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Now, scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) in Martinsried near Munich, Germany, succeeded in making another important step in this research area: For the first time, they were able to integrate in a single experiment three different synthetic amino acids into one protein. (Angewandte Chemie, Jun... | <urn:uuid:9f461673-ae99-4287-8f8a-e04aeede9a04> | 3.34375 | 1,148 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 32.511415 | 95,641,841 |
Scientists have long known that there was a time water existed in the lakes and streams on Mars. New data recently revealed that the timing is a bit off by roughly a billion years; some of the bodies of water in the planet were found to have formed much later than initially believed.
The search for the next habitable p... | <urn:uuid:b61cdae5-467e-4901-9f55-9b04589e8732> | 3.171875 | 565 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 51.693918 | 95,641,854 |
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Pressure drop is defined as the difference in total pressure between two points of a fluid carrying network. Pressure drop occurs when frictional forces, caused by the resistance to flow, act on a fluid as it fl... | <urn:uuid:1f6bf5e7-874b-4fe9-865d-e2dc3d512d44> | 3.859375 | 208 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 42.236571 | 95,641,867 |
The project will be launched at the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Asia/Pacific Conference. It will bring together scientists from CSIRO, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), and is sponsored by Rio Tinto, the International Copper Association ... | <urn:uuid:5ce15f59-eb87-46ad-babd-6d097325248d> | 2.96875 | 1,127 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 31.706933 | 95,641,872 |
The world of fuel chemistry and production is undergoing exciting change. The range of possible biofuels includes butanol, cellulosic gasoline, cellulosic biodiesel, cellulosic “biocrude,” and many more. We will be able to remove a hydroxyl group here, add a hydrogen there, and create a longer or shorter carbon chain t... | <urn:uuid:416f9255-3add-45b3-b606-549d583f6674> | 2.78125 | 582 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 22.449586 | 95,641,873 |
Squeeze a piece of silicone and it quickly returns to its original shape, as squishy as ever. But scientists at Rice University have discovered that the liquid crystal phase of silicone becomes 90 percent stiffer when silicone is gently and repeatedly compressed. Their research could lead to new strategies for self-hea... | <urn:uuid:86d12c89-384a-455d-9da1-e96a7e6d5f83> | 3.25 | 1,123 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 36.029906 | 95,641,883 |
Space will soon be within the grasp of everyday people, small countries, researchers or start-up companies thanks to a fleet of low-cost launch vehicles under development across Europe.
Highly sophisticated computers are mining vast amounts of data from the web, digital maps and satellite imagery to pick out trends in ... | <urn:uuid:0f0d8376-6bdc-42bc-bb44-7c240a46a057> | 3 | 355 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 29.614091 | 95,641,899 |
Tropical Storm Julio continues to weaken as it moves through cooler waters of the Central Pacific Ocean.
NASA's Terra satellite passed over Julio and saw that the bulk of the clouds and precipitation were being pushed to the34 north of the center as the storm tracked far north of the Hawaiian Islands.
NASA's Terra sate... | <urn:uuid:43cfdca5-6185-4407-a9d2-7f46ccc49776> | 2.984375 | 926 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 49.636566 | 95,641,903 |
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The invasion of the land by plants ('terrestrialization') was one of the most significant evolutionary events in the history of life on Earth, and correlates in time with periods of major palaeoenvironmental perturbations. The development of a vegetation cover on the previously barren land surfaces impa... | <urn:uuid:f211da7c-1408-49b2-a066-ddb94a0c0cf8> | 3.59375 | 585 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | -25.169857 | 95,641,905 |
What scientific principle is at work in every theme park ride the Imagineers create? It's energy! The Imagineers reveal the role energy plays in popular theme park attractions such as Epcot's Test Track and the Mad Tea Party. Students will learn that energy is the ability to do work and that energy is constantly being ... | <urn:uuid:c96bb982-5d44-4d56-99bd-d739692b3a72> | 2.953125 | 95 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 36.505034 | 95,641,929 |
It is clear that the sedimentary rock was deposited and folded before the dyke was squeezed into place.By looking at other outcrops in the area, our geologist is able to draw a geological map which records how the rocks are related to each other in the field.From the mapped field relationships, it is a simple matter to... | <urn:uuid:aa3a9092-2b6e-4f36-ad4a-2b7fecc8c95c> | 3.65625 | 555 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 57.388403 | 95,641,931 |
Abstract: To improve the understanding and the modelling of soil water regimes in alpine areas it is essential to know not only the number and the properties of the soil layers, but also their spatial distribution. One common assumption used in many simulations in the literature is that that the soil layers and the bed... | <urn:uuid:d11b47cb-4b99-48f0-9261-d190ae89b873> | 2.6875 | 369 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 35.963572 | 95,641,934 |
Study by the University of Kaiserslautern
Plants use certain colour pigments in order to convert light into energy by way of photosynthesis. They allow plants to gather light energy. This also works in a similar way for microbes, for instance cyanobacteria.
