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Mars attacked? Scientist suggests probes from Earth might have accidentally liquidated microscopic Martians
The public fascination with the possibility of life on our planetary neighbor Mars began when early telescopes spotted features fancifully interpreted as canals. It has spawned countless stories, books and films ... | <urn:uuid:a29ee802-7867-4853-8215-9a7df15eef02> | 3.140625 | 445 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 32.789021 | 95,639,453 |
Breakthrough discovery offers new perspectives for research on the immune and nervous system / Publication in Nature Methods
When it comes to analyzing cell components or body fluids or developing new medications, there is no way around mass spectrometry. Mass spectrometry is a highly sensitive method of measurement th... | <urn:uuid:1a040c13-42b4-4446-8a74-e3d218dc0532> | 3.015625 | 1,648 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 25.300199 | 95,639,454 |
For example, the humble and over-worked string literal is an object complete with methods and properties. For example:
displays 4. This almost seems against the laws of programming when you first see it but yes raw data in the form of a quoted string is an example of a string object and has the methods and properties o... | <urn:uuid:45ef96d9-75aa-413b-88b0-02b9666b049b> | 3.578125 | 366 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 68.288485 | 95,639,471 |
Skip to comments.Extra Dimensions Showing Hints Of Scientific Revolution
Posted on 02/19/2003 9:18:15 AM PST by RightWhale
Extra Dimensions Showing Hints Of Scientific Revolution
Chicago - Feb 19, 2003
The concept of extra dimensions, dismissed as nonsense even by one of its earliest proponents nearly nine decades ago,... | <urn:uuid:46a16753-6b70-4387-915a-ec141490b413> | 2.828125 | 1,026 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 36.474076 | 95,639,492 |
The new research finds that agriculture's environmental impacts vary depending on location even for producers of the same crops. This creates opportunities for targeted mitigation, making an immense problem more manageable.
The new council hopes to champion science globally and bring findings outside the laboratory to ... | <urn:uuid:474e785f-1c00-4d1f-b9fd-d9ce33fc17c3> | 2.859375 | 430 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 26.813286 | 95,639,517 |
Magnetic bacteria are found in a variety of aquatic environments, such as ponds and lakes. The strain of bacterium the research team studied, Magnetospirillum magneticum, was originally found in a pond in Tokyo, Japan. Magnetic bacteria typically live far below the surface, where oxygen is scarce. (They do not grow wel... | <urn:uuid:a8621475-b445-4183-aa2a-47998af07d6d> | 3.953125 | 1,274 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 40.809255 | 95,639,526 |
Researchers from the Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials in Troitsk, MIPT, MISiS, and MSU have developed anew method for the synthesis of an ultrahard material that exceeds diamond in hardness. An article recently published in the journal Carbon describes in detail a method that allows for ... | <urn:uuid:f078ff53-57ab-401d-a132-4c63975974fb> | 3.671875 | 1,690 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 45.789408 | 95,639,540 |
The Piscis Austrinids meteor shower takes place within the boundaries constellation of Piscis Austrinus. The meteor showers occurs between 15 Jul- 10 Aug with the peak occuring on the 28-Jul every year.
The Solar Longitude (Abbrev: S.L., λ ☉) is 136 degrees, this value is the the date of maximum activity. It is measure... | <urn:uuid:4c0dd436-a91c-40fc-9235-a67f7df56eac> | 3.140625 | 463 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 58.454804 | 95,639,564 |
Medicine Hat, Alberta, is branching out. The city has approved a proposal to install the country’s first concentrated solar power (CSP) project.
CSP typically employs an array of mirrors to reflect sunlight onto a single point, often at the top of a central tower. The concentrated light quickly becomes heat, which in t... | <urn:uuid:da4dfb60-437a-4d39-8b0e-adfc2f73ae48> | 3.375 | 1,205 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 40.768522 | 95,639,586 |
A NASA scientist explains why it’s only now worthwhile.
Between 1968 and 1972, 24 humans went and orbited the Moon. Of those Apollo astronauts, 12 of them stepped foot on the Moon. Since then, not a single human has ventured beyond low-Earth orbit. And for all the amazing work and research astronauts have done in the i... | <urn:uuid:595a8646-00ed-4902-89dc-191e9e9e2504> | 3.5625 | 772 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 54.406996 | 95,639,587 |
Tuples +, *, and slicing operations return new tuples.
To sort a tuple, convert it to a list to gain access to a sorting method call, or use the sorted built-in that accepts any sequence object.
