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Reported September 2008
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- More hurricanes strike the U.S. in September than in any other month of the year. The best-built houses are more likely to survive these severe storms. Now, there’s a new way to test how homes hold up -- and it’s just like being in the eye of the storm.
Wi... | <urn:uuid:6f548e68-323d-4582-9e16-4372b2a6b7d8> | 3.078125 | 890 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 51.168697 | 3,100 |
Assigning the result of a Boolean calculation into a variable is no different than assigning the result of number calculations or text string joins.
The following are examples of assigning the results of comparisons into new or existing Boolean variables.
1 var timeToEat = me === hungry; 2 var affordable = price < budg... | <urn:uuid:4d13388d-c58a-41cc-8d37-3bb19d23dbe1> | 3.578125 | 275 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 42.464534 | 3,101 |
A group of researchers has re-created with remarkable accuracy part of the genome of the common ancestor of all placental mammals, a small shrew-like creature that prowled the forests of what is now Asia more than 80 million years ago. By comparing DNA sequences of 19 species of existing mammals, including humans, the ... | <urn:uuid:cb252edf-44ce-47e9-b87e-a2415a92d41e> | 3.734375 | 558 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 38.451692 | 3,102 |
There has not even been 1 privately sponsored mission to the moon, and mars is over 200 times as far.
Photograph by John B. Carnett, Popular Science/Getty Images
Illustration courtesy Inspiration Mars Foundation
Story updated March 1, 2013
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These students in Shishmaref, Alaska live on frozen ground. But frozen ground matters to people all over the world, even if the ground is not frozen where they live. —Credit: Angela Alston
People may not think much about frozen ground, but they notice what can happen when the ground freezes. The frozen ground may spit ... | <urn:uuid:d2623c5f-3070-4a94-b3a1-14c0e43ea72a> | 3.3125 | 514 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 66.76663 | 3,104 |
This illustration shows an artist’s impression of the brown dwarf 2MASSW J1207334-393254, or 2M1207 for short. With a mass that amounts to 25 times that of Jupiter, 2M1207 is surrounded by a circumstellar disc of gas and dust and possesses a planetary companion five times more massive than Jupiter. The planetary compan... | <urn:uuid:013a7432-9520-48e6-be36-74cb4bd9c787> | 3.421875 | 190 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 36.743703 | 3,105 |
Lightning sprites are out-of-this-worldNovember 21st, 2011 in Space & Earth / Space Exploration
This is a sprite "streamer" as it might appear in the atmosphere of Saturn, created in a Tel Aviv University lab. Credit: American Friends of Tel Aviv University (AFTAU)
Only a few decades ago, scientists discovered the exis... | <urn:uuid:30191f3a-8251-46eb-a938-f7120eafefbf> | 3.4375 | 896 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 34.667836 | 3,106 |
This may be a naive question, but after the Fukushima Daiichi partial meltdown and studying the aftermath of Chernobyl it seems they could be helped by this idea.
In Chernobyl, the liquidators that cleaned up the disaster tunneled concrete under the reactor core and covered the whole complex in a big containment unit. ... | <urn:uuid:71fdea2a-415a-4fe9-bc9a-5ac80bbee432> | 3.40625 | 189 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 49.446623 | 3,107 |
It turns out that the largest black holes may be even bigger than scientists previously thought. New research from NASA shows there are some real monsters out there, weighing the equivalent masses of 10 to 40 billion suns.
Scientists refer to them as ‘ultramassive’ black holes, not to confuse them with ‘supermassive’ h... | <urn:uuid:162b736b-d121-45ad-910b-7ba5b58f5605> | 3.828125 | 548 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 50.473526 | 3,108 |
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Black Carbon Pollution Emerges as Major Player in Global Warming
Soot from biomass burning, diesel exhaust has 60 percent of the effect of carbon dioxide on warming but mitigation offers immediate benefits
Scripps Institution ... | <urn:uuid:5f56ea92-827c-4c60-a1b4-8b473c1f0daf> | 3.34375 | 1,324 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 26.807384 | 3,110 |
Flying Formation - Around the Moon at 3,600 MPH
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The act of two or more aircraft flying together in a disciplined, synchronized manner is one of the cornerstones of military aviation, as well as just about any organized air show. But as amazing as the U.S. Navy's elite Blue Angels or the U.S. Air Force's Thu... | <urn:uuid:a75b7a0b-347f-48ac-8963-8b5a97761807> | 3.234375 | 1,395 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 54.645603 | 3,111 |
AleochariniJames S. Ashe (1947-2005) and Christian Maus
This tree diagram shows the relationships between several groups of organisms.
