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On 15 May IASS Director Mark Lawrence will present the latest research on black carbon and its effects on health, the climate, and development in a short talk at the preparatory meeting for the UN Climate Conference in Bonn.
Particulate matter puts human health in danger: Everybody who inhales it is at risk of developi... | <urn:uuid:0c0a589a-999d-43c6-9677-123b0ffedc28> | 3.078125 | 1,291 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 35.70121 | 95,629,730 |
Birmingham Live Unlike 2017, bright moonlight won't get in the way of this year's display. There is a new moon on Saturday, August 11, meaning dark skies that night and on the next few nights. There will be only the faintest sliver of a crescent on August 12 and 13 ...
ISRAEL21c Ramon Crater Nature Reserve, considered ... | <urn:uuid:3450a136-b6b6-4204-ae56-41502c4f628a> | 2.5625 | 490 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 69.841571 | 95,629,735 |
A repository & source of cutting edge news about emerging terahertz technology, it's commercialization & innovations in THz devices, quality & process control, medical diagnostics, security, astronomy, communications, applications in graphene, metamaterials, CMOS, compressive sensing, 3d printing, and the Internet of N... | <urn:uuid:c181c0a3-ff2a-4d5d-9803-0686d46d7282> | 2.5625 | 249 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | -3.486316 | 95,629,742 |
Earthquakes have several terms associated with them.india Updated: Mar 13, 2003 15:10 IST
The focus is the point within the Earth's crust from where seismic waves originate. The focus is also called the hypocentre and the shortest distance between the focus and the Earth's surface is called the focal distance.
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The image is a composite made from 18 separate images taken using Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), and it shows the Cas A remnant as a broken ring of bright filamentary and clumpy stellar ejecta. These huge swirls of debris glow with the heat generated by the passage of a shockwave from the supernova blast. ... | <urn:uuid:5998de58-efc9-45bc-9fe7-d6fd6bc4f3d9> | 3.453125 | 1,090 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 40.993929 | 95,629,754 |
Novel services for tropical forest monitoring with satellite
A consortium led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is developing methods for monitoring tropical forests using satellite data in a project funded by the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission. The objective of the ReCover project is to d... | <urn:uuid:d2a039f6-994c-45d9-9c23-313ea821336d> | 2.5625 | 440 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 26.804495 | 95,629,760 |
''The exciting thing is really for the first time, using a time series of satellite images, we can monitor Earth in a way that we haven't been able to,'' Seto said. ''It's not just about urban growth or wetlands-it could be about desertification or deforestation-but it's really just this issue of human modification of ... | <urn:uuid:ed07ce08-7cfa-4647-b8b0-8091a42f1e96> | 3.796875 | 1,653 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 35.786413 | 95,629,778 |
Popular Science Monthly/Volume 8/February 1876/The Nature of Fluorescence
|THE NATURE OF FLUORESCENCE|
PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN.
THE question now arises. What becomes of the rays that have undergone absorption? Are they in fact, as they appear to be, annihilated? A series of phenomena now to b... | <urn:uuid:2fc030c0-b25d-43aa-9167-4c3fea3daacd> | 3.234375 | 2,914 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 39.613462 | 95,629,788 |
Achievement Could Improve Understanding of Superconductivity
The images above show the creation of ultracold molecules during the JILA experiments. Left -- A rainbow color scale indicates the numbers of ultracold gaseous potassium (K40) atoms in the vacuum chamber in two different fermion states. White areas have the m... | <urn:uuid:102a3b46-bd16-41e3-93fd-8651c2f7ba8b> | 3.671875 | 960 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 36.17458 | 95,629,805 |
Light causes drosophila to take longer midday nap
News Sep 16, 2016
Fruit flies' activity peaks especially in the morning and late afternoon. The insects extend their midday siesta on long summer days. Researchers from the University of Würzburg have now found out what triggers this behavior. A miniature pair of eyelet... | <urn:uuid:f4184053-f26a-42df-95c3-e10dd43e826a> | 3.328125 | 927 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 37.235697 | 95,629,823 |
Review of Chionelasmus darwini (Pilsbry, 1907) (Cirripedia : Balanomorpha) : A Comparison between the Pacific and Indian Ocean Populations Review of Chionelasmus darwini (Pilsbry, 1907) (Cirripedia : Balanomorpha) : A Comparison between the Pacific and Indian Ocean Populations
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Growth rate (group theory)
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In group theory, the growth rate of a group with respect to a symmetric generating set describes the size of balls in the group. Every element in the group can be writte... | <urn:uuid:7a15218e-722e-455b-b04b-8d16144af13d> | 2.796875 | 836 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 59.510392 | 95,629,845 |
$12-Million Awarded to Study the Human Genome in 4-D
News Oct 20, 2015
In order to fit within the nucleus of a cell, the human genome must bend, fold and coil into an unimaginably compact shape – and still function. This is no mean feat: The human genome is about 6.5 feet long, and the average cell nucleus is only 6 to... | <urn:uuid:3763c69f-59d5-4341-bc41-c3447e879e06> | 2.734375 | 640 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 30.514211 | 95,629,854 |
The process takes place in binary stars – star systems consisting of two stars orbiting around their common centre of mass. This helps to resolve a long standing mystery in stellar evolution.