T = ('cc', 'aa', 'dd', 'bb') tmp = list(T) # Make a list from a tuple's items tmp.sort() # Sort the list print( tmp ) T = tup... | <urn:uuid:967801ed-89e2-4df1-9c8f-71fb86a82360> | 3.625 | 169 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 88.75477 | 95,639,623 |
Positions, Motions and Distances of the Stars — Concepts and Methods
The bodies of the planetary system, including the interplanetary matter, can be investigated nowadays by direct measurements at the locality of the object by using space probes. Our knowledge of the structure of the universe beyond the limits of the s... | <urn:uuid:7d5c8fa5-015c-4eca-87f0-f7ac19cb94e1> | 3.09375 | 132 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 11.168626 | 95,639,627 |
MIT professor Kerry Emanuel, a climate scientist, calls man-made global warming “perhaps the most consequential problem ever confronted by mankind.” In this primer, Emanuel details the science underlying the causes and impact of global warming. He explains why warming is taking place and discusses options for mitigatin... | <urn:uuid:6d4d3ec8-05d6-4f6c-a848-42c7812ecfb2> | 3.140625 | 381 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 40.803247 | 95,639,644 |
According to ecological theory, populations whose dynamics are entrained by environmental correlation face increased extinction risk as environmental conditions become more synchronized spatially. This prediction is highly relevant to the study of ecological consequences of climate change. Recent empirical studies have... | <urn:uuid:9e72d006-c4ca-4c7e-97f6-d8c5750f9e10> | 2.9375 | 233 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 0.616118 | 95,639,656 |
Aronson’s research lands on the cover of the August 2017 issue! Urban vegetation provides important ecological services, but only certain plants can survive these harsh environments. Understanding how urban environments select for or against particular plant species would help in managing urban biodiversity, planning a... | <urn:uuid:8cb52e7f-ff90-4a02-a975-1f7df6bb7b19> | 2.734375 | 1,182 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 36.471572 | 95,639,687 |
One of Prolog's most powerful features is its built-in pattern-matching algorithm, unification. For all of the examples we have seen so far, unification has been relatively simple. We will now examine unification more closely.
The full definition of unification is similar to the one given in chapter 3, with the additio... | <urn:uuid:d1411810-0284-4c04-b383-61bfc7697d4a> | 4.03125 | 1,569 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 74.964659 | 95,639,696 |
A long slit of infinitesimal width which is illuminated by light diffracts the light into a series of circular waves and a wave front emerges from the slit in a cylindrical wave of uniform intensity. A slit which is wider than a wavelength produces interference effects in the space downstream of the slit. The slit is a... | <urn:uuid:f5b3c5e9-34f9-4bfe-9660-c876d34d25f7> | 4.03125 | 345 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 49.043243 | 95,639,700 |
IT'S often said there are plenty more fish in the sea - now a massive global census of marine life proves it's true.
Scientists conducting the most comprehensive census ever of the world's sea life estimate there are more than 230,000 known species in the sea, and somewhere between four and six times that figure that a... | <urn:uuid:1888d3fe-04ae-4a80-bf3c-b9dc4ae59f5e> | 3.328125 | 442 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 50.609316 | 95,639,718 |
Scientists came to the conclusion that the perpetrators of the first on earth, global warming became the ancient relatives of earthworms, ate all the stocks of organic matter at the bottom of the first earth’s oceans.
“At the bottom of the ocean there are many animals that are constantly “plow” him like rain worms you ... | <urn:uuid:73a74af8-3825-44c6-b0c5-58f8090c2c9e> | 3.015625 | 199 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 39.803295 | 95,639,731 |
We illustrate the fundamental importance of fluctuations in natural water flows to the long-term sustainability and productivity of riverine ecosystems and their riparian areas. Natural flows are characterized by temporal and spatial heterogeneity in the magnitude, frequency, duration, timing, rate of change, and predi... | <urn:uuid:99961aca-15b5-4848-8fa9-02a78f327a9a> | 3.53125 | 262 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | -11.31 | 95,639,735 |
Each wolf calls with its own ‘voice.’
Tracking wild animals can provide lots of valuable data. New research suggests audio recordings of wild wolves can replace the typical radio collars, which can be expensive and intrusive.
The universal sign for ‘Look over there!’ isn’t so common in some cultures.
It was long though... | <urn:uuid:c9cd75b3-e6e4-45f7-8f9c-37a66f6e6b99> | 2.859375 | 936 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 46.3703 | 95,639,763 |
Basic Math Quick Reference Handbook
by Peter J. Mitas
Publisher: Quick Reference Handbooks 2009
Number of pages: 83
This handbook, written by an experienced math teacher, lets readers quickly look up definitions, facts, and problem solving steps. It includes over 700 detailed examples and tips to help them improve thei... | <urn:uuid:5ddda9f0-1797-4aa2-8121-6e77f0480dab> | 3.4375 | 297 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 22.815903 | 95,639,776 |
- Open Access
With respect to coefficient of linear thermal expansion, bacterial vegetative cells and spores resemble plastics and metals, respectively
© Nakanishi et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2013
Received: 13 August 2013
Accepted: 2 October 2013
Published: 9 October 2013
If a fixed stress is applied to the th... | <urn:uuid:1e88d21b-5895-4edf-ab44-b4e1c900035b> | 2.75 | 2,271 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 51.042468 | 95,639,794 |
Дата публикации: 2018-05-27 18:30
Insights on this page were contributed by David W. Thomson of the Quantum AetherDynamics Institute and are explored in more depth at his page at http:///.
67 Mar 7569 - The BICEP7 experiment has announced a detection of a primordial polarization signal from the inflationary epoch.
Coul... | <urn:uuid:8be34e84-6152-42d7-bd3c-e9d195dcd756> | 2.734375 | 829 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 30.255141 | 95,639,817 |
GNU.WIKI: The GNU/Linux Knowledge Base
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vref — increment the use count for a vnode
vref(... | <urn:uuid:6577c845-54e8-40db-b23b-35609c5b4efb> | 2.609375 | 403 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 88.606226 | 95,639,819 |
Uses simple supplies to effectively demonstrate convection currents for middle school students.
Supports NGSS MS-ESS2-1 and MS-ESS2-2.