The fact that a very large number of viruses are able to contr... | <urn:uuid:9f8ebe8b-6977-4bf4-9bc1-ec9fd12c1f80> | 3.75 | 1,431 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 30.843585 | 95,641,998 |
To make calcium carbonate, shell-building marine animals such as corals and oysters combine Ca+2 with carbonate CO3-2 from surrounding seawater, releasing carbon dioxide and water in the process.
Like calcium ions, hydrogen ions tend to bond with carbonate—but they have a greater attraction to carbonate than calcium. W... | <urn:uuid:eb6ce8c0-48cc-4471-951a-80862ee4d55a> | 3.5625 | 891 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 45.508478 | 95,642,038 |
Applies a function an array’s items, adding the results to a new array
A data-manipulation function.
This method applies the supplied function to every item in the target array, one by one. The results are placed in a new array created by map() and returned by it. The new array will be the same size as the target array... | <urn:uuid:699e8d77-7f9b-404d-81bc-1ce10f5f2f5a> | 2.5625 | 142 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 57.468158 | 95,642,059 |
Honing in on the Great Oxygenation EventJuly 07, 2016 / Written by: Miki Huynh
Researchers looked for a particular sulfur isotope pattern called mass-independent fraction of sulfur isotopes (S-MIF) to determine when oxygen first appeared in the Earth’s atmosphere. Photo source: MIT.
Scientist at MIT have identified the... | <urn:uuid:e3a61946-931e-4758-906a-fb41084e9056> | 3.5625 | 379 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 19.800733 | 95,642,061 |
The Elementary Concept of Area and Volume
A rectangle (right rectangular prism) with sidelengths 1,ℓ, (1,1,ℓ) units is called a normal rectangle with an area (volume) of ℓ sqaure (cubic) units.
The area (volume) of any polygon (polyhedra) P which can be decomposed into a finite number of parts so that these parts can b... | <urn:uuid:507c8a85-a6b6-4e72-8978-e32dd94dd932> | 4.03125 | 148 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 35.44 | 95,642,063 |
An Introduction to Quantum Physics anthony Philip French Edwin F Taylor Pdf
Creativity interplay between “a pedagogic masterpiece” book/website aim, how they spin systems implement computation between mechanics general relativity, so hope make accessible people with variety backgrounds introduction, thus. Pro gives you... | <urn:uuid:9b6419e0-3539-4770-8f65-41c739ea8144> | 2.625 | 714 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 9.728828 | 95,642,070 |
One of the touted benefits of the futuristic US hydrogen economy is that the hydrogen supply—in the form of water—is virtually limitless. This assumption is taken for granted so much that no major study has fully considered just how much water a sustainable hydrogen economy would need.
Michael Webber, Associate Directo... | <urn:uuid:34af696d-e7b3-429d-9f41-58f562ac8871> | 3.8125 | 1,344 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 33.020303 | 95,642,078 |
Why can cells function so efficiently under anaerobic conditions? Please help.© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com July 20, 2018, 10:03 am ad1c9bdddf
Cells that can function under anaerobic conditions have enzymes that enable them to "ferment."
As you know, anaerobic means without oxygen. Oxygen is needed as the terminal ele... | <urn:uuid:e71f1ccd-ef46-472c-ba05-3abc93f982dc> | 3.296875 | 157 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 40.623902 | 95,642,091 |
Australia has a high rate of extinctions. The rate of loss is continuing, unabated. Some recent extinctions have occurred without relevant managers having
sufficient foreknowledge the species is close to disappearing.
“The problem is that the Australian threatened species list, which is what most conservation managers ... | <urn:uuid:6906d459-9b3f-47a8-b2a4-7508fbe3b02a> | 3.578125 | 869 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 32.837445 | 95,642,111 |
The low pressure area called System 92S that tracked across northern Madagascar this week and brought flooding rains has moved into the Mozambique Channel, strengthen and has been renamed Irina. NASA satellites captured a visible image of Irina as it filled up the northern half of the Mozambique Channel.
NASA's Aqua sa... | <urn:uuid:0554ff6d-8423-4e35-8333-a33ac6b8a2b2> | 2.9375 | 1,355 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 46.345309 | 95,642,115 |
As a mobile app developer you already know that android is the most popular mobile app platform with largest number of devices running on this. It's already a common knowledge that android is based upon Java. Naturally Java being the core of android is likely to be the most preferred language for aspiring android devel... | <urn:uuid:2193a429-8507-463c-815d-851659b93c1a> | 2.53125 | 433 | Personal Blog | Software Dev. | 18.617046 | 95,642,122 |
Scientists have compiled a new database of coastal flooding in the UK over the last 100 years, which they hope will provide crucial information to help prevent future flooding events.
'SurgeWatch' contains information about 96 large storms taken from tide gauge records, which record sea levels back to 1915. It shows th... | <urn:uuid:ef47ee7b-7e01-4c79-a4eb-56aae53a6829> | 3.390625 | 1,330 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 42.028851 | 95,642,137 |
Caltech biochemists reveal how a ribosomal protein is protected by its chaperone
For proteins, this would be the equivalent of the red-carpet treatment: each protein belonging to the complex machinery of ribosomes -- components of the cell that produce proteins -- has its own chaperone to guide it to the right place at... | <urn:uuid:5c2910bd-6b58-4058-bbb6-6f550923e429> | 3.546875 | 1,718 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 30.613858 | 95,642,138 |
In order to categorise tropical cyclones around the world, the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is used defining events by their wind speed and impacts.