The root of the current tree connects the organisms featured in this tree to their containing group and the rest of the Tree of Life. The basal branching point in the tree represents th... | <urn:uuid:161264a1-505c-4669-8d22-623217bf35ca> | 3.140625 | 1,333 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 46.599432 | 3,112 |
Video Script: Separation of a Cell
This page represents the script I wrote to showcase an "illustration" entry I put into the NSF International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge in 2011 and made it into the finals and Science magazine. The video helped communicate the significance of the video. In particu... | <urn:uuid:8cac9e17-fd07-41e1-b5b4-d1c306051652> | 3.109375 | 1,016 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 28.630774 | 3,113 |
Physicist: The issue here is the equinoxes are the two days of the year when the length of the day should be exactly as long as the night. And yet you’ll find that on the equinox the day is always slightly longer than 12 hours. As it happens, there’s nothing particularly special about the exquini. There’s just more day... | <urn:uuid:2f4e7b3e-b5e8-4811-899f-b9c96fd3a5d7> | 2.953125 | 286 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 60.113007 | 3,114 |
1716, English astronomer
Edmond Halley noted,
"This is but a little Patch, but it shews itself to the naked Eye, when
the Sky is serene and the Moon absent."
Of course, M13
is now modestly recognized as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules,
one of the brightest
star clusters in the northern sky.
Telescopic views reve... | <urn:uuid:3ea5baf3-1c0b-4979-a3e1-34c91d3d7476> | 3.203125 | 212 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 55.164781 | 3,115 |
One solar day on a planet is the length of time
from noon to noon.
A solar day lasts 24 hours on planet Earth.
On Mercury a solar day is about 176 Earth days long.
And during its
first Mercury solar day
the MESSENGER spacecraft has
imaged nearly the entire surface of the
to generate a global monochrome map at 250 meter... | <urn:uuid:223b6af5-facf-4efb-8944-62780d92c0f8> | 3.578125 | 196 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 42.861695 | 3,116 |
Connecting black holes and galaxy death
For many years, black holes have fascinated scientists and the public alike with their peculiar ability to warp space and time and their almost sinister tendency to devour everything they encounter.
April 19, 2010
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April 1... | <urn:uuid:7061d073-7bcd-4e44-bae8-2cf2eaf9fab5> | 3.8125 | 687 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 29.144433 | 3,117 |
The pyloric network (Figure 1) is part of the stomatogastric ganglion (STG) of crustaceans . The network is a central pattern generator (CPG) that drives the muscles of the pylorus, which is a food filtering organ within the gastric system of these animals. The pyloric network is one of the most researched neural circu... | <urn:uuid:8e7f35e6-6e0e-4964-b844-9b03ff62065d> | 2.765625 | 519 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 26.773542 | 3,118 |
Brookhaven National Laboratory has posted on its Web site a report by expert physicists who recently reviewed speculative disaster scenarios at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
The report summarizes technical discussions that conclude there is no danger of a "disaster" at RHIC.
In July 1999, Brookhaven Lab Director... | <urn:uuid:44539572-5b5e-4cb1-b186-c83502fb9df3> | 2.75 | 388 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 35.100333 | 3,119 |
Gene expression is the process of taking genetic information in DNA and translating it into biological functions such as protein synthesis. Gene expression explains the effect of genes on the body on both the macroscopic and microscopic level.
Gene expression is the way that a gene a section of your DNA is turned into ... | <urn:uuid:cb2de30d-88fd-424e-a507-5a0b13b2122d> | 4.0625 | 721 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 60.197724 | 3,120 |
- What is wind energy?
- What is a wind turbine, and how does it make electricity?
- What is a kW and what is a kWh?
- Who is involved in this project?
- Why a wind turbine on UD’s Lewes campus?
- How big is the wind turbine?
- When was the turbine installed?
- How much electricity does the wind turbine generate?
- Do ... | <urn:uuid:8d5e92f6-28ce-4955-9ee2-f4ac92bae1af> | 3.640625 | 2,022 | FAQ | Science & Tech. | 37.289096 | 3,121 |
The neutral theory of molecular evolution suggests that most of the genetic variation in populations is the result of mutation and genetic drift and not selection.
Basically, the theory suggests that if a population carries several different versions of a gene, odds are that each of those versions is equally good at pe... | <urn:uuid:a3ec3bc2-7990-4e40-8491-c8e0429e5f23> | 3.734375 | 200 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 27.5075 | 3,122 |
Comparison and Inheritance
We continue last week's discussion of comparison functions by thinking about how to compare objects from different parts of an inheritance hierarchy.
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The discoveries in Mkhambathi Nature Reserve on South Africa's Wild Coast were made by scientists and volunteers from Earthwatch during an eight-day period in 2008. The scientists were working in partnership with Eastern Cape Parks, the government organisation that manages the protected areas in the Eastern Cape Provin... | <urn:uuid:09220fa5-c100-42ee-8db6-c6a3f3a4332a> | 3.96875 | 634 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 31.508431 | 3,124 |
A function call terminates if it returns to its caller or throws an exception. A function call does not terminate if it goes into an infinite loop, halts execution of the program (gracefully or not), or jumps in such a way that it does not return or throw an exception that could be caught by its caller.