This lab is very effective as either a student investigation or a teacher demonstration. The supplies are simple - hot and cold tap water, large beaker, small cup, rubber band, food col... | <urn:uuid:cdff6bcb-0ca5-4153-a2df-08ccb5786662> | 4.09375 | 376 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 48.248235 | 95,639,834 |
“Template:Ambox/core Template:WiktionaryparTemplate:Two other uses In geometry, a pentagon is any...Pentagon
“In geometry, a nonagon (or enneagon) is a nine-sided polygon. The name "nonagon" is a hybrid...Nonagon
“In geometry, a hexagon is a polygon with six edges and six vertices. A regular hexagon has...Hexagon
“Scal... | <urn:uuid:36960fcd-a3c7-4a50-a03f-dfa05d05e1a3> | 2.546875 | 161 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 36.415573 | 95,639,837 |
Whilst experimenting with nanospheres and perfluorodecalin, a liquid used in the production of synthetic blood, researchers at Germanys University of Ulm have stumbled across a phenomenon that could ultimately help remove ozone-harming chemicals from the atmosphere. The perfluorodecalin, against all expectations, was t... | <urn:uuid:567b0c08-a8c2-4e3e-8a32-6aff246c8f09> | 3.515625 | 956 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 31.984714 | 95,639,844 |
The fly is one of a dozen species of Drosophila to have recently had their genomes sequenced, information that should provide abundant opportunities for identifying genetic changes that cause females of this species, and not others, to retain their fertilized eggs until they are ready to hatch.
The result was so surpri... | <urn:uuid:5eb67385-739a-402a-b9ee-fdc4fd8301ce> | 3.859375 | 1,274 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 43.591477 | 95,639,845 |
Machine learning has returned with a vengeance. I still remember the dark days of the late ’80s and ’90s, when it was pretty clear that the current generation of machine-learning algorithms didn’t seem to actually learn much of anything. Then big data arrived, computers became
It seems that quantum machine learning mig... | <urn:uuid:4e591dfc-eeae-4e1b-8eaf-f076fd639034> | 2.671875 | 718 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 39.894981 | 95,639,850 |
Manual Reference Pages - ENCODING (n)
encoding - Manipulate encodings
encoding option ?arg arg ...?
Strings in Tcl are encoded using 16-bit Unicode characters. Different
operating system interfaces or applications may generate strings in
other encodings such as Shift-JIS. The encoding command helps
to bridge the gap be... | <urn:uuid:2942526e-fe16-4d8f-a4a0-b8db13569bb3> | 3.25 | 733 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 46.032213 | 95,639,862 |
A water wave is called a deep-water wave if the water's depth is more than 1/4 of the wavelength. The speed of a deep water wave depends on its wavelength:
v = sqrt((g.lambda)/2pi).
Longer wavelengths travel faster. Let's apply to this to a standing wave. Consider a diving pool that is 5.0 m deep and 10.0 m wide. Stand... | <urn:uuid:db30e62b-b23d-4d11-b7f1-b98044e33cbb> | 4.0625 | 270 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 83.468359 | 95,639,865 |
List of impact craters on Earth
This article appears to contradict itself on the sizes of craters.(January 2018)
This list of impact craters on Earth contains a selection of the 190 confirmed craters given in the Earth Impact Database. To keep the lists manageable, only the largest craters within a time period are incl... | <urn:uuid:f42770ed-6508-4e61-a1c4-e76e2c19d76b> | 3.75 | 2,872 | Structured Data | Science & Tech. | 57.862272 | 95,639,898 |
A Relativist's Toolkit
The Mathematics of Black-hole MechanicseBook - 2004
This textbook fills a gap in the existing literature on general relativity by providing the advanced student with practical tools for the computation of many physically interesting quantities. The context is provided by the mathematical theory o... | <urn:uuid:30e401d1-1379-4580-a463-5c06a6277e68> | 2.875 | 174 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 8.617355 | 95,639,901 |
angular-openlayers is a set of AngularJS directives for openlayers3.
Unlike alternatives (angular-openlayers-directive, ngeo, etc), angular-openlayers is a very thin abstraction layer on top of OpenLayers3, meaning that angular-openlayers directives have the same attributes as the underlying OpenLayers objects. It mean... | <urn:uuid:22a4556b-c918-49c6-ad07-752d7cfcf75c> | 2.6875 | 168 | Product Page | Software Dev. | 20.477129 | 95,639,912 |
Cloning methods rely on molecular biological processes that occur in nature. The techniques are continually being refined and simplified; therefore, many strategies nowadays permit cloning of sequences of interest from their sources more efficiently. These cloning strategies include:
PCR cloning is a method in which do... | <urn:uuid:e4f3f0d7-794e-4f20-8a1e-07f27fc096a3> | 3.796875 | 3,365 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 27.535185 | 95,639,951 |
Hurricane - A Natural Disaster
A hurricane is a huge storm. Hurricanes rotate in a counter-clockwise direction around an "eye." The center of the storm or "eye" is the calmest part.
When it occurs?
Hurricanes are usually accompanied by electrical storms and typically occur during summer and early autumn.
