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Biological constraints However, without any clear idea of any of these mechanisms, deducing them from mere patterns of stasis as deduced from phylogenetic patterns or the fossil record remains problematic. In addition, the terminology used to describe constraints has led to confusion. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6920635 |
Noyes Laboratory of Chemistry The William Albert Noyes Laboratory of Chemistry, located at 505 S. Mathews Avenue in Urbana, Illinois on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was built in 1902 as the "New Chemical Laboratory", and was designed by Nelson Strong Spencer in the Richardsonian Romanes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6921014 |
Noyes Laboratory of Chemistry It added 39,000 square feet at the cost of $335,000, and in 1951 the East Chemistry Annex was added to the complex, at the cost of $5.9 million. Notes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6921014 |
Antonei Csoka Antonei Benjamin Csoka, Ph.D. is a biogerontologist at Howard University who works on the molecular biology of aging, regenerative medicine and epigenetics. Dr. Csoka earned a bachelor's degrees at Newcastle University in Genetics. He has a master's in Molecular Pathology from University of Leicester and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6922993 |
Ebullioscopic constant In thermodynamics, the ebullioscopic constant relates molality to boiling point elevation. It is the ratio of the latter to the former: A formula to compute the ebullioscopic constant is: Through the procedure called ebullioscopy, a known constant can be used to calculate an unknown molar mass. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6924337 |
Atmospheric Research is a scientific journal dealing with the part of the atmosphere where meteorological events occur; intended for atmospheric scientists (such as meteorologists and climatologists), aerosol scientists, and hydrologists. It is a highly international journal with attention given to all processes extend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6936195 |
Band emission Band emission, is the fraction of the total emission from a blackbody that is in a certain wavelength interval or band. For a prescribed temperature, T and the spectral interval from 0 to λ, is the ratio of the total emissive power of a black body from 0 to λ to the total emissive power over the entire sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6937695 |
Joseph Forshaw Joseph Michael Forshaw is an Australian ornithologist, and expert on parrots. He was the former head of wildlife conservation for the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6948556 |
Muscle arms are body wall muscle (BWM) membrane extensions that connect the BWMs to the motor axons of the dorsal and ventral nerve cords in the nematode worm "C. elegans". were first described in other nematode species by Anton Schneider (1831 – 1890) in his "Monographie der Nematoden", published in 1866. Subsequent w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6949113 |
Clem Coetzee Clem Coetsee (c. 1939 – 7 September 2006) was a Zimbabwean conservationist. He developed new methods of big game conservation. Coetsee was at the forefront of the campaign to de-horn rhinos under sedation, to make them safe from poachers who kill for the horn. He also pioneered the practice of managing ele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6951827 |
Grotrian diagram A Grotrian diagram, or term diagram, shows the allowed electronic transitions between the energy levels of atoms. They can be used for one-electron and multi-electron atoms. They take into account the specific selection rules related to changes in angular momentum of the electron. The diagrams are name... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6962132 |
Gauss-Matuyama reversal The Gauss-Matuyama Reversal was a geologic event approximately 2.58 million years ago when the Earth's magnetic field underwent reversal. This event, which separates the Piacenzian from the Gelasian and marks the start of the Quaternary, is useful in dating sediments. The event is marked by the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6982510 |
Kun Yang (), born 1967, is a Chinese physicist. In 1994 he got his Ph.D. in the condensed matter theory from the Indiana University. Three years later he worked as a postdoc at Princeton University and two years later became Sherman Fairchild's senior research fellow at California Institute of Technology. He joined the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6983898 |
Discrete optimized protein energy DOPE, or Discrete Optimized Protein Energy, is a statistical potential used to assess homology models in protein structure prediction. DOPE is based on an improved reference state that corresponds to noninteracting atoms in a homogeneous sphere with the radius dependent on a sample nat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6987160 |
Business Roundtable The (BRT) is a non-profit association based in Washington, D.C. whose members are chief executive officers of major U.S. companies. Unlike the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, whose members are entire businesses, BRT members are exclusively CEOs. BRT promotes public policy favorable to business interests s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7005392 |
Business Roundtable " On August 19, 2019, the group updated its decades-old definition of the purpose of a corporation, doing away with its bedrock principle that shareholder interests must be placed above all else. The statement, signed by nearly 200 chief executive officers from major U.S. corporations, makes a "fund... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7005392 |
Business Roundtable In 1993, the Roundtable lobbied for NAFTA and against any strong side agreements on labor and the environment. It provided the money and leadership for the main pro-NAFTA lobby. The Roundtable also successfully opposed changes in corporate governance that would have made boards of directors and CEOs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7005392 |
Business Roundtable After the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 was signed into law in January 2002, the Roundtable issued a press release stating that it had "strongly supported passage of the legislation" and was "actively working with states on implementation." The also acts as a major lobby that aims to extend or ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7005392 |
Business Roundtable According to the letter, a survey of chief financial officers and corporate treasurers "underscores the urgent need for the end-user provisions" in this bill because "eighty-six percent of respondents indicated the fully collateralizing over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives would adversely impact busin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7005392 |
Business Roundtable " Former US secretary of labor and professor of public policy at Berkeley University, Robert Reich, accused both Corporate social responsibility, and the Business Roundtable's commitment to it, of being a "con". Citing Jeff Bezos, Mary Barra and Dennis Muilenburg (former Boeing CEO), all Business Ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7005392 |