Although developed in the USA, tropical cyclones around the world are measured by the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale which originated from 1971 with Herbert Sa... | <urn:uuid:6b0a1bf1-f8e4-497c-98f6-80563e8b67e7> | 3.921875 | 470 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 42.422193 | 95,642,159 |
Although scientists have known for more than a century that small populations of closely related plants or animals are likely to suffer from low reproductive success, the exact mechanism by which this “inbreeding depression” occurs is still the subject of debate.
The new study, in Conservation Biology, is the first to ... | <urn:uuid:96483a75-7ef2-4d5a-84d6-5812e36d5831> | 3.59375 | 1,848 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 32.076075 | 95,642,192 |
Keys to marine invertebrates of the Woods Hole region : a manual for the identification of the more common marine invertebrates
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From the Preface: This handbook of keys is an attempt to fill an obvious need at Woods Hole, the need for a general reference on marine invertebra... | <urn:uuid:2e0680f0-53d5-467d-b256-0c2b7bc7703d> | 2.5625 | 456 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 34.160791 | 95,642,201 |
Cubosomes are small biological 'capsules' that can deliver molecules of nutrients or drugs with high efficiency. They have a highly symmetrical interior made of tiny cubes of assembled fat molecules similar to the ones in cell membranes. This also means that cubosomes are safe to use in living organisms. Such features ... | <urn:uuid:6803bfef-afca-48d4-b7bf-52f53e8bfc39> | 3.5625 | 1,495 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 33.79117 | 95,642,220 |
Washington (AFP) – A major drought across the western United States has sapped underground water resources, posing a greater threat to the water supply than previously understood, scientists said Thursday.
The study involves seven western states — including Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, California, New Mexico and N... | <urn:uuid:cd46d528-704d-4cc1-81e2-c5dbf3cb7459> | 3.40625 | 595 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 37.339753 | 95,642,270 |
Carbon Dioxide ‘Sponge’ Could Ease Transition to Cleaner Energy
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The material — a relative of the plastics used in food containers — could play a role in President Obama’s plan to cut CO2 emissions 30 percent by 2030, and could also be integrated into power plant smokestacks in the future.
The report o... | <urn:uuid:f23e0f03-3573-4fab-86ad-af4129b739da> | 3.25 | 926 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 36.100991 | 95,642,274 |
Astronomers on Monday said they have spotted evidence of water vapor plumes rising from Jupiter’s moon Europa, a finding that might make it easier to learn whether life exists in the warm, salty ocean hidden beneath its icy surface.The apparent plumes detected by the Hubble Space Telescope shoot about 125 miles (200 km... | <urn:uuid:dee385a5-4cfc-40ae-8cb0-5b8fdbbae0fc> | 3.78125 | 707 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 34.433643 | 95,642,277 |
Three views of a computer model of asteroid 1998 KY26
|Discovery site||Kitt Peak Obs.|
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|1.37 yr (500 days)|
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Molecular Scattering of Light in Gases
By using the photographic method of measurement described in Chapter III, Sec. 11, Cabannes first made measurements of the absolute intensity of scattered light in argon and measurement of the relative intensity in some other gases and vapors of organic substances. Later, Daure ,... | <urn:uuid:e47eabb0-e1ff-44d5-a878-374ef344d8f3> | 3.140625 | 138 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 5.350545 | 95,642,287 |
In the parallel universe of the microbiological world, there is a current superstar species of blue-green algae that, through its powers of photosynthesis and carbon dioxide fixation, or uptake, can produce (count 'em) ethanol, hydrogen, butanol, isobutanol and potentially biodiesel. Now that’s some five-tool player.
I... | <urn:uuid:5566e01e-3b0f-4e45-a143-aa31c4214674> | 3.03125 | 1,799 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 35.137618 | 95,642,292 |
Scientists make New Year’s resolutions like the rest of us, but their lists are just a little more ambitious.
In 2018, they plan to fly machines into the sun’s atmosphere, onto the surface of Mars and alongside an object 4 billion miles away in the Kuiper belt. They’ll deploy a gene-editing system inside the cells of l... | <urn:uuid:76e3f688-afc3-47cc-a59d-845a289e506d> | 3.5625 | 3,103 | Listicle | Science & Tech. | 51.476785 | 95,642,317 |
This chapter contains the general integral or local balance law in Eulerian and Lagrangian form. Then, this general law is used to derive the mass conservation, the Cauchy stress-tensor, Piola–Kirchhoff tensor, the momentum equation, the angular momentum with the symmetry of Cauchy’s stress-tensor, the balance of energ... | <urn:uuid:0d2e5c41-469e-4ade-99ac-c5a83999fa63> | 2.625 | 353 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 45.879732 | 95,642,320 |
Dr. Wesley Sundquist, professor of biochemistry at the University of Utah, will present at the Experimental Biology 2003 meeting in San Diego on his work in elucidating how HIV is manufactured and assembled in the cell.