In a day a hur... | <urn:uuid:1b170528-7d33-4ca2-87b9-8ab3ad6c78a0> | 3.359375 | 234 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 55.853359 | 95,639,964 |
The tiny single-celled ‘diatom’, which first evolved hundreds of millions of years ago, has a hard silica shell which is iridescent – in other words, the shell displays vivid colours that change depending on the angle at which it is observed. This effect is caused by a complex network of tiny holes in the shell which i... | <urn:uuid:7a35c11e-43ee-40ef-bd1d-d583ea26a0f1> | 4.0625 | 1,340 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 33.261406 | 95,639,971 |
Authors: George Rajna
Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have brought the worlds of physics and finance one step closer to each other. Such chirping signals a loss of heat that can slow fusion reactions, a loss that has long puzzled scientists. Physicists from the Institute of Applied Physics o... | <urn:uuid:a0cdd32d-4dcc-4377-a20c-c10c2382c5bd> | 2.65625 | 285 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 38.040017 | 95,640,003 |
Humans Have Drastic Effect On Sediment Transfer To World's Coasts, According To CU-Boulder Study
April 14, 2005
Note to Editors: Contents embargoed until 2 p.m. EST April 14.
A new analysis of data from more than 4,000 rivers around the world indicates humans are having profound and conflicting effects on the amount of... | <urn:uuid:44ac2304-219d-4d43-92e0-70d6a5fdcb72> | 3.734375 | 992 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 43.807359 | 95,640,007 |
Report the coordinates of the patches at the given
distances of the
turtles in the direction of their headings.
patchAhead(world, turtles, dist, torus = FALSE) # S4 method for worldNLR,agentMatrix,numeric patchAhead(world, turtles, dist, torus = FALSE)
WorldMatrix or worldArray object.
AgentMatrix object representing t... | <urn:uuid:30b5c095-612e-4e1a-854e-f85318391dc1> | 2.71875 | 415 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 71.334502 | 95,640,019 |
Experimental NASA research models based on NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory show that the CME was not Earth-directed and it left the sun at around 570 miles per second.
On July 1, 2013, the sun erupted with a coronal mass ejection, or CME – shown here as the lighter-colored gas moving off to the left -- w... | <urn:uuid:6b81d815-f257-43be-9ed1-8362fb270673> | 3.265625 | 909 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 39.791987 | 95,640,070 |
Here is a link to Dr. Sandy Ganzell’s previous FOM mid-term: here it is
Enjoy and good studying!
By the start of class on Friday, September 25th, you should post on your blogs an attempt at proving the following:
I should also point out that the definition of even is this: an integer is even if there exists such that .... | <urn:uuid:294279fb-f4e5-44ae-bd3e-29c6784031a2> | 3.109375 | 3,341 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 60.13947 | 95,640,096 |
Vindeln station in northern Sweden reported a similar story with measurements showing a reading of 437 dobson units, 11 more units than Norrköping and a record there since the first measurements were taken in 1991.
The ”Dobson unit” or DU, named after the British scientist G.M.B. Dobson, indicates how much ozone there ... | <urn:uuid:1ce47208-669d-4ceb-b8c4-9adfc885779c> | 4.0625 | 384 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 55.078518 | 95,640,100 |
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637 pages, Bw photos, figs, tabs, maps
Although the last ice age ended about then 10,000 years ago, its effect are still influencing human activities today - for example: coastal engineering, siting of nuclear waste depositories, intraplate earthquake mitigation, inaccuracy of a gl... | <urn:uuid:84890834-9f0d-4590-b0a0-bca4f9746093> | 2.953125 | 310 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 20.532 | 95,640,105 |
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This volume deals with the Superfamily Empidoidea as defined by Chavla (1983), which total 673 British species in the latest Diptera check list (Chandler 1998a), now increased to 677 species (as of March 2003; Stubbs (2003)). The Empidoidea comprise five families (Atelestidae, Dolichopodidae, Empididae,... | <urn:uuid:0eb3f792-df61-420b-9db0-137b5596d595> | 2.734375 | 612 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 39.049924 | 95,640,132 |
5 Species You Might Have Mistakenly Thought Were California Natives | KCET
5 Species You Might Have Mistakenly Thought Were California Natives
Some of the animal species we introduced, on purpose or by accident, have made themselves right at home in our cities and our wildlands. Some have seemed to fit in without causi... | <urn:uuid:98625954-432c-4de8-9c68-c5777cc40b08> | 3.15625 | 1,306 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 37.185802 | 95,640,148 |
This book covers the more basic aspects of carbonate minerals and their interaction with aqueous solutions; modern marine carbonate formation and sediments; carbonate diagenesis (early marine, meteoric and burial); the global cycle of carbon and human intervention; and the role of sedimentary carbonates as indicators o... | <urn:uuid:ef54d722-e5f7-40be-9322-593c5c48b4d3> | 2.875 | 384 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 17.53125 | 95,640,149 |
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POLITICALLY INCORRECT UTAH DINOSAURS! :)
Ray Stanford <email@example.com> wrote
Could it be that the animal (if it was a carnivore) was dragging its
prey in between its legs - as large cats do quite often. That would... | <urn:uuid:8d3604e6-9d31-4c65-b656-e9366dbef06f> | 3.078125 | 321 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 62.838692 | 95,640,151 |
Selective Sample Preparation Techniques for Trace Analysis
The isolation and determination of very small quantities of materials in complex mixtures is a major problem for analytical chemists in many fields. Historically [cf. R.P. Maickel, #A-1 -Ed.], solvent extraction has been the principal technique used for sample ... | <urn:uuid:35a23d23-5fbf-41fd-be5f-b37799d29190> | 2.734375 | 169 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 19.781532 | 95,640,170 |
Cloud-seeding may take edge off bad weather
Saturday, June 17, 2006
OTTAWA -- During St. Petersburg's 300th anniversary celebrations three years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered 10 cloud-seeding planes into the air, to induce rain about 50 kilometres outside the city. "Our aim is to empty all clouds of rai... | <urn:uuid:880f96c4-4b9f-469d-9e7d-9a6acda207ba> | 2.625 | 1,571 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 53.942183 | 95,640,178 |
Read this tip to make your life smarter, better, faster and wiser. LifeTips is the place to go when you need to know about Developing New Products and other Invention topics.
