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RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, is a common cold-like virus that can cause severe respiratory illness in young children, older adults, and people with weakened immune systems. RSV is the most common cause of bronchiolitis (inflammation of the small airways) and pneumonia in children under the age of one, and is a ...
Starfish move using tube feet on their undersides. Their feet use seawater to form a hydraulic system. The starfish's vascular system is open and relies on the water around it rather than internal pressure. Starfish can only move outside of water for a short time. A starfish left out of water for too long loses its abi...
What You'll Find in This Section When planning a lesson for a class that includes English language learners (ELLs), it may be difficult to know how to help students at different language levels participate fully in the activities. However, there are a number of steps you can take to help strengthen students' language d...
An endless list of researchers have proven that learning how to play an instrument contributes significantly to a child’s cognitive abilities. For instance, if you’re wondering where else your kids can develop outstanding hand-eye coordination away from violent video games, get them to learn how to play an instrument. ...
According to Science magazine, (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223/768), eight million metric tons of plastic waste enter the oceans every year. The ocean now has at least 700 pieces of plastic for every person on earth. Is there any way we could ever clean up this mess? A twenty-one-year-old man from the N...
A switch is a multi-port bridge, meaning that it is an active element working on layer 2 of the OSI model. The switch analyzes the frames coming in on its entry ports and filters the data in order to focus solely on the right ports (this is called switching and is used in switched networks). As a result, the switch can...
Lincoln created Thanksgiving Day in the middle of the Civil War by Bob Schwartz On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a Thanksgiving Day proclamation, creating the modern holiday we celebrate. At that moment, the deadly American Civil War was raging. Two cultures, two nations where once there was one. An...
Family Communications \| Week 8\| Resources \| Exercise 1 Read through the scenarios of bringing someone new home one day and reflect on what it might feel like for a child to have this happen in the form of a new sibling. The responses parents have can be related to the sibling relationship. An important part of addressi...
The Bill of Rights and Due Process Covers search and seizure, rights of the accused, due process of law, jury trials, and protection from cruel and unusual punishment guaranteed in the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments. What Is a Reasonable Expectation of Privacy? The Constitutional principle of due process, ...
Malnutrition is a serious condition that occurs when a person’s diet doesn't contain the right amount of nutrients. It means "poor nutrition" and can refer to: This topic focuses on undernutrition. Read about obesity for more about the problems associated with overnutrition. Common signs of malnutrition include: Read m...
Scientists Say A Fluctuating Jet Stream May Be Causing Extreme Weather Events A new study suggests that the polar jet stream has been fluctuating more than normal as it passes over the parts of the Northern Hemisphere, and that's affecting weather in Europe and North America. The jet stream is like a river of wind that...
The spread of humans out of Africa through the Middle East may have been helped along by a very ordinary substance: dust. More specifically, the silty sediment known as loess seems to have played a crucial role in making the Southern Levant, on the east coast of the Mediterranean, such a fertile and hospitable corridor...
Russ Allen: Harwich’s Hidden History 6.5 From their earliest days, Cape Codders engaged in the enslavement of human beings. Cape ships and ship captains participated in the “Triangular Trade” which from the late 16th to early 19th centuries carried slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa, the Car...
An insulated wire is a type of electrical conductor that has been wrapped in an insulating material, typically rubber, plastic or enamel. The purpose of the insulation is to protect the wire from damage and prevent electrical shorts. There are many different types of insulated wires available for a variety of applicati...
Many people believe that a massive volcanic eruption on the Greek island of Santorini is what inspired the legend of Atlantis. It is thought that the eruption occurred sometime between 1627 and 1600 B.C. While the exact year of the eruption is not known, a new study of bean weevils found in an ancient storage jar near ...
Phonics is the study and use of sound/ letter correspondences and syllable patterns to help students identify written words. Phonics instruction teaches students the relationship between sounds and letters. Phonics is the method of teaching children to link phonemes to the symbol it represents to form a grapheme, a sym...
The task entails comparing and contrasting between two pictures as presented in the museum. The pictures include the one of Woman with a dog while the other contains Woman with a Lute. The respective artists present their works in a manner that indicate in-depth knowledge in the field. They both use proper paintings an...