The research, which is part funded by the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and carried out by scientists at... | <urn:uuid:47c82add-eafb-4fe4-aa39-57162d258170> | 3.75 | 1,244 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 40.285334 | 95,629,891 |
Authors: Solomon I. Khmelnik
Recently, there appeared a mathematical model of oceanic whirlpools , which is almost identical to the models built for space black holes. The similarity between the whirlpools and black holes is found in the fact that an object that happened to be near these objects becomes involved in the... | <urn:uuid:6f6cab5a-3b08-4a93-ab0f-d035d2bde6e8> | 2.953125 | 422 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 42.641369 | 95,629,899 |
Epoch MJD 55590.99 Equinox J2000
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|Declination||72° 40′ 00.61″|
|Apparent magnitude (J (2MASS filter system))||±0.04515.086|
|Apparent magnitude (H (2MASS filter system))||±0.07714.728|
|Apparent magnitude (KS (2MASS filter system))||±0.07814.650|
|Proper motion (μ)|| RA: ±69−220 mas/yr... | <urn:uuid:f04f3223-ccf1-402e-8870-dd8c7c31d616> | 2.765625 | 879 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 77.408824 | 95,629,938 |
why do we need maths in our lives
Math is an important part of our lives because it is everywhere, and understanding mathematical concepts and being able to calculate mathematical problems can help you in a variety of ways. For example, say you want to have the latest Shopkins or Lego^ set. If you earn allowance for do... | <urn:uuid:ee1187ff-ebd4-4aec-94d5-cb2ce1694ed7> | 2.90625 | 1,236 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 61.298991 | 95,629,951 |
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Auroral Rocket in Norway
This page contains archived content and is no longer being updated. At the time of publication, it represented the best available science. However, more recent observations and st... | <urn:uuid:902a76fe-aaac-4c41-9fd8-a37820e78b4b> | 3.59375 | 600 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 35.536828 | 95,629,966 |
The European Science Foundation's (ESF) European Collaborative Research (EUROCORES) programme EuroMARC is an essential tool to boost European leadership in the planning of international marine coring expeditions and the preparation of IODP (Intergrated Ocean Drilling Program) or IMAGES (International Marine Past Global... | <urn:uuid:5951df54-914b-49fa-9916-dcac421e00d5> | 3.125 | 2,125 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 34.867375 | 95,629,971 |
A single factor can reset the immune system of mice to a state likely similar to what it was 500 million years ago, when the first vertebrates emerged.
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (MPI-IE) in Freiburg re-activated expression of an ancient gene, which is not normally expressed... | <urn:uuid:4d56df48-0212-4f22-9736-2ea03062537f> | 3.421875 | 1,341 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.67854 | 95,629,992 |
Atmospheric Modelling and Prediction
This chapter is intended to provide the reader with an introduction to the development and application of models of the Earth’s atmospheric flow. It describes a range of past and present methods for solving the equations governing the behaviour of the Earth’s atmosphere. These equat... | <urn:uuid:571ffd8d-6913-4a0f-99af-49d0e9a9d261> | 3.328125 | 317 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 37.01503 | 95,630,011 |
Sten Ohlson has extensive experience of research into so-called transient biomolecular binding. Such binding is short-lived-the biomolecules touch each other for a brief moment only. Many of the processes in the human body-in a cell, for instance-occur with the aid of transient binding.
The discovery and understanding ... | <urn:uuid:443b6d2c-86ea-4eb6-b934-09c84c1020b4> | 2.515625 | 1,003 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 37.777923 | 95,630,030 |
Study Predicts Decades Of Global Cooling Ahead
A new study out of the United Kingdom predicts the Earth is about to go through a major climatic shift that could mean decades of cooler temperatures and fewer hurricanes hitting the United States.
Scientists at the University of Southampton predict that a cooling of the A... | <urn:uuid:276b3a60-f77e-473e-b815-b6fc71f687a3> | 3.375 | 900 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 40.675966 | 95,630,044 |
Sentinel-5P sealed from view
4 October 2017
As preparations for the launch of Sentinel-5P continue on track, the team at Russia’s Plesetsk site has bid farewell to the satellite as it was sealed from view in the Rockot fairing. Liftoff is set for 13 October at 09:27 GMT (11:27 CEST).
Since its arrival at the launch sit... | <urn:uuid:c4fcfdfb-e748-41e5-8009-a93e65be3ef5> | 2.53125 | 445 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 38.346934 | 95,630,056 |
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A 8 kg crate is placed at rest on an incline plane (s=0.8, k=0.5), whose angle is 60o. It then slides 3 m down the incline.
work done by gravity: ?J
work done by friction force: ?J
Using your results from part a, find the speed of the crate after sliding this distance.