Taking terminat... | <urn:uuid:d93fab9c-06b5-4fd8-8d03-b62dd1dc859a> | 2.71875 | 253 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 53.607218 | 3,125 |
Extremely High Horizon Refraction
[ version française du site EH2R ici ]
|Description: Refraction of sun light due to cold dense polar air under warmer thermal layers causes an increase in brightness almost unknown within present physics literature. Global Warming may be seen by studying simple satellite picture archiv... | <urn:uuid:2d20bf87-7fde-4d9c-bfbc-4d1c395baa3d> | 3.296875 | 33,471 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 61.746996 | 3,126 |
POLSTAR in ’98
Airborne expedition to investigate the causes of ozone loss in the region of the Polar Tropopause
The measurement campaign POLSTAR 98 took place in January – February 1998 in Kiruna, northern Sweden, as part of the Ozone Research Programme of the Federal Ministry for Education, Science, Research and Tech... | <urn:uuid:987b26ba-8c55-4298-ba18-afd8c5821845> | 3.09375 | 763 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 24.244082 | 3,127 |
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is a collaborative national center for plasma and fusion science. The Laboratory is managed by Princeton University and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science. An associated mission for PPPL is to provide the highest quality science education in fusion ener... | <urn:uuid:ced89905-2f02-4059-aa3d-43d74a071baf> | 2.53125 | 394 | About (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 24.040054 | 3,128 |
Science & Technology - Posted by Anna Blackaby-Warwick on Monday, October 1, 2012 10:33 - 1 Comment
Electron ring images confirm Landau Levels
U. WARWICK (UK) — Physicists have directly imaged Landau Levels for the first time since Nobel Prize-winner Lev Landau conceived of them in 1930.
Landau Levels are quantum level... | <urn:uuid:9b74d22f-3cdd-4830-8a87-7c890d6e6a6f> | 3.296875 | 466 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 32.175213 | 3,129 |
Researchers reported today that they have sequenced the genome of a brown algal model organism, identifying genetic and genomic features that help explain its evolutionary past and adaptation to its current environment.
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New to GenomeWeb? Register he... | <urn:uuid:2722b373-643d-4dea-bf69-d444a72a18e0> | 2.796875 | 67 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 22.198231 | 3,130 |
why are the product-rules as they are?greenspun.com : LUSENET : quaternions : One Thread
A short historical intro: When Hamilton was thinking about the 3D-complex number x+iy+jz he (1)assumed jj=-1 and (2)added a fourth complex number k so ij=k (et voila, quaternions).
I was wondering why he made these choices (1) and ... | <urn:uuid:e32c2f31-5e2e-4ba3-bf8b-de81949fd5dc> | 2.640625 | 778 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 82.58552 | 3,131 |
Off Chub Cay, Bahamas, Day 3, 1999
With great success finding Midas slitsnails, the team moves over shallower seas ready to search for Adanson's slitsnail. Today Pat and Steven get their chances to dive, along with Jerry and José. The sub dives to around 400 feet along a wall so steep it is sometimes undercut. What in ... | <urn:uuid:8c648be7-7d0d-4847-a2aa-abc3a2e52d8e> | 2.703125 | 582 | Nonfiction Writing | Science & Tech. | 62.835615 | 3,132 |
* Seismic Waves and Seismic Eruption are free demonstration programs available at: binghamton.edu
Transform- two plates slide past each other.
In this aerial view of the San Andreas Fault (transform) the trees in the orchard (dots) have been offset by the slipping of the plates. The Pacific Plate is to the left and the... | <urn:uuid:24596a87-1ff7-4f0f-9532-6a2f892462aa> | 4.25 | 1,871 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 62.71561 | 3,133 |
The following HTML text is provided to enhance online
readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML.
Please use the page image
as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy.
Toward an Integrated Arctic Observing Network
contemporary observing systems, methodologies, and networks,2 in addition ... | <urn:uuid:18f9bd44-bc8a-40ea-bded-77d8002182eb> | 3.03125 | 1,081 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 11.661591 | 3,134 |
Quail eggs are like fingerprints, a new study suggests.
The creamy blue-and-brown speckled eggs, splashed like a toddler's art project, vary among birds but are consistently patterned for individuals.
What's more, in a laboratory experiment, quail camouflaged their eggs according to their personal pattern, picking ligh... | <urn:uuid:4cc315a0-0754-49b7-83ce-eff8cea362c0> | 3.21875 | 695 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 53.030035 | 3,135 |
Tardigrades, or 'water bears
', are microscopic animals that live in soil and other environments. They are among the hardiest
creatures around, able to survive huge doses of radiation, extreme pressure, and being dried out for years. (Click on the image above to watch one in action.)
But can they survive exposure to th... | <urn:uuid:2f395af3-6408-4cc3-81b6-6f4b6736db66> | 3.984375 | 235 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 40.222042 | 3,136 |
Early Warning Sign?
Wed Aug 08 19:03:05 BST 2007 by Luther J. Tallen
Could the vanishing of coral reefs have been an early warning sign of the earthquake that hit in the Indonesian area today (August 8-9, 2007)? Any temp difference in the water prior to the quake?
Sun Aug 19 11:23:11 BST 2007 by Patrick
this is a very ... | <urn:uuid:1b8ade5a-3c87-4485-bead-cb4556552a14> | 2.78125 | 337 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 82.889241 | 3,137 |
A view can become a page or a block. There is no difference in work between a page and a block. A page needs a path to display the page. A block is assigned to a region to display the page. There might be a few seconds different to set them up. After that, you can blocks in far more ways than usually shown in tutorials... | <urn:uuid:b833e175-0f06-496c-90a2-fc2151545197> | 3.421875 | 655 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 58.476772 | 3,138 |
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Continuous functions on metric space, M
If every continuous function on M is bounded, what does this mean?