This download includes 20 lessons’ worth of material, including Powerpoints and supporting resources for each session. The lessons are designed to prepare students for the Shakespeare question in their GCSE English Literature exam. In the exam students will be expected to: - Read, understand and respond to texts. Use t...
"Three Stones Back": Using Informational Text to Enhance Understanding of Ball Don't Lie - Preview \| - Standards \| - Resources & Preparation \| - Instructional Plan \| - Related Resources \| As part of their study of Matt de la Peña's novel Ball Don't Lie, students re-read a selected passage closely, focusing on understan...
The evolution of man began about 15 million years ago when the first known man walked this earth. Humans today developed through many stages of evolution from primates that are now extinct. This evolutionary process from the primates who walked on all four limbs to the humans today who walk on two hind limbs has been a...
Scientists have added up the cost of losing a nights sleep. By measuring the actual number of calories the body expends to fuel an all-nighter versus a good night’s sleep, researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder calculate that a full night of sleep helps the body conserve as much energy as is in a glass ...
Naturalization records can be a treasure trove of information for a researcher, provided they are there. Here is a quick breakdown of how naturalization records came about and evolved, where the records might be, and what information might be found on them. It is important to remember that the United States of America ...
In July 1775 the Second Continental Congress established the US postal system. Enslaved men, who worked for transportation contractors were among the first postal service mail carriers. Women began carrying mail in 1845. The first black woman to carry mail for the United States postal service was Mary Fields, “Stagecoa...
Chalk up more remarkable skills for carbon nanotubes. Researchers at MIT have discovered that carbon nanotubes can convert heat into electricity with surprisingly efficient results. The amount of power released in the experiments greatly exceeded the mathematical predictions. Potentially, the discovery could lead to au...
The Instruction Cycle In order for a single instruction to be executed by the CPU, it must go through the instruction cycle (also sometimes referred to as the fetch-execute cycle). While this cycle can vary from CPU to CPU, they typically consist of the following stages: - Memory Access - Registry Write-Back In this ar...
If optimists see the world through rose-colored lenses, some birds see it through ultraviolet ones. Avians have evolved ultraviolet vision quite a few times in history, a new study finds. Birds depend on their color vision for selecting mates, hunting or foraging for food, and spotting predators. Until recently, ultrav...
The designs featured in this collection typically lead to new products or solutions to problems. This example is highly unusual in that it was discovered in the weevil in 2011, long after its application in technology. The reference is to metal screws and nuts, used worldwide by the trillions. These fasteners are stron...
Research indicates that children's fears vary according to age, maturation, and previous learning experiences. Four major fears common in children are: death, darkness, animals, and abandonment. Another important aspect of children's fears is that they may be intensified when adults refuse or are reluctant to discuss t...
Describing Motion with Position vs. Time Graphs Graphing Motion from the Shockwave Studios is an excellent accompanying activity to this page.Shockwave Studios Give your students a challenge with the Two Stage Rocket activity from the Shockwave Studios.Treasures from TPF Need ideas? Explore The Physics Front's treasure...
Radar bounces radio waves off water particles in clouds. Click on image for full size Radar is important to weather forecasters because it can detect rain and hail. The radar bounces radio waves off water particles in clouds. A computer measures how long it takes for the radio waves to reflect back and then uses the ti...
Understanding Barrett's Esophagus What is Barrett's Esophagus? Barrett’s esophagus is a condition in which the lining of the esophagus changes, becoming more like the lining of the small intestine rather than the esophagus. This occurs in the area where the esophagus is joined to the stomach. It is believed that the ma...
The Sun Pyramid was extensively excavated in the first decade of this century by Leopordo Batres. Since that time, two tunnels have been excavated into the core of the pyramid, providing more information about its chronology and substructure. Another extensive excavation by INAH, directed by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma in ...
From Ohio History Central The Methodist Church is a Christian religious organization. The Methodist Church originated in 1729, at the University of Oxford in England. A group of students met to study Christian religious subjects. They followed a very methodical manner to celebrate their faith, and critics referred to t...
Newton introduced the concept of an absolute space as a necessary ingredient in the definition of acceleration and the interpretation and use of F = ma. This is a hard concept for many to swallow in view of the fact that we experience, in our everyday lives, that positions and velocities are relative. Certainly Newton ...