The raison dêtre of a virus such as HIV, if a non-living thing can be said to have one, is to turn a... | <urn:uuid:39292b79-7e13-40f2-a68b-4dc475d40420> | 2.640625 | 888 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 44.456039 | 95,642,341 |
The Cassini mission to Saturn is a joint undertaking of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the European Space Agency (ESA), the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, and numerous other European academic and industrial participants. The Cassini mission will provide a close-up investigation of the Saturn system, inc... | <urn:uuid:872d81fd-ddb7-427d-a6f2-535a69138b05> | 3.453125 | 240 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 30.207662 | 95,642,342 |
That risk is, if anything, even greater today than 20 years ago...
Scientists have created the world's first synthetic life form in a landmark experiment that paves the way for designer organisms that are built rather than evolved.
The controversial feat, which has occupied 20 scientists for more than 10 years at an es... | <urn:uuid:b556f082-2317-4bf0-a3ad-d9f64631634d> | 3.375 | 659 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 41.755226 | 95,642,377 |
Note on Electron-Neutron Interaction
Assuming a possible short-range interaction between electrons and neutrons of the form V = Kδ(r N - r e ) where δ is the Dirac delta function and r N and r e are the vector positions of electron and neutron, respectively, it is shown that probably |K| < 30mc 2(e 2 /mc 2)3 from consi... | <urn:uuid:e4510b19-fcc1-423e-8721-f69ab00cdf3c> | 2.828125 | 233 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 39.964286 | 95,642,384 |
If you’ve survived Shiga toxin and the after-effects of food poisoning, you may have been the innocent victim of a battle for survival between predator and prey.
Bacteria that carry a virus (a bacteriophage) that packs the Shiga toxin gene (Stx) may depend on it for protection from bacterial predators like the ciliated... | <urn:uuid:3f261162-302a-4cda-ae04-137d65e8489e> | 3.53125 | 1,199 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 37.517904 | 95,642,389 |
Land-use change is a major threat for biodiversity and ecosystem functions. We have studied this topic in the highlands of southern Brazil. Here grasslands have decreased strongly due to pine plantations and expansion of arable land. We currently study the effects of grassland management and land-use change on biotic a... | <urn:uuid:d41bbbb4-da96-4853-aa1b-e2f7b6456c85> | 3.125 | 293 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 22.454693 | 95,642,395 |
As part of our Long-Term Marine Sediment Monitoring Program, we evaluate the health of six urban bays in Puget Sound by monitoring sediments in:
Studying critters in urban sediments
Urban bays are bays near population centers, making them subject to many pressures, including pollution. We monitor the benthic (bottom) h... | <urn:uuid:7c6c7c38-bc23-48d3-b35a-fd28393a4859> | 2.65625 | 124 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 16.14337 | 95,642,412 |
List of fusion experiments
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Experiments directed toward de... | <urn:uuid:f91eba67-ce9e-416a-a44d-8e0376fbef37> | 3.578125 | 3,757 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 41.777269 | 95,642,413 |
David M. Rubin, 1995. "Forecasting Techniques, Underlying Physics, and Applications", Nonlinear Dynamics and Fractals: New Numerical Techniques for Sedimentary Data, Gerard V. Middleton, Roy E. Plotnick, David M. Rubin
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A new report from the Wildlife Conservation Society shows that no-take zones in Belize can not only help economically valuable species such as lobster, conch, and fish recover from overfishing, but may also help re-colonize nearby reef areas.
The report—titled "Review of the Benefits of No-Take Zones"—represents a syst... | <urn:uuid:e9d8daf3-f018-4d72-a6bc-dd8591151669> | 3.34375 | 1,115 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 34.79794 | 95,642,429 |
A molecule or larger body is chiral if it cannot be superimposed on its mirror image (enantiomer). Electromagnetic fields may be chiral, too, with circularly polarized light (CPL) as the paradigmatic example. A recently introduced measure of the local degree of chiral dissymmetry in electromagnetic fields suggested the... | <urn:uuid:19f18d56-07f4-4f82-be8c-b376e5b8a197> | 2.6875 | 200 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | -12.283822 | 95,642,439 |
SEM images at different magnification of core–shell Pb@GaS nanoparticles produced by solar ablation..
