid:de65ae4f-128d-44cb-acde-d45be539b267> | 3.734375 | 8,746 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 59.813015 | 95,628,296 |
Socks in the sock drawer, shirts in the shirt drawer, the time-honored lessons of helping organize one's clothes learned in youth. But what parts of the brain are used to encode such categories as socks, shirts or any other item, and how does such learning take place?
New research from Harvard Medical School (HMS) inve... | <urn:uuid:a17d2cb1-65ec-42e3-b593-310a57f8c264> | 3.90625 | 1,400 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 32.707512 | 95,628,299 |
Quantum devices allow us to accomplish computing and sensing tasks that go beyond the capabilities of their classical counterparts. However, protecting quantum information from being corrupted by errors is difficult.
An international team of researchers from Innsbruck, Harvard, Copenhagen and Waterloo put forward a new... | <urn:uuid:71d1b7ce-df1b-423a-aa5b-e109cbbecffc> | 2.96875 | 1,181 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 41.383802 | 95,628,300 |
NEW RESEARCH: 98 scientists launch a 2,000-year global temperature database
A team of 98 scientists from 22 countries has compiled the most comprehensive database of past global temperature records to date, spanning 1 CE to the present.
“This is a shining example of large-scale, co-operative science,” says Jeannine-Mar... | <urn:uuid:88e8354f-2e6f-497a-926c-11d5d45fc744> | 3.359375 | 980 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 35.987298 | 95,628,322 |
Interplay between genes and the environment has been pondered at least since the phrase "nature versus nurture" was coined in the mid-1800s.
But until the arrival of modern genomic sequencing tools, it was hard to measure the extent that the environment had on a species' genetic makeup.
Now, researchers with the Virgin... | <urn:uuid:da9dba3c-f2e3-4240-949e-e18bcaf32a5c> | 4.03125 | 1,553 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 30.531104 | 95,628,340 |
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11. The equation T = 0.63s + 78 can be used to determine T, the temperature in degrees, inside an oven s seconds after the oven is turned on. Which statement relative to this equation is true? *
A) Each second the temperature increases by 78 degrees.
B) Each second the temperature increases ... | <urn:uuid:5b22b81c-0ec0-473a-b149-4750dfa26210> | 3.515625 | 112 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 58.700037 | 95,628,357 |
Benzene Chemical Compound Multiple Choice Questions 1 PDF Download
Practice benzene chemical compound multiple choice questions (MCQs), A level chemistry test 1 for online course prep exams. Learn introduction to benzene MCQs questions and answers on introduction to benzene, reactions of phenol with answers.
Free benze... | <urn:uuid:d0073f7e-06d5-4187-8431-74b1a77151d7> | 3.125 | 271 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 39.618283 | 95,628,365 |
This blog will cover and explain the specification for Edexcel triple science course 2013 for biology. Hope it helps :)
Haha I'm gald!
thank you so much!
will the product be a simple sugar?
Yes, because amylase breaks down starch into the sugar maltose, which is a simple sugar.
Yes that's right, thanks for helping :)
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By Irene Klotz
| CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A U.S. spacecraft set to launch next year will make a series of unprecedented dives into the sun’s scorching atmosphere to see how the star works and what can be done to better predict space weather events on Earth, scientists said on Wednesday. The Parker Sola... | <urn:uuid:0a832e7b-117e-405b-9ad2-cc6103bd6f5b> | 3.65625 | 573 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 43.339012 | 95,628,383 |
Results of the research, conducted by Cory Cleveland and CU scientist Alan Townsend, are published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"The large change in carbon dioxide emissions from tropical forest soils due to soil nutrients is a new dimension in understanding these important ... | <urn:uuid:5776d348-6f29-460c-8ea6-bb6a859969cf> | 3.71875 | 1,300 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 36.553347 | 95,628,384 |
The HadGEM2 Development Team: G. M. Martin
Full Text Available We describe the HadGEM2 family of climate configurations of the Met Office Unified Model, MetUM. The concept of a model "family" comprises a range of specific model configurations incorporating different levels of complexity but with a common physical frame... | <urn:uuid:83e8d8e9-9c41-42ed-a7ae-bcef78ace6c1> | 2.5625 | 110,976 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 27.86195 | 95,628,396 |
The Arctic campaign PAM-ARCMIP (Pan-Arctic Measurements and Arctic Climate Model Intercomparison Project) ended yesterday in Ottawa with the participation of the research aircraft Polar 5.