I am not sure what this function actually is... is it a mapping from M -> M or some other mapping? Is the image of the function in M? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
|Jan30-13, 11:3... | <urn:uuid:23b4cd4f-2124-48ca-8cce-308fdca36eb0> | 2.625 | 347 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 77.32903 | 3,139 |
In an acknowledgement that the private space industry just might have something going for it, NASA is setting aside $30 million to buy information gleaned from future commercial missions to the moon. NASA believes it can learn from these missions and will pay up to $10 million per mission for data that could be useful ... | <urn:uuid:8c7654ae-93a4-43dc-b83e-b0c0d7505aeb> | 2.671875 | 465 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 42.613436 | 3,140 |
Revista Brasileira de Biologia
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ARENZON, A.; PERET, A. C. and BOHRER, M. B. C.. Growth of the annual fish Cynopoecilus melanotaenia (Regan, 1912) based in a temporary water body population in Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil (Cyprinodontiformes, Rivulidae). Rev. Bras. Biol. [online]. 2001, vo... | <urn:uuid:a8ae3737-f436-4eb9-8efa-7f0d7a509bb8> | 2.9375 | 284 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 64.967222 | 3,141 |
Research from the Met Office has shed new light on a link between decadal solar variability and winter climate
in the UK, northern Europe and parts of America.
The study, carried out with Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, shows that low UV output from the sun can contribute to cold winters over part... | <urn:uuid:13fd0edb-7781-4c1b-9373-b41c48e2a3bf> | 3.546875 | 226 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 28.942885 | 3,142 |
2012 shaping as ninth hottest
Average global temperatures have been about 0.45 degrees above the 1961-1990 average of 14.2. Photo: Justin McManus
THE world is on track for its ninth warmest year. Temperatures were below average for the past decade thanks to La Nina's cooling effects but were still higher than long-term... | <urn:uuid:edc25123-ff54-48da-9417-a167c8df5b07> | 3.078125 | 516 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 39.212155 | 3,143 |
Work is the transfer of energy.
In physics we say that work is done on an object when you transfer energy to that object. For introductory thinking, this is the best definition of work.
If you put energy into an object, then you do work on that object.
If a first object is the agent that gives energy to a second object... | <urn:uuid:cf9ab1cd-37ff-4b0f-9f09-763aded75109> | 4.25 | 999 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 65.464616 | 3,144 |
Mesh and bathymetry for the North Sea (left) and resulting tidal range and co-phase lines for the M2 tidal constituent (right).
ICOM is being used to study tidal dynamics in modern and geologically ancient basins. The model can be forced astronomically (the equilibrium tide approach) or using oscillating tidal boundary... | <urn:uuid:898569b1-d935-4d28-90de-1d8ed6773d9b> | 3.234375 | 432 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 39.061429 | 3,145 |
One of my favorite data structures is the binary heap. I first learned about it in my data structures class, and remember marveling at its simplicity and elegance. How could something so simple be so powerful and useful?
For those unfamiliar with the binary heap, it is a relatively simple data structure. It is a binary... | <urn:uuid:d43c4ff6-ff6b-45de-a7dc-036d0b7fef8b> | 3.1875 | 308 | Personal Blog | Software Dev. | 61.139517 | 3,146 |
Scientists believe that a giant asteroid made its way to Earth and was one of the causes leading to the extinction of the dinosaurs. (Nasa)
The top science expert at Nasa has revealed that he knows the best way of dealing with asteroid collisions - prayer.
Charles Bolden, one of the world's leading space experts and a ... | <urn:uuid:d64bf12f-5704-49ff-9ff3-136b901a4ee6> | 3.25 | 711 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 42.29148 | 3,147 |
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Two thousand comets a day collide around nearby star Fomalhaut creating a continually replenished dust belt in the outskirts of the star’s system, according to a new paper recently published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Fomalhaut is a young star. It is twice as massive as the sun and sits... | <urn:uuid:4a0e2602-acf5-4766-9df7-aaf7408dfd1d> | 4.03125 | 757 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 56.471726 | 3,148 |
To study particle physics, you have a strong scientific and mathematical background. But you also need a good imagination, because you’ll be spending a lot of time studying things that you cannot see.
And that’s okay with Dr. Derek Harnett, a physicist who will be the second speaker in the 2011/12 University Lecture Se... | <urn:uuid:2069d273-2425-4112-82d8-37ce3e07f81b> | 2.828125 | 531 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 48.235064 | 3,149 |
Working with Data
This chapter deals with manipulating the data in tables with the statements:
INSERTfor inserting new rows into tables
UPDATEfor updating rows
DELETEfor deleting rows from tables
CALLfor manipulating data by executing procedures.