The normal force on the plane fro... | <urn:uuid:f7c3499d-c8c5-4dad-92b7-2e6054b2d09c> | 3.1875 | 158 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 81.808352 | 95,630,069 |
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Common loons, with their eerie calls, are icons of northern lakes. These long-bodied birds are impressive swimmers and divers. Unlike the majority of bird species, common loons have solid bones, which makes them less buoyant and more effective at maneuvering through water. Their legs are set far back... | <urn:uuid:6626b36a-3174-4972-a33b-076a2786c531> | 3.671875 | 922 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 50.407011 | 95,630,086 |
It could be because they display a horizontal diurnal migration
pattern like some hydro- and scyphomedusae (Hamner and Hauri, 1981; Arkett, 1989; Hamner et al.
The fish, in their turn, carried out the opposite diurnal migration
, feeding in the surface layers in the mornings and moving to intermediate depths later in t... | <urn:uuid:c908bf55-030e-484d-9223-b25060176faa> | 2.984375 | 133 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 38.715179 | 95,630,088 |
By Jürgen Jost
The major goal of this ebook is to explain and enhance the conceptual, structural and summary considering arithmetic. particular mathematical constructions are used to demonstrate the conceptual process; offering a deeper perception into mutual relationships and summary universal gains. those rules are c... | <urn:uuid:a1aa578c-295a-49a3-9f87-66feddaac68c> | 2.859375 | 609 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 11.985264 | 95,630,096 |
The term ‘chaos’ is used in reference to unstable, aperiodic motion in dynamical systems and also to the state of a system which exhibits such motion. Almost any nonequilibrium open system will, when some bifurcation parameter characterizing the system is made sufficiently large, display chaotic behavior. It can be sai... | <urn:uuid:e95dbeb2-5c3b-4c55-a0cd-aeaab7745eab> | 2.78125 | 488 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 49.170817 | 95,630,098 |
On Monday evening the Climate Engineering Conference (CEC17) was opened in Berlin by Mark Lawrence, Scientific Director at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS). The international conference explores the potentials and risks of possible measures to intervene in the climate system. Over four days, exp... | <urn:uuid:276de3be-13ab-4b5e-9fef-583b0ed4c9c3> | 2.8125 | 2,267 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 24.932614 | 95,630,100 |
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Robert W. Thompson
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Many parts of the world are facing water crises due to the lack of clean drinking water. Growing industrialization in many areas and extensive use of chemicals for various concerns has increased the burden of deleterious contaminants in drinking water especia... | <urn:uuid:56354e99-97c5-4a7d-ab5e-d7db7246f983> | 2.59375 | 635 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 19.485362 | 95,630,112 |
While many social insects have distinct social classes that differ in appearance and are fixed from birth, paper wasp society is more fluid — all castes look alike, and any female can climb the social ladder and become a queen. Now, molecular analysis reveals that paper wasp social hierarchy is less flexible than it ap... | <urn:uuid:a961be2e-84f2-43ba-9598-ee20ca622125> | 3.3125 | 1,457 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 42.629117 | 95,630,122 |
Saturn’s moon Titan may be nearly a billion miles away from Earth, but a recently published paper based on data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveals a new way this distant world and our own are eerily similar. Just as the surface of oceans on Earth lies at an average elevation that we call “sea level,” Titan’s seas a... | <urn:uuid:d2e0537b-82bb-4d98-bff7-934fe3dde568> | 3.796875 | 536 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 45.307982 | 95,630,134 |
A research team from the University of the Basque Country have analysed the substances that are triggered in plants to protect themselves, with the goal of choosing the species that is best suited to the environment during reforestation under adverse environmental conditions.
Droughts, extreme temperatures, contaminati... | <urn:uuid:3aa2dcaa-95aa-4f62-a457-32cd9b8a559d> | 3.671875 | 1,605 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 36.693619 | 95,630,147 |
In these girth-conscious times, even weight itself has weight issues. The kilogram is getting lighter, scientists say, sowing potential confusion over a range of scientific endeavor.
The kilogram is defined by a platinum-iridium cylinder, cast in England in 1889. No one knows why it is shedding weight, at least in comp... | <urn:uuid:aa4b1389-7c23-4851-9b29-89f428fd266a> | 3.078125 | 1,681 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 45.270243 | 95,630,148 |
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Ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B) has profound effects on plant growth and development, and exposure varies with ozone depletion across geographic regions with ecosystem and agricultural consequences. This book deals with large-scale impacts and how UV-B affects plants at the molecular level. The UV-B phot... | <urn:uuid:29923e19-df64-4be9-a952-305f39da92ec> | 3.1875 | 172 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 38.799652 | 95,630,149 |
The X Prize's New Frontier: Genomics
The $10-million prize could spur the advent of cheaper, faster DNA sequencing and personalized medicine.