The campaign which lasted four weeks yielded unique measurement data on sea ice thickness, trace gases, aerosols and meteorological... | <urn:uuid:f946f3a3-2d41-4aee-9435-99a716237523> | 2.734375 | 1,522 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 34.50648 | 95,628,397 |
Not only geologists are interested in giant canyons of Kursk Magnetic Anomaly, but also soil scientists. There is very convenient place to watch old soils, which earlier were on the surface. As the canyons grew wider, details of ancient landscapes and their changes appear. While studying one of those canyons, Svetlana ... | <urn:uuid:d323fbf6-17a8-4047-a540-3a7de638526f> | 3.609375 | 952 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 41.111126 | 95,628,413 |
How do earthquakes occur?1:28
Earthquakes kill about 8,000 people every year, but how do they actually occur?
A POWERFUL earthquake struck off Peru’s coast early Sunday local time, destroying adobe structures and killing at least two people and injuring more than 65, according to officials.
The U.S. Geological Survey r... | <urn:uuid:37b91a60-1ba2-443f-a899-99a55d5b3640> | 3.75 | 347 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 59.263389 | 95,628,424 |
iOS makes it easy to convert numbers like 10 or 100 into their written equivalents: "ten" and "one hundred", and it even handles other languages. For example, to convert the number 556 into "five hundred fifty-six", you would use this code:
let formatter = NumberFormatter() formatter.numberStyle = .spellOut let english... | <urn:uuid:cc49139d-b3e5-4b76-b84b-68029adb0592> | 3.046875 | 266 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 56.795046 | 95,628,455 |
Microsoft codenames are the codenames given by Microsoft to products it has in development, before these products are given the names by which they appear on store shelves. Many of these products (new versions of Windows in particular) are of major significance to the IT community, and so the terms are often widely use... | <urn:uuid:f14c4eda-8fb7-4028-be08-929da2ce2caf> | 2.59375 | 1,112 | Content Listing | Software Dev. | 40.177491 | 95,628,461 |
The relative homogeneity of pelagic environments has been regarded as the reason for the absence of hybrid zones for hybridizing planktonic Daphnia (Crustacea: Cladocera); occasional dominance of interspecific hybrids over parental species was explained by their temporal superiority in fluctuating environments. However... | <urn:uuid:9e273bb8-f4df-4648-97eb-85b3a02c7f19> | 3.25 | 307 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | -3.96811 | 95,628,468 |
Source code: Lib/cgi.py
Support module for Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts.
This module defines a number of utilities for use by CGI scripts written in Python.
A CGI script is invoked by an HTTP server, usually to process user input submitted through an HTML
Most often, CGI scripts live in the server’s special
c... | <urn:uuid:81b961fe-4508-4a13-8944-4eb9798423b7> | 3.484375 | 4,164 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 53.320087 | 95,628,470 |
Albert Einstein proved that energy can be converted into mass and a mass can be converted completely into energy.
In our daily life what is the significance of the idea...if man learns the ability to do so?
E=MC^2 is famous equation associated with "Einstein's Theory of Relativity".
The main significance is maybe the m... | <urn:uuid:761020ea-e947-42da-a67d-18be34883d1b> | 2.796875 | 1,117 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 53.366995 | 95,628,478 |
Species Detail - Cystoseira nodicaulis - Species information displayed is based on all datasets.
Terrestrial Map - 10kmDistribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
Marine Map - 50kmDistribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
(Withering) M Ro... | <urn:uuid:194140fb-dd49-41bd-80a8-ab0c4fcef83f> | 2.578125 | 138 | Structured Data | Science & Tech. | 33.594 | 95,628,479 |
Researchers attack 100-year-old puzzle, learn how a single layer of particles can pack on the surface of a sphere
ARLINGTON, Va. - In a discovery that is likely to impact fields as diverse as medicine and nanomanufacture, researchers have determined how nature arranges charged particles in a thin layer around a sphere.... | <urn:uuid:75558516-9d13-47cd-b493-26190e04f1ff> | 4.21875 | 1,649 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 32.690454 | 95,628,483 |
Computer simulations conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could help scientists make sense of a recently observed and puzzling wrinkle in one of nature’s most important chemical processes.