In Part One we took a look at what data was available for “back radiation”, better known as Downward Longwave Radiation, or DLR. And we saw that around many locations the typical DLR was in the order of 300 W/m2, and it didn’t decrease very much at night. In Part Two we looked at several measured spectra of DLR which c...
The Difference Between Class 1, Class 2 & Class 3 Recalls There are three classes of recall used by the FDA and USDA: Class 1, Class 2 and Class 3, often represented with Roman numerals I, II and III respectively. While both the FDA and USDA have their own definitions of product recall classes, they follow the same gen...
\|\|The independent variable is plotted on the abscissa (also called the x-axis or horizontal axis), while the dependent variable is plotted on the ordinate (also called the y-axis or vertical axis). The dependent variable is the one whose value changes as a result of changes in the independent variable. In our example, ...
The civil strife that followed the classical period (from c.500 B.C.) placed the old gods on trial. Often the gods did not answer with the visible and immediate rewards that were expected. Although the Homeric gods had distinctive personalities, their reality still had to be accepted intellectually. This form of religi...
On July 4, 1776, members of the Second Continental Congress gathered in the modest enclosures of Independence Hall to declare the birth of what would become the greatest nation the world had ever known. As cannons roared throughout the eastern seaboard and armies marched across endless fields, many of history’s most in...
Each of the three RiverXchange curriculum units features hands-on activities that reinforce one or more key water concepts known as The Big Water Questions. These questions are intentionally broad — such as Is every place in the world part of a watershed? — to encourage students to reach for deeper meaning. Each broad ...
We can learn a great deal about the overall behavior of propulsion systems using the integral form of the momentum equation. The equation is the same as that used in fluid mechanics. a) Inertial (labeled with subscript “I” in diagram at right) b) Fixed to vehicle (labeled with subscript “V” in diagram at right). Moves ...
Testbed for Remote Sensing You have a scientific instrument that has never been tested in space. You need to experiment and tinker and calibrate to get everything just right. You must make sure your gear can survive the extremes of a launch and of orbit. You have managers with limited dollars to spend and a wise instin...
What can go faster than the speed of light? We’ve all learned this from an early age: nothing. And now IBM has developed a chip that makes it easier to shuttle data about using pulses of light instead of electrical signals. The chip offers a way to move large amounts of information between processors in computer server...
- bone pain - bone breaks - a swollen liver and spleen - yellow spots in the eyes. Gaucher disease is an inherited condition in which your body does not store fatty materials (called lipids) correctly. Fatty substances can build up around your vital organs, including your liver, spleen, lungs, bones, and brain. Gaucher...
This Month in Physics History January 1998: The accelerating expansion of the universe In the mid-1990s, two competing teams began observing supernovas with the goal of pinning down the rate at which the expansion of the universe was slowing down. Much to everyone’s surprise, they found just the opposite: the expansion...
Whole foods are minimally processed or completely unaltered foods. This means the food is unrefined and in its pure form, just the way it was grown. According to Wikipedia, these foods are defined as “foods that are unprocessed and unrefined, or processed and refined as little as possible, before being consumed.” The m...
Australopithesis africanus reconstruction Australopithecus africanus lived between about 3.0 and 2.1 million years ago in southern Africa and had a combination of human and ape-like features. This species, the first in the Australopithecus group to be named, led to the widespread recognition that our early relatives st...
\|Of the following, which is not a member of the flora family? Epiphytes are plants that grow on other plants for mechanical support, but do not absorb nutrients from their hosts. Ferns, bromeliads, and cacti are all epiphytes, but the most common and one of the most beautiful epiphytes of the tropical rainforest is the...
To explore data sets and statistics in baseball. At the middle-school level, students can build on previous experience to delve into statistics in greater detail. Students should be focused on the entire process, including formulating key questions; collecting and organizing data; representing the data using graphs and...
Mosquitoes use their sense of smell to find human victims. In many parts of the world, a mosquito bite brings more than just an itchy bump - you can get malaria, a sometimes deadly disease. Researchers are looking at the odors that attract mosquitoes in hopes of using that information to ward off the disease-carrying i...