The latest ‘big thing' in new product technology is actually a very small thing – nanotechnology. And, it is opening up a floodgate of opportunit... | <urn:uuid:86a4d9c1-64bf-4c79-b732-d63642b2a1d7> | 2.546875 | 204 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 19.80875 | 95,640,179 |
This week, researchers from University of Hawai'i, Norway, and the UK have shown with innovative experiments that a rise in jellyfish blooms near the ocean's surface may lead to jellyfish falls that are rapidly consumed by voracious deep-sea scavengers.
Previous anecdotal studies suggested that deep-sea animals might a... | <urn:uuid:04b851a9-48bb-4cfb-809d-bd610951b7ec> | 3.8125 | 1,918 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 39.914082 | 95,640,191 |
AVIL is an open source (GPL) interpreter (and programming language) originally designed to run on Arduino.
AVIL programs are just plain text files stored on a micro sd card, so you have GB's of space available!
AVIL's project was initially inspired by this project.
See this website to learn more about it!
With AVIL you... | <urn:uuid:8c853c89-30c8-45e7-9bb3-6677ae683bbb> | 2.953125 | 241 | Product Page | Software Dev. | 58.242893 | 95,640,206 |
What catches your eye on the Syracuse University campus—a beautiful shot of campus, a cool project or time spent on the Shaw Quad? Take a photo and share it with us. We select photos from a variety of sources. Submit…
Syracuse University physicists first to observe rare particles produced at the Large Hadron Collider a... | <urn:uuid:1eeb00f8-4657-4987-a971-8a145d62e907> | 2.71875 | 915 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 40.447102 | 95,640,220 |
The planet is pretty much ready to go 100 percent renewable by 2050.
The country’s energy mix is under scrutiny. A report commissioned by Energy Secretary Rick Perry acknowledges that low natural gas prices—not renewables—are behind the recent closure of coal energy plants, and that the grid has managed to withstand th... | <urn:uuid:ab18b1f8-890c-4d80-b264-eafe24b039b7> | 3.234375 | 1,493 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 47.806157 | 95,640,224 |
7. A high-speed centipede in S' is 10.0cm long measured at rest in S'...(see attachment).© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com July 20, 2018, 6:56 am ad1c9bdddf
See attached for the full solution.
(a) By Length Contraction formula, L = L0
Or = 8/9
The solution determines the relativity in the given problem. | <urn:uuid:c143db40-489b-478d-b458-4386e8b3a549> | 2.625 | 93 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 91.687333 | 95,640,244 |
The marsupials, or marsupialia, are an order of pouched mammals, which include the kangaroos, koalas, and opposum, all inhabitants of Australia. The marsupial embryo stays in the utterus (womb) for only a short time. When the young are born they are little more than embryos. They crawl from the vagina into a pouch call... | <urn:uuid:36c51cca-812c-43fd-aaca-43e3d8b7f120> | 3.484375 | 213 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 50.155531 | 95,640,246 |
Shark cousin uses heat from ocean vents to incubate its eggs
B.C. specimen used to identify deep-sea fish that laid eggs at Galapagos deep sea hydrothermal vents
Birds might sit on their eggs to keep them warm until they hatch, but deep-sea fish called skates have found a less boring and time-consuming way to incubate ... | <urn:uuid:415b3f2b-ffbf-4a90-a7a6-22497786c9df> | 3.5625 | 1,218 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 47.673075 | 95,640,276 |
Study: Lakes Huron, Michigan water clarity tops Superior
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A study has found that the Great Lakes of Huron and Michigan have surpassed Lake Superior in water clarity.
Scientists analyzed satellite images from 1998 to 2012 and found that the depth light could penetrate the water increased by about 2... | <urn:uuid:349ee9a8-83b9-4cce-9b15-9b58162c1718> | 3.328125 | 368 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 45.874076 | 95,640,277 |
Sea ice algae are important primary producers, contributing to the base of the food chain in the Arctic Ocean. Their productivity and composition depend on the light, nutrient and salinity conditions present in the ice and underlying water column, all of which are likely to change in response to climate warming. Diatom... | <urn:uuid:8d5f129e-0e7a-45ff-8294-fb85b18d11ef> | 2.6875 | 577 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 13.770435 | 95,640,280 |
In this program we are going to fetch the data from the database in the table from our java program.
To accomplish our goal we first have to make a class named as ServletFetchingData which must extends the abstract HttpServlet class, the name of the class should be such that the other person can understand what this pr... | <urn:uuid:67728038-d2f9-4357-a823-a22efffa4558> | 3.375 | 446 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 45.870014 | 95,640,287 |
Match the descriptions of physical processes to these differential equations.