A new race in human genome sequencing was launched yesterday–this time to see who can sequence genomes the fastest. The X Prize Foundation has just announced a $10-million award ... | <urn:uuid:4e8ace40-dcb6-4305-a779-5092922256a0> | 2.734375 | 885 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 36.649828 | 95,630,150 |
|Paradigm||multi-paradigm: functional, imperative|
|Typing discipline||strong, static, inferred|
|MLKit, MLton, MLWorks, Moscow ML, Poly/ML, SML/NJ, MLj, SML.NET|
|Alice, Concurrent ML, Dependent ML|
Standard ML (SML) is a general-purpose, modular, functional programming language with compile-time type checking and typ... | <urn:uuid:0380bfd6-ae2c-4a45-acb0-a17b15ded07f> | 2.984375 | 6,893 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 58.733362 | 95,630,156 |
The experiment, outlined in a new paper,* would not only mean more accurate identifications of elements in everything from stars to environmental pollutants but also could put the modern theory of the atom to the most stringent tests yet.
The physicists’ quarry is the Rydberg constant, the quantity that specifies the p... | <urn:uuid:2ed59535-55bc-4fe4-a833-5a0a8f82dfbc> | 4.125 | 1,162 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 40.493297 | 95,630,158 |
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A synthesis of current knowledge of the growth, development and functioning of plant canopies.
Discussion of the meaning of canopy structure, interception of solar radiation, exchange processes, nitrogen nutrition, leaf demography, heliotropism, canopy architecture and modelling processes. Covers a wide... | <urn:uuid:7d7e1708-710f-4b52-9226-48fe4e8570b2> | 2.546875 | 243 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 37.292274 | 95,630,159 |
The LiteBIRD Satellite Mission: Sub-Kelvin Instrument
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Inflation is the leading theory of the first instant of the universe. Inflation, which postulates that the universe underwent a period of rapid expansion an instant after its birth, provides convincing explanation for cosmological observations. Recen... | <urn:uuid:92c9668f-8ae6-4a83-a849-ec001165871c> | 2.65625 | 2,262 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 89.493886 | 95,630,171 |
In this program we are going to tell you how you can write a simple "Hello World" word in a pdf, rtf and html file irrespective of the fact whether it exists or not.
To make a program over this, firstly we need to import some packages. Remember to make this program the first and foremost thing to remember is to place t... | <urn:uuid:8bd32f96-8001-4854-b151-04d6ce71e963> | 3.3125 | 557 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 66.052654 | 95,630,176 |
The state in which the element is stable
at a chosen standard-state pressure and for a given temperature.
PAC, 1982, 54, 1239
(Notation for states and processes, significance of the word standard in chemical
thermodynamics, and remarks on commonly tabulated forms of thermodynamic functions)
on page 1249
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16°C / 61°F
The measurements for the water temperature in Førde, Sogn og Fjordane are provided by the daily satellite readings provided by the NOAA. The temperatures given are the sea surface temperature (SST) which is most relevant to recreational users.
The graph below shows the range of monthly Førde water temperatu... | <urn:uuid:37e656ce-6527-4bb1-9d9f-d35e38baa6a8> | 2.59375 | 156 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 26.746183 | 95,630,234 |
Fig. 3 is showing the Jablonski diagram (Jablonski, 1933), a schematic of the transition of electronic state of a molecule during the fluorescence phenomenon. The left axis shows increasing energy, where a typical fluorescent molecule has an absorbance spectrum. This spectrum shows the energy or wavelengths, where the ... | <urn:uuid:4ebb6bdb-7d7b-41c3-a452-b0af1083e3f1> | 3.625 | 1,007 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 22.345106 | 95,630,238 |
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Toxicity of Copper to Mercenaria mercenaria (Hard Clam)
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Toxicity of copper to larval Mercenaria mercenaria was evaluated with static non-renewal and continuous renewa... | <urn:uuid:b94466a5-cab7-49e5-9693-f4f320174823> | 2.6875 | 497 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 31.628081 | 95,630,243 |
Astronomers discover ‘emerald-cut’ galaxy
An international team of astronomers has discovered a rare square galaxy with a striking resemblance to an emerald cut diamond.