What Is Photovoltaic Solar Energy? PV Panels: Image courtesy of Wikipedia When it comes to solar energy, we all know there’s a lot of it just waiting to be harnessed. After all, the sun never stops shining. Even when it’s cloudy out, UV rays are still beaming down to Earth. But, how do we actually turn the sun’s rays i...
The term Genocide was coined by Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944, whose family was one of the victims of the Jewish Holocaust. By defining this term, Prof. Lemkin sought to describe Nazi politics of systematic murder, violence and cruelty and atrocities committed against the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire i...
Frequency response is a specification used in amplifiers, pre-amplifiers, CD players, tape decks and other audio components to measure how uniformly it reproduces sounds from the lowest tones to the highest. An amplifier or other component should preserve the loudness relationship between various instruments and voices...
\|The following pretest is designed to give assessment information to the teacher in order to place students in small instructional groups. As such it only measures a sample of the objectives for this strand. Measuring all objectives would create a cumbersome test that could reduce its validity (see Number Operations an...
Asteroids are usually detected optically, but the typical asteroid is quite dark and usually absorbs ten times more Solar radiation than it reflects. The absorbed power goes into heating the asteroid, and this heat is then radiated away as infrared radiation primarily in the 12 and 23 micron WISE bands. As a result, WI...
Canada lynx, American lynx Due to its snowy habitat, the Canada lynx has adapted by growing a thick coat and snowshoes. Canada lynx live for up to 15 years. Body length: 65-100cm, Tail length: 10-15cm, Shoulder height: 50-75cm, Weight: male: 10.7kg, female: 8.9kg. Canada lynx are smaller than the European lynx with a s...
As we celebrate Independence Day, let’s think for a few minutes about the words that were principally drafted by 33-year-old Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, which resulted in the Declaration of Independence — our nation’s most cherished symbol of liberty. In so many unforgettable phrases, Jefferson ...
Coral Fighting Back Corals are marine animals typically living in compact colonies of many identical individual polyps. The group includes the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton. Coral reefs are under stress around the world often due to climate ch...
(c) Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield MA. All rights reserved. Contact us for information about using this image. Slavery existed throughout the colonies before the American Revolution. The relatively low numbers of slaves in New England compared to other colonies was not due to antislavery sentiments. L...
Natural Features & Ecosystems The boundaries of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve encompass an extensive and diverse North Pacific coastal ecological community or "biome." Ice fields, expansive river and stream systems, and tidewater glaciers are significant natural features that influence what plants and animals ...
IB Mathematics (HL)/Statistics A statistic is a single number that represents or helps to describe one aspect of a data set. By calculating a statistic, you summarise the data and lose detail. Usually, this means you cannot recreate the original data, even from a collection of statistics. Examples of statistics include...
It is well known that Indian music is based on an oral tradition. However, it is often erroneously presumed that this oral tradition precluded any musical notation. This is not the case; musical notation in India extends back to the Vedas. Musical notaton, known as swar lipi has existed in India from ancient Vedic age ...
Asha de Vos' mission is to scientifically understand and effectively protect the blue whales around Sri Lanka and to inspire the next generation of marine biologists who will take over from where she leaves off. Blue whales are the largest animals ever known to have lived on Earth. These magnificent marine mammals rule...
The boreal forests in the north of Canada, Russia and other countries that ring the Arctic burn every summer after lightning strikes their towering trees, releasing tons of carbon dioxide into the air as they turn to ash and charcoal in the flames. Some scientists have argued, however, that this climate-changing natura...
The Mariner's Astrolabe was used to determine the latitude of a ship at sea by measuring the noon altitude of the Sun or the meridian altitude of a star of known declination (photo courtesy Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum).. It was not possible to determine longitude at sea in the early days of transoceanic navi...
Deviations from normal sea surface temperatures (left) and sea surface heights (right) at the peak of the 2009-2010 central-Pacific El Niño. The warmest temperatures and highest sea levels were located in the central equatorial Pacific. A relatively new type of El Niño, featuring warmer waters in a different part of th...
An additional resource on the British Library's collection of medieval manuscripts is available on our Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts. Art, music and literature blossomed in the Middle Ages, producing some of the most important works of Western civilisation. Compared to today, few people were able to read and wri...