You must have the appropriate access privileges on the relevant table(s) ... | <urn:uuid:6799e618-5d0e-471f-9044-900d2849ceb4> | 2.609375 | 146 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 27.488 | 3,150 |
A class that wraps a PointF representing a Polygon. The class members include:
- RectangleF Bounds
- float MinimumX
- float MaximumX
- float Minimum Y
- float Maximum Y
- int NumberOfPoints
- bool IsInBounds(PointF pt)
- bool Contains(PointF pt)
- PointF CenterPointOfBounds
- PointF CenterPoint // Not yet implemented
-... | <urn:uuid:5e569e7a-2ecd-49ae-a35d-ee884b91d5fc> | 2.84375 | 194 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 46.765577 | 3,151 |
An astronomical interferometer is an array of telescopes or mirror segments acting together to probe structures with higher resolution by means of interferometry. The benefit of the interferometer is that the angular resolution of the instrument is nearly that of a telescope with the same aperture as a single large ins... | <urn:uuid:bb6bf583-540d-481c-9077-7e60cd5a0cca> | 3.90625 | 3,712 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 40.672505 | 3,152 |
Iranian Researchers Separate Hydrogen from Methane with 100% Efficiency
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian researchers at Kashan University and Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI) separated hydrogen from methane with an efficiency of 99.99% by hybrid synthesizing of a nanoadsorbant.
Hydrogen has numerous applications in... | <urn:uuid:592d5d3c-9ac1-4dea-9fd3-3f8b4fbe17ad> | 2.734375 | 346 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 31.582543 | 3,153 |
Hey, I am trying to prove that:
lim(nth root of n)=1 as n approaches infinity and that
lim(nth root of n+1)=1 as n approaces infinity
I do not know how to go about it. Can anybody help??
Is using the delta-epsilon definition of a limit or a less rigorous method?
Start with considering any function . You can do this bot... | <urn:uuid:7b76af57-c9e3-4598-9600-2df0badf4854> | 2.53125 | 470 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 58.588883 | 3,154 |
Extensive defoliation of deciduous shrubs and trees in Southcentral Alaska has received considerable attention over the last couple of years. Even for those who may not be attentive to what is going on in their natural surroundings, the conspicuous patches of dieback on Skyline and Fuller Lakes Trail on the Kenai Natio... | <urn:uuid:4d0982f9-ea3c-451e-a71c-f74f56fd169a> | 3.25 | 1,166 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 28.501677 | 3,155 |
Scientists have long believed soft corals, one of the many endangered elements of marine life, are only minor contributors to the structure of coral reefs. But that's not true, says new research from Tel Aviv University -- and the preservation of soft corals is essential to the health of our seas.
Joint research by Tel... | <urn:uuid:a86bb386-fc8a-4485-bc0b-8b76f2730282> | 3.984375 | 830 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 33.246572 | 3,156 |
New imaging technology brings trace chemicals into focus (w/ Video)March 11th, 2010 in Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- Arizona State Univeristy scientist N.J. Tao and his colleagues at the Biodesign Institute have hit on a new, versatile method to significantly improve the detection of trace chemicals... | <urn:uuid:6ca91fdf-391f-417e-9a63-10bbb5aff5c1> | 2.6875 | 831 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 22.67072 | 3,157 |
Geostationary satelites are essentially for ever. This is becoming a problem since there are a limited number of places you want to put a geostationary satelite and most of them are full. Any collisions/explosions in geostationary mean debris will also stay there for a long long time.
For low earth orbit satelites it d... | <urn:uuid:a8c95ee9-5551-4d5c-afcb-9d000f72c307> | 2.71875 | 215 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 45.812763 | 3,158 |
CRUST & LITHOSPHERE:
THE ANELASTIC EARTH:
THE MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE:
Most seismologists focus on the elastic properties of the Earth like seimic wave speed. I prefer to examine seismic attenuation (a form of anelastic energy loss) and compare it to seismic velocity, which can help distinquish the cause of seismic anom... | <urn:uuid:240a1c07-9c29-4eb1-a43a-af944893d4e5> | 3.09375 | 1,702 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 28.39484 | 3,159 |
Where Did this Weird Theory Come From?
The inspiration for this theory came from Stephen Hawking's work on black hole entropy. Entropy is the energy in a system that is available to do work. According to the second law of thermodynamics, the entropy of any closed system always increases or stays the same, and in many w... | <urn:uuid:ba42f35a-6d01-4b58-9ec3-e0aac3c35a3f> | 3.421875 | 4,275 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 36.009447 | 3,160 |
MIT Physics News Spotlight
The bouncing gas
Clouds of gases that bounce off each other could help physicists model the behavior of high-temperature superconductors and other unusual materials.
Anne Trafton, MIT News Office
April 14, 2011
Two gas clouds (one red and one blue), each a million times thinner than air, are
... | <urn:uuid:51f01445-d27d-4666-9d9c-e519dfcf726c> | 4.125 | 1,046 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 28.597645 | 3,161 |
Trinidad's Pitch Lake
The Caribbean country of Trinidad and Tobago has a natural wonder of the world - a Pitch Lake. It's a basin of emulsified asphalt. Pauline Newman reports on efforts to study the area and the hope of discovering new forms of life.