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Weizmann Institute and Ben-Gurion University scientists have produced an advance in nanomaterials that can lead in the future to new optoelectric devices, sensors, hig... | <urn:uuid:8c27be0e-4eec-4a08-8980-07914990f801> | 3.5 | 986 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 27.345448 | 95,642,455 |
Effects of juvenile coral-feeding butterflyfishes on host corals
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Corals provide critical settlement habitat for a wide range of coral reef fishes, particularly corallivorous butterflyfishes, which not only settle directly into live corals but also use this coral as an exclusive food source. This study e... | <urn:uuid:b98754ad-cb66-4ca9-81a9-fb954a24b1b0> | 2.859375 | 609 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 37.834539 | 95,642,468 |
Skip to comments.The earth's magnetic field impacts climate: Danish study
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The earth's climate has been significantly affected by the planet's magnetic field, according to a Danish study published Monday that could challenge the notion that human emissions are responsible for... | <urn:uuid:bcadb6af-4060-4d28-a2c7-2495afd47031> | 3.21875 | 602 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 43.140948 | 95,642,473 |
XQuery - Wikipedia
Features. XQuery is a functional, side effect-free, expression-oriented programming language with a simple type system, summed up by Kilpeläinen: All XQuery expressions operate on sequences, and evaluate to sequences.
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A young boy got really curious about binary strings. This string contains only 1s and 0s hence the name binary. His particular interest was about those strings for which no two ones are side by side. Specifically he wanted to know the number of st... | <urn:uuid:d1079dba-8ffc-42ee-a693-b47a9942a1e1> | 3.515625 | 351 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 90.44535 | 95,642,530 |
Global wetlands surveyed from space
Wetlands across four continents will be the focus of study during ESA’s Globwetland project. Wetlands fulfil a large number of very useful biological and hydrological functions but are increasingly under threat from human activities.
Dotted across varied regions of our planet are the... | <urn:uuid:c6b76be0-6b81-4b37-bc86-d5402717e665> | 4.0625 | 1,767 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 23.712231 | 95,642,531 |
Salinity (//) is the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water (see also soil salinity). This is usually measured in (note that this is technically dimensionless). Salinity is an important factor in determining many aspects of the chemistry of natural waters and of biological processes within it, and is ... | <urn:uuid:868fad89-07d9-4e66-9470-5d783b4e5662> | 4.1875 | 3,107 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 44.10595 | 95,642,561 |
A forecasting tool reveals which cities will be affected as different portions of the ice sheet melt, say scientists.
It looks at the Earth’s spin and gravitational effects to predict how water will be “redistributed” globally.
“This provides, for each city, a picture of which glaciers, ice sheets, [and] ice caps are o... | <urn:uuid:968b9061-da7c-41ec-a3d3-bdcfaab19f84> | 3.96875 | 555 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 53.531364 | 95,642,586 |
Gleason's theorem (named after Andrew M. Gleason) is a mathematical result which shows that the rule one uses to calculate probabilities in quantum physics follows logically from particular assumptions about how measurements are represented mathematically. More specifically, it proves that the Born rule for the probabi... | <urn:uuid:bd608308-c845-4952-86ef-8646d7574a41> | 3.59375 | 4,374 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 64.634273 | 95,642,596 |
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A golf ball of mass 0.045 kg is hit off the tee at a speed of 48 m/s. The golf club was in contact with the ball for 5.4 10-3 s.
(a) Find the magnitude of the impulse imparted to the golf ball.
(b) Find the magnitude of the average force exerted on the ball by the golf club. | <urn:uuid:72738718-b667-4f0d-81a1-e3a54835e2fb> | 3.328125 | 82 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 99.533636 | 95,642,599 |
The numerical solution of boundary value problems is indispensable in almost all fields of physics and engineering sciences. The recent development, e.g. the study of three-dimensional problems, leads to systems of a larger and larger number of equations. Although the computers have become faster and vector computers a... | <urn:uuid:6709645b-d6c1-46f8-9988-1bfe3909a25a> | 2.765625 | 181 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 36.377639 | 95,642,611 |
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A new study released this week found that the world’s oceans rose significantly faster last century than in any of the previous 27 centuries. It also showed levels increasing even faster along the East Coast, including the shores of Massachusetts.
Researchers say they expect sea le... | <urn:uuid:6c572c44-fb35-449f-9b7c-4d1ecf9d1215> | 3.375 | 1,605 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 50.15231 | 95,642,614 |
Authors: George Rajna
Now University of Rochester researchers have succeeded in creating particles with negative mass in an atomically thin semiconductor, by causing it to interact with confined light in an optical microcavity. The device is a type of spectrometer—an optical instrument that takes light and breaks it d... | <urn:uuid:d362f2dd-1fa0-4014-bbb2-e047d1091428> | 2.9375 | 594 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 23.442398 | 95,642,634 |
Folding of Eukaryotic Proteins Produced in Escherichia Coli
The development of recombinant DNA technology has allowed production in prokaryotic hosts of proteins derived from eukaryotic organisms. The use of heterologous expression has had a large impact on the pharmaceutical industry since it enables large scale produ... | <urn:uuid:beb4e5eb-cd22-494f-ba06-9f111f4b2480> | 2.65625 | 392 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 49.773567 | 95,642,653 |
Java Web Services
First Edition March 2002
ISBN: 0-596-00269-6, 276 pages
Java Web Services shows you how to use SOAP to perform remote method calls and message
passing; how to use WSDL to describe the interface to a web service or understand
the interface of someone else's service; and how to use UDDI to advertise (pu... | <urn:uuid:9d43a589-b475-4f5d-aef1-b6f143db5706> | 2.640625 | 11,438 | Truncated | Software Dev. | 47.599299 | 95,642,685 |
A View from Emerging Technology from the arXiv
First Quantum-Enhanced Images of a Living Cell
Biologists have used “squeezed light” to create the first images of a living cell that beat the diffraction limit
Many of the most important but least understood processes of life occur inside cells at the sub-nanometer scale,... | <urn:uuid:9b73088c-b40d-4960-92b5-7292ed3cf349> | 3.46875 | 791 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 38.064368 | 95,642,688 |
The world speed record for protein folding apparently goes to an unusually tiny specimen that traces its origins to Gila monster spit.