The astronomers – from Australia, Germany, Switzerland and Finland – discovered the rectangular‑shaped galaxy within a group of 250 galaxies some 70 m... | <urn:uuid:5869a6d2-f9e3-4df5-8216-fd036e482e34> | 3.359375 | 681 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 32.620227 | 95,630,255 |
Theory of Special Relativity
by Nadia L. Zakamska
Publisher: arXiv 2015
Number of pages: 98
The main purpose of these notes is to introduce 4-vectors and the matrix notation and to demonstrate their use in solving standard problems in Special Relativity. The pre-requisites for the class are calculus-based Classical Mec... | <urn:uuid:bc2e46ba-172f-45f1-bd18-771febac409e> | 3.203125 | 351 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 19.669352 | 95,630,266 |
why do we need carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
Carbon dioxide is a colorless and non-flammable gas at normal temperature and pressure. Although
than nitrogen and oxygen in, carbon dioxide is an important constituent of our planet's air. A molecule of carbon dioxide (CO ) is made up of one carbon atom and two oxygen at... | <urn:uuid:7739cd3d-f5e4-4cb4-9ceb-4575c5f829ae> | 3.75 | 1,041 | Spam / Ads | Science & Tech. | 35.998354 | 95,630,316 |
In celebration of this International Year of Astronomy, NASA is releasing images of the galactic center region as seen by its Great Observatories to more than 150 planetariums, museums, nature centers, libraries, and schools across the country.
The sites will unveil a giant, 6-foot-by-3-foot print of the bustling hub o... | <urn:uuid:1236cc9b-d4fd-4b1f-b952-dd800fae3c45> | 3.828125 | 1,198 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.165803 | 95,630,338 |
While you can’t set your watch to El Niño or La Niña because it occurs irregularly and sometimes with little warning, when one does emerge it is strongly linked to the calendar month. Typically, events peak during the Northern Hemisphere winter and then weaken or disappear during the spring or summer. In part because E... | <urn:uuid:5cfd755d-3b3b-41aa-ad7d-71426ed8a41e> | 3.296875 | 2,252 | Nonfiction Writing | Science & Tech. | 46.070068 | 95,630,348 |
posted by John Berkhamp
The "random" numbers produced by computers aren't purely random. They are actually pseudo-random, meaning that they are produced by mathematical formulas that simulate randomness.The linear congruential generator takes a seed X0 and generates subsequent pseudo-random numbers using the formula:
X... | <urn:uuid:4beadd65-7dc7-4c3c-9cea-29d3a9f6f420> | 3.46875 | 146 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 58.175564 | 95,630,357 |
Join Barron Stone for an in-depth discussion in this video Solution overview, part of Code Clinic: Python (2014).
In this video, I'll give you a high-level overview of my solution to the Code Clinic challenge of retrieving and analyzing weather statistics from Lake Pend Oreille. I'll describe the approach I took to com... | <urn:uuid:7762310a-ba52-47a2-9e21-28dd00790c7d> | 2.78125 | 1,219 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 49.632898 | 95,630,386 |
Tigers can no more change their stripes than leopards can change their spots. That’s a good thing too, for their unchanging patterns, as individually distinct as a human fingerprint, make it easier to track any single tiger over time.
That process is about to become even simpler with a computer programme that creates a... | <urn:uuid:1ce230b6-979b-48ed-8e27-c1164d221bba> | 3.3125 | 898 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 43.871646 | 95,630,387 |
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Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano has been erupting since May 3, and according to the county of Hawaii's civil defense agency, another small explosion occurred on Sunday morning.
The steam explosion spewed ash plumes over Ka'u, the southernmost district of the Big Island. The eruption happened 38 days after ... | <urn:uuid:8279a5b8-3c04-4b0b-974e-002f943619a3> | 2.9375 | 1,070 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 47.412224 | 95,630,396 |
Methanogens sustain life under extremes of heat and cold
New research suggests that methanogens — among the simplest and oldest organisms on Earth — could survive on Mars.
Methanogens, microorganisms in the domain Archaea, use hydrogen as their energy source and carbon dioxide as their carbon source, to metabolize and ... | <urn:uuid:a18732c1-63c0-45a8-82bc-579a68c91d77> | 4.125 | 1,395 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 33.091596 | 95,630,398 |
MPQ scientists develop new methods to test the world view of macroscopic realism
In a classical world, objects have pre-existing properties, physical influences are local and cannot travel faster than the speed of light, and it is in principle possible to measure the properties of macroscopic systems without altering t... | <urn:uuid:d7ac0ac4-21a1-40ab-be54-3f7eaa3d7bc8> | 3.078125 | 2,243 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 35.266999 | 95,630,447 |
Space physics from University of Helsinki gets its first-ever International Space Science Institute team
Lucile Turc to work on mystery waves that transmit in the near-Earth space.
For the very first time space physics at University of Helsinki gets an International Space Science Institute (ISSI) team. It is Marie Curi... | <urn:uuid:9a01b0be-a8ad-44d1-a315-b65d44092d2c> | 2.90625 | 1,323 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 36.662217 | 95,630,452 |
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By: RE Kohler
344 pages, 35 b/w photos, 9 line illus, 3 tabs
The common fruit fly, Drosophila, has become a standard laboratory animal; many modern genetic findings are based on research on Drosophila. This book examines the use of this insect, and the culture and customs of those who study it.