Robyn Williams: The Caribbean country of Trinidad and Tobago has its... | <urn:uuid:d654e5b0-0140-433e-9f56-d71f9fd10332> | 2.765625 | 1,701 | Audio Transcript | Science & Tech. | 52.622622 | 3,162 |
Seismology is the scientific study of earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or through other planet-like bodies. The field also includes studies of earthquake effects, such as tsunamis as well as diverse seismic sources such as volcanic, tectonic, oceanic,...
, a microseism
is defined as a ... | <urn:uuid:eb4211a1-e78a-45d6-a65c-fe91f07dc169> | 3.984375 | 1,203 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 38.01347 | 3,163 |
Fascinating article about the physics of lava formations @ Nervous System:
Lava is the molten rock expelled by a volcano during an eruption. Lava flows can have very different properties based on their chemical composition, temperature, eruption rate, crystal content, and bubble content. The current lava flow in Hawaii... | <urn:uuid:f175b3bb-8d9a-4862-ba22-6edfcd191c75> | 4.125 | 271 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 45.618589 | 3,164 |
More Than Meets the Eye: Do Himasthla Sp. B Cercariae Use Chemo-orientation?
Beneath my feet rages a relentless war between predators and prey, parasites and hosts. I start out prostrated in mud, my nose mere inches away from the ground. My knees are sunk almost a foot beneath the surface, making odd squelching noises ... | <urn:uuid:4741d589-1151-4f7d-98aa-6839325338db> | 3.109375 | 3,791 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 46.028763 | 3,165 |
Tracking Back Animal Evolution
|Spiny acritarchs preserved in Doushantuo phosphorites.
Image credit: Virginia Tech
Scientists interested in ancient life have a wealth of fossils and impressions frozen in rocks that they can study from as far back as 540 million years ago - when animals with shells and bones began to be... | <urn:uuid:7e436bfd-1a24-4e7a-bca2-9c9998afd993> | 3.71875 | 1,140 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 24.874468 | 3,166 |
Taipans are large (up to 3 metres in length), fast, highly venomous Australian snakes, one of which, the Fierce Snake, has the most toxic venom of any land species worldwide although it is not the most deadly. The taipan was named by Donald Thompson after the word used by the Wik-Mungkan Aboriginal people of central Ca... | <urn:uuid:efbceadf-8a83-40f1-96c9-55f374868856> | 3.609375 | 1,532 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 56.904936 | 3,167 |
U.S. generates 190 million tons of solid waste a year —
enough to fill a bumper-to-bumper convoy of garbage trucks
halfway to the moon. So why aren't we up to our necks in garbage?
Nature recycles garbage all the time, and this recycling
is essential to the availability of nutrients for living things.
are tiny bacteria... | <urn:uuid:0fc53d20-55fd-460e-8880-7a21fec6408a> | 4.0625 | 357 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 54.505386 | 3,168 |
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...to that of paramagnetic materials. Above a temperature called the Néel temperature, thermal motions destroy the antiparallel arrangement, and t... | <urn:uuid:56001932-e03a-40e7-9758-fa8ac3d9ea7e> | 2.90625 | 144 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 28.413871 | 3,169 |
A 10 m long pipe has an inside radius of 70 mm, an
outsideradius of 80 mm, and is made of stainless steel (k = 15
W/(m° C). Its inside surface isheld at 150° C, while
itsoutside surface is at 30°C. There is no heat generation, and
steady-state conditions hold.Compute the rate at which heat is
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In the last MVC post we looked at Filter Providers but didn’t really describe what filters were. Filters are special classes which can execute some functionality at certain points during each MVC request. Historically most filters have been attributes that you can apply to an action method or a controller class (not al... | <urn:uuid:55fab0cb-2fa7-409d-8229-2bccf447290c> | 3 | 1,221 | Personal Blog | Software Dev. | 41.952358 | 3,171 |
A new advance in X-ray imaging has revealed the dramatic three-dimensional shape of gold nanocrystals, and is likely to shine a light on the structure of other nano-scale materials.
Described today in Nature Communications, the new technique improves the quality of nanomaterial images, made using X-ray diffraction, by ... | <urn:uuid:076c7893-9255-48e3-ab52-d8dc2ba47a1c> | 3.765625 | 794 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 36.027396 | 3,172 |
Creation of the Latent Image on the Film
An emulsion holding grains of photosensitive chemical compounds called silver halides is spread over a film or other material. Light coming through the camera lens from an object being photographed strikes certain areas of the film, rendering the silver halide grains in those ar... | <urn:uuid:f87e1b54-d2a4-42b6-8972-60fb1bb150b3> | 3.5 | 186 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 34.612178 | 3,173 |
News Releases - 2010
Drought and Rising Temperatures Weaken Southwest Forests
Pacific Southwest Research Station/USDA Forest Service
Science that makes a difference. . .
Contact: Sherri Eng, PSW Research Station Public Affairs, firstname.lastname@example.org; (510) 559-6327
ALBANY, CA (December 13, 2010) - Forests in t... | <urn:uuid:81a4cf80-462c-4708-91b0-ac5e7b9d09ce> | 2.984375 | 708 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 33.301549 | 3,174 |
Avoid arbitrary limits on the length or number of any data structure, including file names, lines, files, and symbols, by allocating all data structures dynamically. In most Unix utilities, “long lines are silently truncated”. This is not acceptable in a GNU utility.