Explore the possibilities for reaction rates versus concentrations with this non-linear differential equation
Get further into power series using the fascinating Bessel's equation.
Look at the advanced way of viewing sin and cos through their... | <urn:uuid:9fa511da-ceeb-417c-a748-4dc80795dca1> | 3.203125 | 236 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 36.338 | 95,640,291 |
|MLA Citation:||Bloomfield, Louis A. "Question 1546: How can light travel through vacuum?"|
How Everything Works 18 Jul 2018. 18 Jul 2018 <http://howeverythingworks.org/print1.php?QNum=1546>.
The fact that light waves can travel in vacuum, and don't need any material to carry them, was disturbing to the physicists who ... | <urn:uuid:95a3a6ac-10bb-480a-8482-335e3483b661> | 3.21875 | 157 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 72.392937 | 95,640,318 |
Classification and Mapping of Land Cover Types and Attributes in Al- Ahsaa Oasis, Eastern Region, Saudi Arabia Using Landsat-7 Data
Received Date: Jan 28, 2018 / Accepted Date: Feb 08, 2018 / Published Date: Feb 12, 2018
Information about land use/cover is important and much more needed for different aspects of sustain... | <urn:uuid:ad73ef3a-afc0-4dbc-b223-c60624b82cfb> | 3.015625 | 6,121 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 42.500868 | 95,640,324 |
Species Detail - Seraphim (Lobophora halterata) - 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).
insect ... | <urn:uuid:dd1aafb3-e394-49df-897a-28cb36b1c105> | 2.65625 | 143 | Structured Data | Science & Tech. | 33.246137 | 95,640,332 |
The programming world, could be very huge, and it’s a must to do numerous analysis, in order for you to be able to grasp, any programming language in its entirety. So, in a lot of the academic institutions, the programming language BC was induced in the curriculum in 2003. However, Matlab is a proprietary language used... | <urn:uuid:1f34d3bf-aafe-4953-8e71-34c2ef1f3856> | 2.96875 | 255 | Truncated | Software Dev. | 37.851863 | 95,640,341 |
or H-bomb, weapon deriving a large portion of its energy from the nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotopes. In an atomic bomb, uranium or plutonium is split into lighter elements that together weigh less than the original atoms, the remainder of the mass appearing as energy. Unlike this fission bomb, the hydrogen bomb funct... | <urn:uuid:ac587930-0f3b-4bb9-ba9f-797076823034> | 3.5625 | 1,052 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 36.046077 | 95,640,352 |
All of the following methods are specific to Internet Explorer 4.0's Dynamic HTML object model. None are supported by Netscape or any previous versions of Internet Explorer
click method can be used to 'click' a referenced object through scripting, forcing an
onClick event for the particular element. For example, click ... | <urn:uuid:6db5f33e-2137-4412-b9d5-99e6682fa24f> | 3.1875 | 1,258 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 48.190047 | 95,640,359 |
WELCOME TO WEBMATHS!Hi, my name is Jeff Trevaskis - alias Mr. T! I live in a small town in Northern Victoria, Australia. I love teaching kids.
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Can you list all the “small” fractions, that is, those using no number higher than 5, in order of size from 0 to 1? Who was the Mathematician who named this serie... | <urn:uuid:e54379ed-3ae9-4915-b044-740179de5291> | 2.5625 | 509 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 70.750037 | 95,640,365 |
Imagine an artificial leaf that mimics photosynthesis, which lets plants harness energy from the sun. But this leaf would have the ability to power your homes and cars with clean energy using only sunlight and water.
This is not some far-off idea of the future. It's reality, and the subject of a jury-prize-winning film... | <urn:uuid:da273ce7-334a-475e-a23a-90fbd0e06a6b> | 3.484375 | 858 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 54.432174 | 95,640,387 |
Authors: Raji Heyrovska
Exactly today fifteen years ago, the author arrived at the unique result that the ground state Bohr radius of the hydrogen atom is divided into two parts pertaining to the electron and proton, the ratio of which was amazingly a constant. This constant turned out to be the Golden ratio, a mathema... | <urn:uuid:87c7ca90-8ab4-44d6-b795-95c8ae0f6597> | 3.1875 | 343 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 37.546303 | 95,640,389 |
The team used satellite data going back to 1982 to reconstruct past Arctic sea ice conditions, concluding there has been a nearly complete loss of the oldest, thickest ice and that 58 percent of the remaining perennial ice is thin and only 2-to-3 years old, said the lead study author, Research Professor James Maslanik ... | <urn:uuid:5c53be5f-9c3f-42a2-a61d-315e4013e2d4> | 3.28125 | 1,263 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 42.382679 | 95,640,394 |
Channel formation by the bacterial toxin aerolysin follows oligomerization of the protein to produce heptamers that are capable of inserting into lipid bilayers. How insertion occurs is not understood, not only for aerolysin but also for other proteins that can penetrate membranes. We have studied aerolysin channel for... | <urn:uuid:c3653034-49c8-462e-a1bf-71dcc630abb0> | 2.875 | 335 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | -9.85659 | 95,640,396 |
Scientists Unravel the Everyday Problem of Untied Shoelaces
Untied shoelaces -- it's one of life's most annoying quirks. A team of mechanical engineers at the University of California Berkeley has had enough, so they investigated the reason why shoelaces keep on coming untied.