Deep Water Oyster Banks The discovery of deep water oyster banks on the French continental margin may indicate the presence of a unique hydrodynamic environment and could change the current understanding of oceans past. On an expedition in the Bay of Biscay off the coast of France, the ROV Genesis, transmitted video ob...
Ball A has stopped moving while reaching at the ground. According to the law of conservation of energy that energy must be conserved. Part of energy of ball A is transferred to ball B, causing it to be raised to a higher final position. The remaining energy of the ball A is lost to the surface of the hill as heat. This...
A farmer has a flat field and two sons who will each inherit half of the field. The farmer wishes to build a stone wall to divide the field in two so each son inherits the same area. Stone walls are. . . . This article for teachers describes an activity which encourages meaningful data collection, display and interpret...
The American-Vietnam War was one of the bloodiest and most unpopular wars in Western history. During World War II, Japan invaded and occupied the then-French colony Vietnam, leading to a period of brutality and unrelenting warfare. The Viet Minh was formed to defend the country against the invading Japanese. After the ...
Champaign, Ill. – Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have successfully modeled the spectacular landscapes seen at geothermal hot springs. In work reported in Physical Review Letters on June 27, physics professor Nigel Goldenfeld and graduate students Pak Yuen Chan and John Veysey present a the...
Fossils (from Latin fossus, literally "having been dug up") are the preserved remains or traces of animals (also known as zoolites), plants, and other organisms from the remote past. The totality of fossils, both discovered and undiscovered, and their placement in fossiliferous (fossil-containing) rock formations and s...
A section of the Guzman stairway at El Palmar. Ancient Mayan writing continues to intrigue modern researchers and is now believed ~ through the use of magnificent pieces of art ~ to have been an important social act by which new kings established their place in their culture’s lineage. The Maya told the stories of thei...
Click on the image to download the high resolution tiff file (300 MB) This is a mosaic of the images covering the entire sky as observed by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), part of its All-Sky Data Release. The sky can be thought of as a sphere that surrounds us in three dimensions. To make a map of the ...
A combination of climate change and habitat destruction will significantly threaten 400 to 900 bird species by 2050, according to researchers who have carried out a global analysis of the effects of human activities on land-dwelling birds. By the end of the century, the list will be roughly twice as long. The birds at ...
The earliest maps were simple representations of the landscape of ‘home’ scratched on to clay tablets. Several thousand years later, powerful satellites allow highly accurate maps to be made by anyone with access to a computer and an internet connection. The basic purposes of the map remain the same, however: to allow ...
The Seminole Wars First, some background After the American Revolution (1776-1783), Spain regained control of Florida from Britain as part of the Treaty of Paris. When the British evacuated Florida, Spanish colonists as well as settlers from the newly formed United States came pouring in. Many of these new residents we...
Schizophrenia is a long-term mental health condition that causes a range of different psychological symptoms. These include: - hallucinations – hearing or seeing things that do not exist - delusions – unusual beliefs that are not based on reality - changes in behaviour Doctors describe schizophrenia as a psychotic illn...
The word “nebula” usually refers to any patch that glows diffusely. That is to say that a nebula has the smooth appearance resulting from diffuse gas as opposed to stellar content. Until their true nature was understood, galaxies were referred to as nebulae because individual stars were difficult to resolve in them. Tw...
The Central African rainforest is home to some of the world’s most spectacular wildlife, including gorillas, chimpanzees and forest elephants. The planet’s second largest tropical rainforest ecosystem, it also plays an important role in slowing down global climate change because the forest actually absorbs greenhouses ...
Pinkeye (Conjunctivitis) Directory Pinkeye, also called conjunctivitis, is redness and swelling of the thin tissue lining the eyelids and the white part of the eye. Pinkeye is common among children, but may occur at any age. It is most often caused by a virus, which can be easily spread to other people. Other common ca...
Basic Computer Networking Concepts Computer Networking is basically the process of connecting two or more computers or devices, using hardware and software, so that data can be transferred and shared between them. There are different types of networking, for instance there are LANs (local area networks) and WANs (wide ...
It has been a long journey for the latest shipment of seeds to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The vault, built into a Norwegian mountain near the North Pole, is the final defense for agriculture in the face of growing populations, a changing climate and rising threats to food security. And the vault now contains the w...