Utilities reading files should not drop NUL characte... | <urn:uuid:bdcc8354-cc69-4fdc-8ca4-2fc21828e870> | 2.96875 | 1,057 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 49.407482 | 3,175 |
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(Newser) – Human activity contributed to climate change long before the Industrial Revolution, according to new research. Scientists analyzing ice core samples from Greenland found a spike in emissions of the greenhouse gas methane during a 20... | <urn:uuid:d641dc2f-ac4b-46f7-a8ef-c29ad97364e3> | 3.09375 | 158 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 52.390215 | 3,176 |
[Haskell-cafe] floating point operations and representation
ketil at malde.org
Thu Mar 13 05:12:46 EDT 2008
"Jacob Schwartz" <quark at bluespec.com> writes:
> A test on IEEE computers (x86 and x86-64), shows that for
> a range of 64-bit "double" values, the answers in C do differ (in the
> last bit) if you use "log2(x)... | <urn:uuid:f553b17d-7ae8-4e76-ab0c-e45eaae2ebed> | 2.53125 | 252 | Comment Section | Software Dev. | 60.961179 | 3,177 |
The amount of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere is increasing, mainly because of the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation, according to the World Meteorological Organization. That means that the planet's oceans, natural carbon storage facilities, are absorbing more and more of the gas, which makes them more... | <urn:uuid:f62767a2-7160-45b0-855e-69e34a83f3a5> | 3.375 | 223 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 27.372917 | 3,178 |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (February 6, 2013)—Mathematicians at the University of Central Missouri have found the largest prime number ever identified, but it’s not one easily remembered.
The researchers identified the 17 million-digit number last month as the 48th known Mersenne prime and a different computer system running on ... | <urn:uuid:d559d8bb-1c2a-41d1-bc49-241c3283d396> | 3.0625 | 202 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 53.955326 | 3,179 |
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Image Anon. - Arenicola marina and synaptid holothurians in extremely shallow soft mud. Image width ca 40 cm in foreground.
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What is the shape of a suspended rope? Is there some
function that describes it?
Answer: it's the cosh curve!
y = cosh x
and suspending a rope in front of the transparency projection
so that the rope shadow can be compared!
This may be seen quite dramatically by putting up a
transparency of the catenary
Now, someone ma... | <urn:uuid:79c06ceb-5651-4b5e-9ed7-d8c261aca206> | 3.28125 | 218 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 64.076948 | 3,181 |
Invasive nonnative plants threaten natural resources throughout the National Park System. Nonnative plant species infest an estimated 4,600 new acres (1,863 ha) of federal land each day (National Park Service 1996), and National Park Service (NPS) policy directs resource managers to develop strategies to control or eli... | <urn:uuid:6d3f0788-3a84-48ba-9a79-a82b7851cbbd> | 3.40625 | 405 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 38.382723 | 3,182 |
Thu Oct 21 13:09:11 BST 2010 by Jack Stephens
The author overlooks the numerous cases where similar environmental conditions seem to have led to animals representing different lines of descent converging on very similar looking phenotypes, for example penguins and the great auk. These cases seem to strongly suggest the... | <urn:uuid:c5ee9c17-360c-44fb-89cb-2fdde1be80cd> | 2.875 | 259 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 37.227753 | 3,183 |
Hungarian-born electrical engineer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics
in 1971 for his invention of holography, a system of lensless, three-dimensional
photography that has many applications.
In 1949 Gabor joined the faculty of the Imperial College of Science
and Technology, London, where in 1958 he became professor of... | <urn:uuid:4d14093d-960c-48d6-b1ca-ddcc7179ea36> | 2.796875 | 188 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 42.679625 | 3,184 |
X-Ray and Energy-Loss Spectroscopy
The signals used in energy dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) and electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) are caused by inelastic scattering (involves loss of energy) of electrons as they pass through the sample. These techniques form the basis of analytical microscopy and enable qu... | <urn:uuid:ce3b8c7e-506e-49a0-876c-91e5c4696b39> | 3.25 | 542 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 13.40177 | 3,185 |
Glacier Movement Limits How Fast Sea Level Can Rise
Study finds 3 to 6 feet by 2100 possible
September 18, 2008
The fast motion of glaciers, which can cause large amounts of ice to be dumped off land into the sea, is a wild card in projections of sea level rise, but estimates of its contribution can still be constraine... | <urn:uuid:7bda7e68-16a4-4b26-bac0-9e0747f09268> | 3.625 | 1,101 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 35.073155 | 3,186 |
Emerging Nutrient Crisis Causing Massive New Breakdowns in the Great Lakes
NWF to testify today before U.S. Senate Subcommittee on new report as part of federal examination of nation-wide nutrient pollution epidemic
The National Wildlife Federation today released a report documenting new and massive ecosystem breakdown... | <urn:uuid:e61e430f-9e5e-427e-898f-e9e084c0aa8b> | 3 | 1,219 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 38.66107 | 3,187 |
What is SuperCDMS?