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Impact of 10–60-Day Low-Frequency Steering Flows on Straight Northward-Moving Typhoon Tracks over the Western North Pacific
This study investigates the impact of low-frequency (intraseasonal and interannual) steering flows on straight northward-moving (defined as a meridional displacement two times greater than the zon... | <urn:uuid:cdde9e60-8773-45f4-bb54-f358fb2eddd8> | 2.515625 | 1,457 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 84.332991 | 95,630,491 |
Eruptions, Earthquakes & Emissions
The Smithsonian's "Eruptions, Earthquakes, & Emissions" web application (or "E3") is a time-lapse animation of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes since 1960. It also shows volcanic gas emissions (sulfur dioxide, SO2) since 1978 — the first year satellites were available to provide glo... | <urn:uuid:59acfa35-0b8d-455f-84af-e050035c8c94> | 3.65625 | 2,034 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 40.881415 | 95,630,492 |
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The evolutionary history of effectors downstream of Cdc42 and Rac
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Cdc42 and Rac - ancient, highly conserved, small GTPases - mediate extracellular signals, triggering changes in transcription and in the actin cytoskeleton. Although dozens of proteins ac... | <urn:uuid:cb877bc7-e6fe-4a70-b848-0b2d3afc90dd> | 2.71875 | 8,465 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 53.587837 | 95,630,503 |
For nearly 200 years, scientists have known that the elements molybdenum and oxygen can form various large molecules, which usually impart a unique blue color to aqueous solutions. Only recently have scientists been able to isolate these molecules, but no one was able to explain their supramolecular structure in soluti... | <urn:uuid:71458312-a385-498f-83c2-52290320f150> | 3.859375 | 984 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 33.056381 | 95,630,527 |
As the consequences of climate change strike across the United States, ecologists have a guiding principle about how they think plants will respond. Cold-adapted plants will survive if they move “up”—that is, as they move further north (away from the tropics) and higher in elevation (away from the warm ground).
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43 genes support the lungfish-coelacanth grouping related to the closest living relative of tetrapods with the Bayesian method under the coalescence model
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Published: 7 March 2011
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Emperor PenguinLatin name: Aptenodytes Forsteri,
Conservsation status: near threatened (population is stable)
The Emperor is the largest of all penguins, standing as tall as four feet. Males withstand the Antarctic weather for up to two months without eating—keeping the eggs warm in a feathered pouch on their feet. Fem... | <urn:uuid:5f339354-d3d3-4170-b71d-24242b35070b> | 4.1875 | 640 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 36.795789 | 95,630,613 |
Earth science is just that, the study of the Earth. Thorough understanding of the surface expression of textbook concepts helps geoscientists provide protection and valuable resources to society.
Thousands of U.S. college students participate in field camps each year, staying in accommodations varying from lodges with ... | <urn:uuid:44dbb7ff-71c0-4403-bd78-493588d21388> | 3.625 | 1,056 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.249629 | 95,630,620 |
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According to many scientists, the current destruction and extinction of numerous species will eventually lead to irreversible changes in the Earth's ecosystem. This volume is a critical evaluation of the politics of biological diversity in the USA and of state and federal policies on endange... | <urn:uuid:5e0c9d39-00f2-453f-854a-d2fc05477098> | 3.078125 | 260 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 21.590488 | 95,630,633 |
As we move toward green energy, we have a lot to consider when it comes to what kind of approach we pursue. For example, if we focus on wind turbines, much of our land would become increasingly cluttered with the turbines themselves. This has led to the research and development of offshore wind farms, which have the po... | <urn:uuid:cc3f1aea-d456-491a-8263-4c24686a372e> | 3.875 | 795 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 55.364861 | 95,630,683 |
New research by biologists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine has now identified one way the body does exactly that. This protective role is fulfilled in part by a class of small RNA molecules called pachytene piwi-interacting RNAs, or piRNAs.
Without them, germ-cell development in males co... | <urn:uuid:f39171e7-be46-42df-bd3f-9e6edb66e442> | 3.46875 | 1,614 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 36.646078 | 95,630,684 |
On Friday the 30th, during the XLII international winter meeting on nuclear physics at Bormio, the first results will be announced of Finuda experiment (Nuclear Physics at Daphne), settled in Frascati at Infn National Laboratories.