Artistic rendition of liquid-liquid separation in a supersaturated cal... | <urn:uuid:89a156f3-7567-4867-98ef-cc543576c39e> | 3.59375 | 1,708 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 29.89277 | 95,628,500 |
Authors: M. W. Roberts
A delayed choice experiment is proposed. Signal and idler photon pairs are sent to optical circulators. The fate experienced by an idler photon is described by two different cases. In case I, the idler photon has zero probability to reflect from the entrance beam splitter and therefore always ent... | <urn:uuid:2a619180-b192-481c-9013-7178de1320c1> | 2.609375 | 303 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 42.412652 | 95,628,508 |
A mysterious pair of stars speeding through the outskirts of our galaxy together puzzles astronomers
Today’s paper describes models of what a nearby supernova would do to a young planetary system, and looks at whether the same may have happened to our own solar system.
Today’s bite looks at how the ratio of various ele... | <urn:uuid:7414648e-ae7a-4c7f-b110-611c29f07414> | 3.171875 | 181 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 47.504401 | 95,628,527 |
Humans are causing Earth's temperature rising dangerously high in present time. Half a billion years ago, it was the evolution of early animals that sparked the planet's first global warming event.
Researchers come up with a clever solution for climate change: simply reuse the carbon dioxide in the air over and over ag... | <urn:uuid:8572fe3a-7d86-4cd1-8cc6-3f3101beb321> | 3.71875 | 372 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 37.907356 | 95,628,542 |
Through the study of the natural constants, mainly the fundamental physical constants. This paper found the mathematical relations between the universal gravitational constant, Fermi weak force constant and fine structure constant. The mathematical expressions of the mass of the dark matter and all elementary particles... | <urn:uuid:bed7e8f0-72b2-4cd9-8c8d-7aa2730631e6> | 2.625 | 369 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 35.25676 | 95,628,548 |
For many Earth satellites the effects of the non-Keplerian forces, i.e. the deviations of the gravitational force of the Earth from that of a homogeneous sphere, gravitational forces from Sun/Moon, solar radiation pressure and air drag, must be counteracted.
The deviation of Earth's gravity field from that of a homogen... | <urn:uuid:88d64374-4b08-4ff1-b7cb-0848faf1bc04> | 3.6875 | 2,059 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 40.210228 | 95,628,552 |
We awoke to messages that a towering iceberg is threatening the local waterfront settlement of Innaarsuit. There is perhaps a bit of irony in the fact that a massive looming block of ice is a potential threat to the start of our field season.
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Archives - State of the Planet
In a world fi... | <urn:uuid:47ee64a4-13ee-416d-88fd-26ffcfbbec19> | 2.53125 | 398 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 49.41875 | 95,628,561 |
Application Security Testing: An Integral Part of DevOps
The Red X, ControlBox, or whatever you call it, can be pesky. The ControlBox closes a window in a WinForms application. That's what it's for. If that form is the last open form or the main form, your application closes. If you handle the FormClosing event, you ca... | <urn:uuid:c31cc9aa-5b29-452b-9f94-d078cb653f4d> | 3.5625 | 1,615 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 61.800195 | 95,628,570 |
NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Storm 13W on August 6 at 0205 UTC (Aug. 5 10:05 a.m. EDT). The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument captured an infrared image of the cloud temperatures that showed the strongest storms (purple) and heaviest rainfall north and east of the center of circulation.