The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search is a collaboration of 18 institutions from the U.S., Canada, and Spain. Our experiment, named SuperCDMS, is currently located in the Soudan Iron Mine in Soudan, MN. We go deep under the earth to shield ourselves from cosmic-ray radiation so that we can use our detecto... | <urn:uuid:ff4994e7-b329-458a-90cc-293a7b81c068> | 3.015625 | 395 | About (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 47.596784 | 3,188 |
orbit: 422,000 km from Jupiter diameter: 3630 km mass: 8.93e22 kg
The pronunciation "EE oh" is also acceptable.
Io was a maiden who was loved by Zeus (Jupiter) and transformed into a heifer in a vain attempt to hide her from the jealous Hera.
Discovered by Galileo and Marius in 1610.
In contrast to most of the moons in... | <urn:uuid:d82d882c-58f0-4e48-90ab-d5a5e9dd2121> | 3.375 | 976 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 48.87087 | 3,189 |
This charming little video demonstrates the principle of resonant frequency using oscillating metronomes. The mechanical wind-up metronomes used worldwide during the dreaded Saturday piano lesson employ an inverted pendulum to keep even time intervals. The resonant frequency of the pendulum is adjusted by moving the ma... | <urn:uuid:0d45f902-4cbf-4795-94f7-c6c44c145371> | 3.5 | 473 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 37.956335 | 3,190 |
Erratic, extreme day-to-day weather puts climate change in new light
Posted November 15, 2011; 03:00 p.m.
The first climate study to focus on variations in daily weather conditions has found that day-to-day weather has grown increasingly erratic and extreme, with significant fluctuations in sunshine and rainfall affect... | <urn:uuid:706568a8-fac6-4d5f-a7ba-3c5a782caab6> | 3.21875 | 2,165 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 28.707055 | 3,191 |
Scientists at the Universities of York and Leeds have made a significant discovery about the cause of the destruction of ozone over oceans.
They have established that the majority of ozone-depleting iodine oxide observed over the remote ocean comes from a previously unknown marine source.
The research team found that t... | <urn:uuid:75616aa5-1b96-41a6-a56f-4cb0087d4401> | 3.5625 | 545 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 13.468415 | 3,192 |
The Eurasian minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus) is a species of freshwater fish. It is a member of the carp family (family Cyprinidae) of order Cypriniformes, and is the type species of genus Phoxinus. It is ubiquitous throughout much of Eurasia, from Britain and Spain to eastern Siberia, predominantly in cold 53.6- 68°F (12″... | <urn:uuid:d581bf7a-51c1-4a34-a2ed-9fda30454870> | 3.46875 | 312 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 48.737127 | 3,193 |
27 January 2012 Last updated at 05:00 ET
material graphene can distil booze, says study
Graphene and its derivatives display many unusual and useful properties
Membranes based on the "miracle material" graphene can be used to distil alcohol, according to a new study in Science journal.
An international team created the... | <urn:uuid:636f3843-c17e-43a0-a2b7-f3068f7a349d> | 3.140625 | 783 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 31.182754 | 3,194 |
Mathematics & Physics articlesPhysicists create new form of matter
MIT scientists have brought a supercool end to a heated race among physicists: They have become the first to create a new type of matter, a gas of atoms that shows high-temperature superfluidity.
Can an electron be in two places at the same time?
In som... | <urn:uuid:9a053eaa-eddc-4c63-b0f4-c0b26d407337> | 3.21875 | 1,355 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 22.505844 | 3,195 |
Scientists have claimed that plant eating dinosaurs developed long necks to gulp down their food without chewing.
This has been a puzzle for researchers wondering how gigantic plant eating dinosaurs known as sauropods got to be so big. Now, a new research has found that guzzling food let the giants get food into their ... | <urn:uuid:e3fdf264-4c3d-4278-a00a-f14615b7ac0f> | 4.03125 | 409 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 43.186091 | 3,196 |
45th Mersenne prime discovered (possibly)
Move over 232,582,657-1. Your day has ended
Distributed computing hasn't folded us a cure for cancer yet, but these projects in which PC users donate their spare processing power to solve scientific problems have unquestionably made major strides in uncovering ridiculously larg... | <urn:uuid:ece499b0-bd8f-4ec3-a832-f3d796abfafd> | 2.90625 | 519 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 50.061168 | 3,197 |
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 3, or GOES-3, is a weather satellite launched in 1978 that has long lost its imaging capability. However, the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) still uses its fully functional communication transponder for the app... | <urn:uuid:15f8ab2f-c386-4d31-badc-66abb00d9a31> | 2.65625 | 193 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 38.253276 | 3,198 |
UT Knoxville and ORNL Researchers Turn Algae into High-Temperature Hydrogen Source
KNOXVILLE — In the quest to make hydrogen as a clean alternative fuel source, researchers have been stymied about how to create usable hydrogen that is clean and sustainable without relying on an intensive, high-energy process that outwe... | <urn:uuid:810e21b5-a2d5-492a-9b27-e316122bbf5b> | 3.546875 | 885 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 24.756189 | 3,199 |