According to a report from Phys Org, the g... | <urn:uuid:68572e4c-a6d7-454a-b461-fbf777117345> | 2.765625 | 554 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 46.095032 | 95,640,397 |
To retrieve the 3D water vapour
density structure, a discretization of the troposphere on the study area has to be performed, where it is spatially divided into a finite number of boxes or cells (usually called voxels (Flores et al.
This is only the second time water vapour
has been discovered on a moon in the solar sy... | <urn:uuid:b5093a6c-9c77-4cab-9d61-40d3e315edc7> | 3.1875 | 390 | Structured Data | Science & Tech. | 30.421426 | 95,640,458 |
Hubble was used to precisely measure, for the first time ever, the sideways motions of a small sample of stars located far from the galaxy's center. Their unusual lateral motion is circumstantial evidence that the stars may be the remnants of a shredded galaxy that was gravitationally ripped apart by the Milky Way bill... | <urn:uuid:6e1bf66d-220d-45c8-b550-4d05a98a2aca> | 3.71875 | 1,855 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 44.6054 | 95,640,464 |
US researchers have broken the record for the most amount of data sent by photons.
Using the "wiggling" and "twisting" of a pair of hyper-entangled photons, researchers at the University of Illinois have surpassed a fundamental limit on the channel capacity for dense coding with linear optics.
"Dense coding is arguably... | <urn:uuid:a8af0059-e843-4415-bb67-e61a5ce8c884> | 3.09375 | 413 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 32.413873 | 95,640,468 |
Application of Algebras
The geometric interpretation of complex numbers as points of the plane appeared for the first time in the 18th century. After that there arose the natural idea of generalizing complex numbers in such a way that they could be interpreted as points of three-dimensional space. One of the earliest a... | <urn:uuid:6246eef3-62e2-4e97-9926-07f6d6741272> | 3.375 | 206 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 34.576769 | 95,640,514 |
This webinar is a kick-off to PERN's Cyberseminar People and Pixels Revisited: 20 years of progress and new tools for population-environment research.
Twenty years ago the National Research Council published the ground-breaking People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science
(NRC, 1998). The volume focused... | <urn:uuid:08a29bc2-9fc5-4154-a3ab-1a768016da7b> | 2.578125 | 301 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 26.2105 | 95,640,529 |
We all know that if you put your hand over an open flame its very painful. What you may not know is that, for some people, just lying under a blanket is painful as well. They have neuropathic pain--annoying, chronic pain that comes from a diseased nerve cell rather than a specific stimulus. Feeling phantom pain in a mi... | <urn:uuid:02150d88-5056-44fb-bbe1-913e4dc68654> | 2.921875 | 871 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 42.91602 | 95,640,530 |
Sometimes it takes time to uncover natures secrets. Take the case of callimicos, also called Goeldis monkeys, a reclusive and diminutive South American primate. Discovered a century ago by Swiss naturalist Emil August Goeldi, the animals were once considered to be a possible "missing link" between small and large New W... | <urn:uuid:7b3bac92-0237-4d89-b4bf-520b6e4d3991> | 3.84375 | 1,023 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 32.619386 | 95,640,543 |
Exquisite wing fossils reveal the world's first butterflies appeared 200 million years ago, long BEFORE there were flowers on Earth to pollinate
- Moths and butterflies were thought to have evolved alongside flowers
- However, the world's first flowers sprouted around 140 million years ago
- This suggests moths and but... | <urn:uuid:136ca01a-1f97-44b5-b6b8-bd9332638871> | 3.640625 | 1,472 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 36.283785 | 95,640,551 |
Division. Summation of Power Series
Divide the answer to Ex. 2.2 (p × q × r) by each of its 3 factors: there will be no remainders. In each case check the decimal point of your answer by inspection of the product of the other two factors, i.e. test (pqr)/r by inspection of pq.
Find the reciprocals, to 4S, of 1·249, 0·0... | <urn:uuid:76ae86f9-991e-4c6b-8b63-6469565b336a> | 2.8125 | 153 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 75.499652 | 95,640,552 |
Washington: 'Comet Lovejoy' will light up the sky from January 7th through 24th as it is ready to enter its "best and brightest phase."
The comet had been predicted to be glowing at 4th magnitude, bright enough that skywatchers with clear, dark skies might be able to just glimpse it by eye, without optical aid and the ... | <urn:uuid:95c82a59-2e5b-401a-929c-8104c987604b> | 3.5625 | 311 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 52.678429 | 95,640,566 |
Advanced Applications of Theory of Surfaces
Special topics on the geometric properties of surfaces are treated in this chapter. They are developed from the fundamental theory of surfaces which has been explained in the previous chapter. Knowledge of these topics is useful for treating free-form surfaces in advanced pro... | <urn:uuid:a08f337a-818e-4a60-8bd7-0c91e7327488> | 3 | 570 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 49.334245 | 95,640,570 |
Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that uses the techniques of differential calculus, integral calculus, linear algebra and multilinear algebra to study problems in geometry. The theory of plane and space curves and surfaces in the three-dimensional Euclidean space formed the basis for development of di... | <urn:uuid:ad1f6458-fa7f-4ad7-84b9-c2a88c4ef7ab> | 3.46875 | 2,534 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 27.054612 | 95,640,585 |
A unique breakthrough by researchers at Linköping University in Sweden creates new potential in medicine and biochemistry and at the same time provides a new piece of the puzzle in theories about the origins of life.