NASA'... | <urn:uuid:b6a184a5-1071-486a-9fb9-7b44a42807bb> | 2.671875 | 1,049 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 52.477233 | 95,628,574 |
Programming with Windows Forms
Since the release of the .NET platform (circa 2001), the base class libraries have included a particular API named Windows Forms (represented by the System. Windows. Forms. dll assembly). As you may know, the Windows Forms toolkit provides the types necessary to build desktop graphical us... | <urn:uuid:f82439c0-fdb0-4344-8301-0664957cb10c> | 2.625 | 163 | Knowledge Article | Software Dev. | 36.415673 | 95,628,584 |
This study adopts a two-fold methodological approach to assessing the suitability of olive plantations in mountainous areas for wildlife habitat restoration. Embedding expert judgements through an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) about the effect of specific elements of the landscape on ecological diversity permits the... | <urn:uuid:dbe10698-3cfe-463e-8f18-36f951d6b200> | 2.703125 | 192 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 21.282333 | 95,628,587 |
Animals and plants have divergent sets of blue light receptors, called Cryptochromes. However, green alga Chlamydomonas has both animal-like and plant cryptochrome (pCRY). The presence of multiple cryptochrome suggests specific roles in different pathways in respective organisms. In this paper, Müller et al explore the... | <urn:uuid:08909534-5cfb-4a16-9c5a-945000dd2e86> | 3.015625 | 183 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 15.195785 | 95,628,603 |
Purpose of the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope
The Dwingeloo Radio Telescope was built for scientific research of radio waves from the Milky Way and the universe. As ASTRON no longer uses this telescope for that purpose, CAMRAS gives amateur astronomers and other interested parties the opportunity to experiment in the field ... | <urn:uuid:2aa65f3e-c529-4e0e-97f4-745a72ddeb09> | 4.125 | 1,745 | About (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 26.961051 | 95,628,606 |
Scientists from leading European research institutions in the field of solar-to-fuel energy conversion call for unified action and substantial support for novel clean fuel technologies as well as a paradigm change in Europe’s current energy policy.
This is crucial if Europe is to maintain its environmental stability an... | <urn:uuid:4a4cac18-a8b6-471f-9c4c-23a3fd915d00> | 2.78125 | 1,542 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 28.731209 | 95,628,607 |
Before the sun rises on Sunday, the Quadrantid meteors will make their yearly appearance, about one a minute streaking across the dark sky. A California astronomer says he has finally figured out where all those streaks of light came from.
The light shows occur when Earth crosses debris trails left by comets.
The Perse... | <urn:uuid:acaafd41-a371-4ffb-b510-47f1ff991481> | 3.703125 | 970 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 56.323482 | 95,628,608 |
Caretta caretta (North East Indian Ocean subpopulation)
|Scientific Name:||Caretta caretta (North East Indian Ocean subpopulation)|
See Caretta caretta
|Red List Category & Criteria:||Critically Endangered D ver 3.1|
|Reviewer(s):||Wallace, B.P. & Pilcher, N.J.|
The North East Indian Ocean subpopulation of Loggerhead T... | <urn:uuid:1e234c91-5b76-4e69-ad0b-8fe6f370f534> | 3.140625 | 3,246 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 30.728826 | 95,628,618 |
- Short report
- Open Access
Pollination ecology and breeding system of two Calceolaria species in Chile
© Murúa et al.; licensee Springer. 2014
Received: 11 October 2013
Accepted: 24 March 2014
Published: 15 July 2014
Many angiosperms are exclusively dependent on pollinators for its reproduction (Matallana et al. 2010... | <urn:uuid:0e18f250-2bdc-4924-af7b-21227b362471> | 2.71875 | 2,182 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 43.663366 | 95,628,627 |
posted by Anonymous
determine two geometreic sequences whose first terms are 18x-9, 2x+8 and x-1
how would I go about and do this question?
I have no idea! so a little help would be really helpful! thanks!
A geometric sequence looks like
a, ar, ar2, ar3, ..., arn, ...
where a is usually called the base and r is the com... | <urn:uuid:c66d1f13-8f8f-43e5-b55b-58ee69f5cf3d> | 2.9375 | 226 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 101.268036 | 95,628,629 |
How to add operators? About Monkey 2 › Forums › Monkey 2 Programming Help › How to add operators? This topic contains 1 reply, has 2 voices, and was last updated by Mark Sibly 3 months, 2 weeks ago. Viewing 2 posts - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) Author Posts April 8, 2018 at 3:28 am #14292 SekaiChiParticipant I´m trying to... | <urn:uuid:31278a01-6793-470b-abd6-9e7225416b70> | 2.53125 | 226 | Comment Section | Software Dev. | 67.511378 | 95,628,632 |
A perfect storm of events created a massive magnetic cloud that could have caused fireworks on Earth
Earth dodged a huge magnetic bullet from the sun on July 23, 2012.
According to University of California, Berkeley, and Chinese researchers, a rapid succession of coronal mass ejections – the most intense eruptions on t... | <urn:uuid:b9303a0d-2799-4216-8889-1f007730ff2a> | 3.859375 | 1,335 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 48.284834 | 95,628,641 |