University of Florida researchers have discovered that the Tryptophan cage protein, derived from the saliva of the Gila monster lizard, zooms to its folded state, above, in four million... | <urn:uuid:af043f70-ee38-4955-b7c7-3ac84ed4648b> | 3.28125 | 932 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 37.574242 | 95,642,701 |
In its bulk liquid form, water is a disordered medium that flows very readily. When most substances are compressed into a solid, their density increases. But water is different; when it becomes ice, it becomes less dense. For this reason, many scientists reasoned that when water is compressed (as it is in a nanometer-s... | <urn:uuid:5f97656a-9eeb-4b4f-aff2-9bed3d401e39> | 3.78125 | 1,591 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.4863 | 95,642,702 |
I need your assistance in putting together a response to the following earth science essay question:
The Gravitational pull of the moon, earth and sun, the rotation, revolution and tilt of the earth, the Coriolis effect, planetary and local winds, the ocean, evaporation, humidity and aerosols, all effect our weather. H... | <urn:uuid:ca507c7d-9de1-4233-a907-242404dc866c> | 3.796875 | 1,034 | Nonfiction Writing | Science & Tech. | 45.063531 | 95,642,707 |
Calculate the wavelength of the tone frequency 11 kHz if the sound travels at speeds of 343 m/s.
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Washington: A massive radio telescope in rural West Virginia has begun listening for signs of alien life on 86 possible Earth-like planets, US astronomers said.
The giant dish began this week pointing toward each of the 86 planets -- culled from a list of 1,235 possible planets identified by NASA`s Kepler space telesco... | <urn:uuid:bd8f4918-526a-4fc2-b057-76eb7ed3e02b> | 2.96875 | 326 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 28.116811 | 95,642,719 |
Another Corny Mule Yarn
A mule and a donkey were going to market laden with corn. The mule said, "If you gave me one measure I should carry twice as much as you; but if I gave you one we should bear equal burdens." Tell me, learned geometrician, what were these burdens?
Source: Euclid, 300 B.C. | <urn:uuid:840a60b4-9cf6-4553-920a-5e1678f7dbb4> | 2.65625 | 79 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 72.074526 | 95,642,736 |
From snatching carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the air like trees do, to launching giant mirrors into space, scientists are researching a wide variety of technologies to artificially slow global warming.
News, Blogs & Features
- Jul 18th, 2018 - Missouri Farms Hold Big Potential as Carbon Storehouse
- Jul 14th, 2018 - As S... | <urn:uuid:51c9ccbc-91a1-4341-af49-82a6168f4968> | 2.765625 | 137 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | -17.529213 | 95,642,755 |
First Transistor That Mimics Brain Synapse
French researchers have created what they claim is the first transistor to mimic the connections in the human brain. It could lead to neurology-inspired computers, as well as provide a means for connecting artificial devices to existing biological tissue.
Schematic diagram ill... | <urn:uuid:ac50ccd7-6d73-4161-9b63-b340684d55dd> | 3.484375 | 1,477 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 50.083562 | 95,642,761 |
flow of air relative to the earth's surface. A wind is named according to the point of the compass from which it blows, e.g., a wind blowing from the north is a north wind.
The direction of wind is usually indicated by a thin strip of wood, metal, or plastic (often in the shape of an arrow or a rooster) called a weathe... | <urn:uuid:41f0575d-998b-47f1-a5d0-cfcbd23fca51> | 4.15625 | 1,366 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 42.992536 | 95,642,766 |
Supercomputer simulations by two Sandia researchers have significantly altered the theoretical diagram universally used by scientists to understand the characteristics of water at extreme temperatures and pressures.
The new computational model also expands the known range of water’s electrical conductivity.
The Sandia ... | <urn:uuid:7f8080d2-bbc0-426b-b40b-31e4e9d389e2> | 3.921875 | 1,246 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 23.789856 | 95,642,781 |
Once polluted soil is thermically cleaned up, a dead product is the result. However, the Dutch government emphasizes the so-called principle of multifunctionality of the soil. The most vulnerable function of the soil is the ecological function. To assess the possibilities of ecological recovery of cleaned soils, a fiel... | <urn:uuid:b9363183-78f7-4673-bcb7-b08fc09d28d4> | 3 | 257 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 17.034992 | 95,642,809 |
Thermogravimetric Analysis of Minerals
Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), in which the mass of a sample is monitored as a function of temperature, is one of the oldest analytical techniques used in clay mineralogy. One of the first applications to the study of minerals was reported in 1903 by Nernst and Riesenfeld. Sinc... | <urn:uuid:de805401-750f-4e6c-8bf8-d90451d9fd10> | 3.4375 | 329 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 2.641071 | 95,642,819 |
(Oak Ridge, TN)—The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Inorganic Chemistry Division has published a Provisional Recommendation for the names and symbols of the recently discovered superheavy elements 113, 115, 117, and 118.