Normally, inorganic materials like silica are unwelcome in biological systems, since they disrupt the f... | <urn:uuid:b9dc5fb5-76f5-45b0-b8c3-eb5b50faed83> | 3.140625 | 946 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 35.15339 | 95,640,603 |
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Shallow pressure sources associated with the 2007 and 2014 phreatic eruptions of Mt. Ontake, Japan
© The Author(s) 2016
Received: 9 March 2016
Accepted: 20 July 2016
Published: 29 July 2016
We modeled pressure sources under Mount Ontake volcano, Japan, on the basis of global navigation satellite system (G... | <urn:uuid:a2013dcb-ec4b-4c45-96de-a07a20e0c867> | 3.0625 | 4,075 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 50.144443 | 95,640,614 |
The movement and landfall of Tropical Cyclone Bingiza was captured over the weekend of Feb. 12-13 in a series of infrared satellite imagery from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite. Aqua and Terra provided companion visible images to the infrared images of Bingiza'... | <urn:uuid:671b2826-3d8b-4c42-b834-a3a24164dac0> | 3.078125 | 1,191 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 47.730278 | 95,640,621 |
Methane is a substantial driver of global climate change, contributing 30 percent of current net climate warming. Concern over methane is mounting, due to leaks associated with rapidly expanding unconventional oil and gas extraction, and the potential for large-scale release of methane from the Arctic as ice cover cont... | <urn:uuid:bab4e22a-5c4e-4001-b1c6-a4fd4920fdc9> | 3.671875 | 1,478 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 29.243593 | 95,640,635 |
This tutorial will show you how we can deal with empty or blank cell in excel file using Apache POI. We cannot handle blank or empty cell if we use cell iterator, so we have to get the maximum cell index for the row and iterate through index to deal with empty cell.
The Apache POI is to create and maintain Java APIs fo... | <urn:uuid:2ec236a3-ade6-46f0-833a-f1a9be8378fe> | 2.640625 | 219 | Truncated | Software Dev. | 56.388588 | 95,640,636 |
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I think you are talking about "hot-spots", that are "small" conducts, with a few hundred kilometers in diameter, that connect the core-mantle boundary with the surface. This idea was initially proposed by J.T. Wilson, of Toronto University, and the concept was developed later by W.J. Mo... | <urn:uuid:d4352fd7-a6df-46c3-91ec-8932fccfb86f> | 3.71875 | 388 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 55.499441 | 95,640,658 |
In a paper published by the international journal Conservation Biology, Dr Simon Black and Dr Jim Groombridge have proposed that an understanding and application of their adapted framework, now known as the Conservation Excellence Model, will enable: greater clarity in goal setting; more-effective identification of job... | <urn:uuid:5b2c9560-88ec-4780-842d-93a74f508443> | 2.75 | 997 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 32.204401 | 95,640,683 |
Nasa’s robotic spacecraft Cassini that has been orbiting Saturn for 13 years is set for a final dive towards the planet and burn up in its atmosphere in a “grand finale” after it flies ast Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, on September 15. Cassini’s imaging cameras will take their last look around the Saturn system, sendin... | <urn:uuid:bfa246fe-b7dd-4bd1-be65-3493a004749f> | 3.625 | 513 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 35.73025 | 95,640,698 |
According to New Scientist magazine, which features Dr Tyrrell's research this week, this work demonstrates the most far-reaching disruption of long-term planetary processes yet suggested for human activity.
Dr Tyrrell's team used a mathematical model to study what would happen to marine chemistry in a world with ever-... | <urn:uuid:3f8fada7-f004-4ff1-9e96-fb8cffeb73f2> | 3.921875 | 1,144 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 45.510703 | 95,640,699 |
why does carbon dioxide cause global warming
Why do carbon dioxide emissions heat up the planet? The temperature of the Earth depends on a balance between incoming energy from the Sun and the energy that bounces back into space. Carbon dioxide absorbs heat that would otherwise be lost to space. Some of this energy is r... | <urn:uuid:ec9a589e-d3ac-40c6-85a9-b6c1d83ca268> | 3.640625 | 657 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 42.547562 | 95,640,713 |
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Limnology as a process refers to the study of ponds, rivers, lakes, wetlands, streams, etc. Freshwater biology is a sub-division of limnology. It is the study of freshwater ecosystems, especially their scientific and biological aspects. It studies in detail the relationship of aquatic plants and animals... | <urn:uuid:121b9ea2-94e5-4c3f-95a3-f8c00e3cdf48> | 2.765625 | 162 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 43.198 | 95,640,719 |
An Explosion from Across the Universe — with guest Dr. Rodolfo Barniol Duran
A podcast is out!
Gamma ray bursts are some of the most powerful explosions we know of, ones that we can literally see from across the Universe. But they are extremely short — lasting only a few milliseconds to a few minutes. What could cause ... | <urn:uuid:43b4e91d-ac01-4839-a68c-8b622b6bc303> | 2.65625 | 208 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 45.991392 | 95,640,727 |
29 January 2008
29 January 2008
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Rice University have created the darkest material ever made by man, a thin coating comprised of low-density arrays of loosely vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes,
The material absorbs more than 99.9 percent of light and one day could be... | <urn:uuid:01a67382-3b11-4a0f-8921-84371f7c32fb> | 3.4375 | 1,075 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 28.114742 | 95,640,738 |