Planned and made operating by a group of about forty physicists from Universities and In... | <urn:uuid:51f625dc-033a-4166-a535-023e6997faff> | 2.890625 | 831 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 34.440773 | 95,630,696 |
"Making these measurements possible is the platform on which the instruments are flying," said Paul Newman, the deputy principal investigator of NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3), managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. HS3 will use NASA's unmanned Global Hawks, which are capable ... | <urn:uuid:32203534-9850-4099-85de-9457b881b04f> | 3.21875 | 2,060 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.85414 | 95,630,712 |
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During the period 1970-2000, substantial efforts were made to document the distribution and number of Trumpeter Swans (Cygnus buccinator) in western Canada. Breeding surveys have expanded from covering less than 20,000 km2 in the Grande Prairie region of Alberta to c... | <urn:uuid:40136841-8046-4888-b33c-0cd1fe7caaeb> | 2.9375 | 1,132 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 20.619093 | 95,630,725 |
There's no debating evolution, but a debate remains among biologists over how it actually works. Is evolution deterministic in that its outcomes could not have been otherwise, or is it more random? Harvard biologist Jonathan Losos defends the view that evolution is not deterministic, that takes many different pathways ... | <urn:uuid:9952a420-dc16-4e87-af3f-92b3d698ab90> | 3.1875 | 174 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 38.133694 | 95,630,729 |
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Thunderstorms and rain engulf central and southern Europe
Thunderstorm over Berlin
Rain and thunderstorms have hit Europe in full force this spring. May was wetter than average across much of southern Europe. In France, Italy and Greece these conditions damaged agricultural crops.
In Europe as a whole, May... | <urn:uuid:c228b339-d9ce-4901-87cc-c4570fe71ad2> | 3.328125 | 912 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 37.214109 | 95,630,740 |
Taking the pulse of Mars via dating of a plume-fed volcano
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Mars hosts the solar system's largest volcanoes. Although their size and impact crater density indicate continued activity over billions of years, their formation rates are poorly understood. Here we quantify the growth rate of a M... | <urn:uuid:6f8adf13-37aa-4269-bb57-f0813aefe0a4> | 2.859375 | 640 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 58.425 | 95,630,743 |
According to reports, the satellite, which is aimed at finding far-away planets that could potentially support life, will be launched at 6:32 pm US Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
NASA's newest planet-hunting spacecraft will have to wait another couple of days before lifting off.
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Seeing Cell to Cell Differences
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Every cell in the body has two genomes, one from the mother and one from the father. Until now, researchers have lacked the tools to examine -- in a single cell --the exact readout from each genome to make RNA. Using a new technology that allows researchers to do just t... | <urn:uuid:21330bed-8375-42d7-a239-e493000bf7fa> | 3.484375 | 1,633 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 32.885712 | 95,630,778 |
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Academy Award-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio called on his massive Twitter following this week to help bring attention to and help conserve the most endangered marine mammal in the world.
The star’s plea prompted a response from the Mexican president and forcing the mammal to trend on the social platform.
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shows that the HKH remains energy-poor, with more than 80% of rural households still reliant on traditional solid biomass fuel for cooking and heating. This is causing enormous damage to the environment, triggering widespread harm to human
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1. a is directly proportional to b.If a=15,then b=9
2. m varies directly as n.If n=2/3,then m=1/4
3. T varies as the square root of L. If L=81,then T=10
4.r varies directly as the square of t. If t=16,then r=6.
5. y varies as the cube foot of x. If x=27,then y=2.
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CUED - Object-oriented programming Math Works Machine Translation The automated translation of this page is provided by a general purpose third party translator tool. Object-oriented programming with Matlab Why? Object-oriented programming is a popular mode of working and is supported by Java,
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doi:10.1038/nindia.2018.78 Published online 25 June 2018
Air pollution from crop stubble burning in some northern states of India – an environmental menace that makes headlines every year – is not confined to the north. Scientists now have evidence from NASA’s satellite images and ground stations in India that the burn... | <urn:uuid:0198c456-0bad-4e1c-a09b-0807485295eb> | 3.859375 | 817 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 43.846837 | 95,630,846 |
Back draught: this beetle drinks the water its bumps collect.
Humans learn water-gathering trick from bumpy beetle.
A desert beetle turns fog into drinking water with its wings, new research reveals. Materials mimicking the insect could help humans survive harsh environments.
Southwest Africa’s Namib Desert is one of t... | <urn:uuid:8705f2a9-3a2c-47a5-953d-0172e4fd9e67> | 2.671875 | 752 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 43.465195 | 95,630,865 |
Paleontologists have documented how dramatic shifts in climate have led to dramatic shifts in evolution.
One such event, the Grande Coupure, was a wipeout of many European mammal species 33.9 million years ago when global temperatures and precipitation declined sharply. What has been puzzling is that during the same tr... | <urn:uuid:815262d1-757a-4fc2-9b62-639fba4af840> | 4.3125 | 1,356 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 34.941245 | 95,630,879 |
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the programming language used to create Web pages. The HTML code creates a layout for the text and graphic images that make up the document. Text can be formatted for paragraph layout and for font style with bold, italic, underline, color and various sizes. HTML also is used to creat... | <urn:uuid:8424a8e3-5740-4426-93c2-dd35a65afe50> | 4.5 | 913 | Knowledge Article | Software Dev. | 64.300014 | 95,630,887 |
A Binary Star is a pair of stars that orbit each other. Double Star means the same thing except that it also includes stars that are not orbiting and not close together but happen to be on the same line of sight from Earth, referred to as Apparent Binary stars.