The provisional names for 115, 117, and 118—originally proposed by the di... | <urn:uuid:23f90024-e742-4fa7-b83e-08cd9834e662> | 2.59375 | 771 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 17.191616 | 95,642,825 |
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- 8 Object-Oriented Programming
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A type determines the set of values and operations specific to values of that type, and t... | <urn:uuid:29da1551-8f57-49e5-a6f5-9c096682b50a> | 3.65625 | 508 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 26.886667 | 95,642,826 |
Scientists from Durham University have deciphered the landforms and created a model of the British and Irish Ice Sheet (BIIS) which reveals for the first time how glaciers reversed their flows and retreated back into upland regions from where they originated.
These ice sheet flow patterns created a unique 'overprinting... | <urn:uuid:0b52e2ec-7fc5-43f3-bd71-f2958c0f6a5a> | 4.03125 | 1,976 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 41.739996 | 95,642,827 |
The superior thermal conductivity of single crystal diamond (20 W/cm/K at room temperature for type IIa diamond) makes diamond desirable for many applications requiring the dissipation of heat. Several experimental methods have been used to determine whether chemical vapor deposited (CVD) diamond has a comparable therm... | <urn:uuid:471e9d12-1033-4c58-a3ba-b1fcc1f8e3f0> | 3.09375 | 182 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 62.77661 | 95,642,840 |
translational speed of 10 meters per second, a mass m of 25 kg, and a radius r of 0.2 meters. The moment
of inertia of the sphere about its center of mass is I = 2/5 mr2. The sphere approaches a 25° incline of
height 3 meters as shown above and rolls up the incline without slipping.
neglecting air resistance, calculate... | <urn:uuid:90a80e54-1cc7-4b3f-b539-28258adca61a> | 3.25 | 106 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 63.655714 | 95,642,850 |
Acoustic Control of Flow Instabilities
The lecture reviews the common origin of sound and instabilities in weak perturbations of a smooth flow. The degree to which sound and instabilities interact, or indeed the degree to which they are separable, depends on their semantic definition. At one level they are merely secon... | <urn:uuid:6d1dba1b-d3eb-4cc2-a279-490324e2c4ca> | 2.71875 | 1,210 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 57.720397 | 95,642,861 |
Loss of biodiversity appears to affect ecosystems as much as climate change, pollution and other major forms of environmental stress, according to results of a new study by an international research team.
The study is the first comprehensive effort to directly compare the effects of biological diversity loss to the ant... | <urn:uuid:4bab26cd-0c63-422b-ab13-c4d1b5ddd543> | 3.640625 | 1,676 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 24.653769 | 95,642,876 |
Cellular Automata Approaches for Simulating Rheology of Complex Geological Phenomena
Cellular Automata (CA) permit sometime an alternative method to differential equations for modelling and simulating some kind of complex systems, which can be described in terms of local interactions of their constituent parts. Typical... | <urn:uuid:95ac8bea-9c09-4f94-8019-15b17b666a56> | 2.59375 | 845 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 47.725799 | 95,642,886 |
Hydrology studies the distribution of water on Earth's surface, its interaction with other natural substances and the role that it plays in plant and animal life. The continuous exchange of water between land and the atmosphere is called the hydrological cycle. By a number of factors, the first among them is the heat r... | <urn:uuid:23b79ef8-0072-4a91-8cfd-2e6d987131f3> | 4 | 634 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 50.4736 | 95,642,905 |
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The second largest order of mammals, Chiroptera comprises more than one thousand species of bats. Because of their mobility, bats are often the only native mammals on isolated oceanic is... | <urn:uuid:b6e133e8-83ec-40dd-9cfe-993a82641465> | 3 | 419 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 30.497724 | 95,642,930 |
So, what is the difference between “True South” and “Magnetic South,” anyway? Well, if you imagine the axis that the earth rotates around, the point at which that pokes out of the earth in the middle of Antarctica, that’s true south. But when you hold up a compass you aren’t really finding “true” north or south, you ca... | <urn:uuid:d797f0f2-a550-4637-9ffe-9eb1af057117> | 3.09375 | 473 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 72.852585 | 95,642,940 |
Caretta caretta (North East Atlantic subpopulation)
|Scientific Name:||Caretta caretta (North East Atlantic subpopulation)|
See Caretta caretta
|Red List Category & Criteria:||Endangered B2ab(iii) ver 3.1|
|Assessor(s):||Casale, P. & Marco, A.|
|Reviewer(s):||Wallace, B.P. & Pilcher, N.J.|
The North-East Atlantic Logge... | <urn:uuid:45142db1-92a6-433a-876c-94257d3e1ec9> | 2.96875 | 3,510 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 31.191678 | 95,642,954 |
Professor Isa Bar-On
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Renewable energy technologies are infrequently evaluated with regard to water use for electricity generation; however traditional thermoelectric power generation uses approximat... | <urn:uuid:e46f3f07-6ada-4bee-9ae6-099cc893da1d> | 2.71875 | 590 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 13.151685 | 95,642,959 |
The Effects of Land Use and Management on the Global Carbon Cycle
Major uncertainties in the global carbon (C) balance and in projections of atmospheric CO2 include the magnitude of the net flux of C between the atmosphere and land and the mechanisms responsible for that flux. A number of approaches, both top-down and ... | <urn:uuid:6235322d-901d-4c70-8648-36a3541dbadf> | 3.140625 | 322 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 21.982692 | 95,642,962 |
The world is abuzz with the discovery of an extrasolar, Earth-like planet around the star Gliese 581 that is relatively close to our Earth at 20 light years away in the constellation Libra.