The amount of light is that reaches the Earth from a distant object depends on a variety of factors; the distance to the object, the amount of light the object is giving off in all directions, and the amount of intervening material that is blocking some of the light from reaching us here on earth. By far the two most i...
The Phoenix lander was launched in August 2007, and landed on 25 May 2008 on the icy northern pole of Mars between 65 and 75 north latitude. The region is comparable to the permafrost regions of the Earth. Phoenix is designed to study the history of water and habitability potential in the Martian arctic’s ice-rich soil...
peninsula, northern Greece, and a nomos (department) terminating in (east-west) the three fingerlike promontories of Kassandra, Sithonia, and Ayion Oros (Mount Athos). The promontories were once islands, and their isthmuses consequently are composed of loose sediments through which the Kassandra Canal was cut (1937). I...
20 June 2008—Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, say they’ve made an experimental integrated circuit that operates using excitons—basically energized electrons bound to positively charged counterparts called holes, which form when light hits a semiconductor. The group’s results were detailed 19 June...
The Wintu were sedentary foragers who hunted, fished and gathered wild plants. Hunting and fishing were the primary responsibility of the men while women gathered wild plant foods and basket making materials (Chase-Dunn, Clewett, and Sundahl). Although deer and acorns were the primary food sources, a wide variety of ot...
Nullification Crisis of 1828 to 1834 Nullification. During the nullification crisis of 1828 to 1834, South Carolina planter politicians formulated a new brand of slavery-based politics that would culminate in the formation of the southern confederacy. The crisis, which began as a dispute over federal tariff laws, becam...
Introduction to Patterning Lesson 1 of 8 Objective: Students will be able to create AB patterns. To introduce the concept of patterns and how to extend them, I like to start with a simple AB pattern. We start off the lesson by watching a brief video (there is an ad that will need to be skipped over): After we watch the...
No heirs apparent Less than a century after King Edgar's coronation at Bath Abbey in 973, the Anglo-Saxon state was overthrown by the Normans in 1066. But, importantly, its administrative structures were not swept away. And the fact that they remained meant that, in effect, the Anglo-Saxon state formed the basis of the...
It may not be a big surprise to learn that children who learn philosophical thinking are more confident and patient, but new evidence shows that philosophy lessons can also improve reading and maths skills A programme to teach young children the basics of philosophical thinking in UK schools has been shown to help them...
This Java programming tutorial will teach you the methods for writing program to calculate swap of two numbers. Swapping is used where you want to interchange the values. This program will help you to increase your programming ability. In this program we will see how we can swap two numbers. We can do this by using a t...
Converso means a descendant of a family or individual that was forced to convert to another religion, usually Catholicism in the sense of the Spanish usage. The other term used commonly in Hebrew is bnai anousim (children of the forced). MADRID (EJP)---Historian Abraham Haim believes that Miguel de Cervantes’ classic "...
Create a Word Problem In this word problem instructional activity, students study the given addition and subtraction problems. Students then create a word problem for each one. 3 Views 9 Downloads Subtracting Mixed Numbers (Unlike Denominators) Young mathematicians demonstrate their ability to subtract mixed numbers by...
lizabeth I was born on September 7, 1533 at Greenwich Palace, London, England, an estate of her Father, King Henry VIII. Elizabeth's mother was Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth became Queen of England in 1558 and reigned until her death in 1603. Her reign is often called the Golden Age of England because it ...
By then, Indian Buddhism was already over 500 years old, but the faith didn't begin to flourish in China until the decline of the Han Dynasty and an end to its strict Confucian beliefs. Within the Buddhist philosophy grew two main divisions. There were those that followed the traditional Theravada Buddhism, which invol...
Why aren't birds larger? Fifteen-kilogram swans hold the current upper size record for flying birds, although the extinct Argentavis of the Miocene Epoch in Argentina is estimated to have weighed 70 kilograms, the size of an average human. In a forthcoming article in PLoS Biology, Sievert Rohwer, and his colleagues at ...
If you lived in or visited Great Britain and northwest Europe during the summers of 2007 through 2012 you probably remember how rainy they were. Research just published by the science journal, “Environmental Research Letters” has added a new theory as a cause for the extraordinary soggy summers. The study found that a ...

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