Binary (or more) star systems are said to be common: the b... | <urn:uuid:aad489f4-4001-4b6d-89e3-c0704e192bc1> | 3.859375 | 567 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 44.826515 | 95,630,903 |
Estimating Prevalence of a Trait
When sampling units selected from a population and measurements indicate presence or absence of a trait, it is possible to either classify every sampling unit as positive/negative or estimate the prevalence of the trait. The former is desired when the interest is in identifying all samp... | <urn:uuid:454669ae-b6d8-4d45-9cfd-068795352c3c> | 2.828125 | 422 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 49.491196 | 95,630,912 |
Mouse Model May Also Aid In Discovery of Gene Function
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have bred a mouse to model human L1 retrotransposons, the so-called "jumping genes." Retrotransposons are small stretches of DNA that are copied from one location in the genome and inserted elsewhere,... | <urn:uuid:f44910eb-9d78-4d3b-9efe-0f0275d00ab3> | 3.0625 | 768 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 36.159344 | 95,630,915 |
Reading the fossil record, a paleontologist can peer into evolutionary history and see the surface features that plants and animals and, occasionally, microbes have left behind.
Now, scouring the genome of a Japanese yeast, scientists have found a trackway of fossil genes in the making, providing a rare look at how an ... | <urn:uuid:018f8f34-b581-4753-ba06-6be042c72f18> | 3.421875 | 792 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.149191 | 95,630,916 |
A Water Channel Network in Cell Membranes of the Filter Chamber of Homopteran Insects
Water is the most ubiquitous molecule in the living cell and movement of water across the cell membrane accompanies fundamental cell functions. All biological membranes exhibit some water permeability as a result of diffusion through ... | <urn:uuid:5f7a1279-b998-4a5b-bb41-44939d752fb2> | 3.09375 | 593 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 70.229901 | 95,630,930 |
Give It a Lift with a Lever
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|Material Availability||Readily available|
|Cost||Very Low (under $20)|
AbstractDid you know that you can lift an object that's heavier than you are? Just use a lever! In this science project you'll build a tabletop lever and measure how much effort it t... | <urn:uuid:73cc3ce2-0f3a-4185-b4bd-9c1efd37dd7d> | 4.125 | 3,141 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 64.676503 | 95,630,936 |
Pumps can be classified by their method of displacement into positive displacement pumps (trap fluid to increase pressure), impulse pumps (trap air to increase pressure), velocity pumps (move water mass to increase pressure), gravity pumps (weight of fluid; ala syphon / Heron's fountain), steam pumps (boil at bottom, d... | <urn:uuid:b6a44772-9d69-4d2a-9eff-5cf8ea59e270> | 3.28125 | 542 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 60.258081 | 95,630,955 |
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New research from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory indicates that climate change will cause atmospheric rivers to become increasingly longer and wider by the end of this century.
Graphic courtesy of NOAA.
Atmospheric rivers are long, and narrow (250-375 miles wide) jets of air that carry massive amo... | <urn:uuid:d62af62d-e23b-45fa-b2af-82b593af4463> | 3.859375 | 493 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 45.543634 | 95,630,962 |
The Solar Longitude (Abbrev: S.L., λ ☉) is 220 degrees, this value is the the date of maximum activity. It is measured as a degree with zero degree indicating spring equinox (roughly March 21st/22nd). 90 is the Summer Solstice, 180 is the Autumn Equinox and 270 is the Winter Solstice. This degree is independent of the ... | <urn:uuid:d40d1720-c734-45e6-a5ba-403a571d3a09> | 2.703125 | 284 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 64.065221 | 95,630,972 |
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Environmental impact of the energy industry
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The environmental impact of the energy industry is diverse. Energy has been ... | <urn:uuid:161214a0-1de0-4415-aa69-4c4174bbbca4> | 3.171875 | 3,721 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 43.662985 | 95,631,005 |
|Debugging with GDB|
You may want to specify executable and core dump file names. The usual way to do this is at start-up time, using the arguments to gdb's start-up commands (see Getting In and Out of gdb).
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It was not until years later that Bauer and his team were able to confirm that this object was a supernova. Clues from a spectrum obtained by ESO’s Very Large Telescope led the team to start the real detective work of searching through data from 18 different telescopes, both ground- and space-based, nearly all of which... | <urn:uuid:2990e910-82a0-4fd2-82d8-0767b86b9168> | 3.328125 | 1,205 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 46.143055 | 95,631,032 |
Decreasing WidthPro Problems > Math > Geometry > Rectangles and Squares
The area of a rectangle is 288 square inches. If the width is decreased by 20, the new area would be 168. What is the perimeter of the original rectangle?
SolutionIn order to make it feasible for teachers to use these problems in their classwork, n... | <urn:uuid:ef6dbe21-255c-4c19-a448-9307a0e02b12> | 3.53125 | 781 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 68.243358 | 95,631,034 |