Bruce Fegley, Jr., Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has ... | <urn:uuid:975fd610-9576-473b-a0ed-d98ece65fedc> | 3.390625 | 1,634 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 35.082914 | 95,642,969 |
Study reveals how differences in male and female brains emerge in C. elegans
News May 16, 2016
Nematode worms may not be from Mars or Venus, but they do have sex-specific circuits in their brains that cause the males and females to act differently. According to new research published in Nature, scientists have determin... | <urn:uuid:03b4bb2d-032a-4bf5-ab39-72e8b6c1e192> | 3.171875 | 912 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 34.048717 | 95,642,972 |
Britain Just Ran Entirely on Coal-Free Energy for Nearly Six Days
...for the first time ever
Over 50 percent of the United Kingdom’s electricity has come from low-carbon sources including UK nuclear, imported French nuclear, biomass, hydro, wind and solar for the first time ever.
The new study from energy company Drax,... | <urn:uuid:58256885-e56a-4cde-b288-7b5732ef20ef> | 2.859375 | 607 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 41.428647 | 95,642,987 |
Despite widespread concern about climate change, annual carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels and manufacturing cement have grown 38 percent since 1992, from 6.1 billion tons of carbon to 8.5 billion tons in 2007. At the same time, the source of emissions has shifted dramatically as energy use has been gro... | <urn:uuid:d38b48f7-ee85-41fe-8b46-0b705196e45a> | 3.515625 | 763 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 33.12791 | 95,643,000 |
Hi, I am a bit confused with this question. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I keep getting the wrong answer.
Question: Three capacitors (4.0, 6.0, and 10.0 uF) are connected in series across a 50.0 V battery. Find the voltage across the 4.0 uF capacitor. Answer in Volts© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com July 16, 201... | <urn:uuid:73b07155-2463-4743-9cd2-9af33a868af8> | 2.703125 | 139 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 87.50551 | 95,643,001 |
"Orbital flight of CubeSats in extremely Low Earth Orbit, defined here as an altitude between 150 – 250 km, has the potential to enable a wide range of missions in support of atmospheric measurements, national security, and natural resource monitoring. In this work, a mission study is presented to demonstrate the feasi... | <urn:uuid:cf984b78-2a60-4f16-9e44-b1968f95d9e8> | 2.734375 | 511 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 46.278975 | 95,643,012 |
Effect of Nanoparticles on Electrolytes and Electrode/Electrolyte Interface
The addition of nano-sized inorganic fillers such as SiO2 to solid and liquid electrolytes to enhance their electrochemical and physical properties has been recently the focus of great deal of research. In this chapter, we review the work done ... | <urn:uuid:b2393497-4181-4155-92b9-647241cf1ebd> | 2.625 | 313 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 4.738608 | 95,643,030 |
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Found most commonly in these habitats: 4 times found in secondary lowland rainforest, 5 times found in primary lowland rainforest, 8 times found in rainforest, 7 times found in Bamboo forest, 2 times found in 2º wet forest, 3 times found in... | <urn:uuid:339c9fb0-399f-4f37-997d-d3de05573611> | 2.765625 | 416 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 57.93471 | 95,643,031 |
In June 2018, scientists have observed a global dust storm on Mars, which has become one of the largest in the entire history of observations. The storm began in the Valley of Perseverance and in less than a week covered an area of 18 million km2. Scientists had hoped that the effects of dust storm on Mars does not aff... | <urn:uuid:912c1220-7334-4212-856f-ece14868b346> | 3.484375 | 723 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 41.021453 | 95,643,046 |
RNA silencing occurs in a broad range of organisms. Although its ancestral function is probably related to the genome defense mechanism against repetitive selfish elements, it has been found that RNA silencing regulates different cellular processes such as gene expression and chromosomal segregation. In Neurospora cras... | <urn:uuid:c8d98097-1b30-47ad-92da-d2b91ea8b33a> | 3.40625 | 119 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 8.899032 | 95,643,078 |