Alexander Nikolayevich Lebedev (1869–1937) was a Russian biochemist. He is known for his early experiments on the biochemical basis of behavior. Lebedev apprenticed as a student with physiologist and psychologist Ivan Pavlov, becoming familiar with various techniques involved used in behavioral psychology. Lebedev deve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7005552 |
Biotechnology in pharmaceutical manufacturing Modern pharmaceutical manufacturing techniques frequently rely upon biotechnology. Amongst the earliest uses of biotechnology in pharmaceutical manufacturing is the use of recombinant DNA technology to modify "Escherichia coli" bacteria to produce human insulin, which was p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7011824 |
Biotechnology in pharmaceutical manufacturing Production of a single year's supply of human growth hormone required up to fifty pituitary glands, creating significant shortages of the hormone. In 1979, scientists at Genentech produced human growth hormone by inserting DNA coding for human growth hormone into a plasmid ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7011824 |
Biotechnology in pharmaceutical manufacturing However, if the cDNA reverse transcribed from the mRNA for human growth hormone were inserted directly into the plasmid inserted into the escherichia coli, the bacteria would translate regions of the gene that are not translated in humans, thereby producing a "pre-hormone c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7011824 |
Biotechnology in pharmaceutical manufacturing The known sequence of Factor IX RNA was then used to search for the gene coding for Factor IX in a library of the DNA found in the human liver, since it was known that blood clotting factors are produced by the human liver:A unique oligonucleotide... homologous to Factor IX... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7011824 |
Biotechnology in pharmaceutical manufacturing Unlike the analogous process of transformation in bacteria, transfected DNA is not ordinarily integrated into the cell's genome, and is therefore not usually passed on to subsequent generations via cell division. Thus, in order to obtain a "stable" transfection, a gene whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7011824 |
Biotechnology in pharmaceutical manufacturing For instance, pigs that produce human hemoglobin have been created. While blood from such pigs could not be employed directly for transfusion to humans, the hemoglobin could be refined and employed to manufacture a blood substitute. Bristol-Myers Squibb manufactures paclita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7011824 |
Swan band Swan bands are a characteristic of the spectra of carbon stars, comets and of burning hydrocarbon fuels. They are named for the Scottish physicist William Swan, who first studied the spectral analysis of radical diatomic carbon (C) in 1856. Swan bands consist of several sequences of vibrational bands scattere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7021041 |
National Botanical Research Institute The (NBRI) is a research institute of CSIR in Lucknow. It is engaged in the field of taxonomy and modern biology. Originally conceptualised and set up as the National Botanic Gardens (NBG) by Professor Kailas Nath Kaul on behalf of the State Government of Uttar Pradesh, it was take... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7029928 |
Endmember An endmember (also end-member or end member) in mineralogy is a mineral that is at the extreme end of a mineral series in terms of purity. Minerals often can be described as solid solutions with varying compositions of some chemical elements, rather than as substances with an exact chemical formula. There may... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7043822 |
Ideally hard superconductor An ideally hard superconductor is a type II superconductor material with an infinite pinning force. In the external magnetic field it behaves like an ideal diamagnet if the field is switched on when the material is in the superconducting state, so-called "zero field cooled" (ZFC) regime. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7043844 |
Kari Enqvist Kari-Pekka Enqvist (born February 16, 1954 in Lahti, Finland) is a professor of cosmology in the Department of Physical Sciences at the University of Helsinki. Enqvist was awarded his PhD in theoretical physics in 1983. Enqvist is the chairman of the scientific advisory board of Skepsis ry (a Finnish scept... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7044567 |
Geocorona The geocorona is the luminous part of the outermost region of the Earth's atmosphere, the exosphere. It is seen primarily via far-ultraviolet light (Lyman-alpha) from the Sun that is scattered from neutral hydrogen. It extends to at least 15.5 Earth radii and probably up to about 100 Earth radii. The geocoron... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7053593 |
Eva Nogales (born in Madrid, Spain) is a biophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is head of the Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7057536 |
Eva Nogales She joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a staff scientist in 1995 and became an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1998. In 2000 she became an investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. As cryo-EM techniques ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7057536 |
Grand Rapids Amateur Astronomical Association The (or "GRAAA") is an astronomy group located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was formed in 1955 by an enthusiastic group of individuals led by businessman James C. Veen, with a love of astronomy and science. Veen initially provided a meeting place in his office, but died in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7060139 |
Grand Rapids Amateur Astronomical Association Meetings are held monthly, in the warmer months at the Veen Observatory, and currently (2013) at Schuler Books and Music in the city during the rest of the season. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7060139 |
Petroleum geologist A petroleum geologist is an earth scientist who works in the field of petroleum geology, which involves all aspects of oil discovery and production. Petroleum geologists are usually linked to the actual discovery of oil and the identification of possible oil deposits or leads. It can be a very labor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7070643 |
NGC 5474 is a peculiar dwarf galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It is one of several companion galaxies of the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101), a grand-design spiral galaxy. Among the Pinwheel Galaxy's companions, this galaxy is the closest to the Pinwheel Galaxy itself. The gravitational interaction between and the Pinwhe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7078422 |
Agroinfiltration is a method used in plant biology and especially lately in plant biotechnology to induce transient expression of genes in a plant, or isolated leaves from a plant, or even in cultures of plant cells, in order to produce a desired protein. In the method a suspension of "Agrobacterium tumefaciens" is int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7090906 |
Agroinfiltration In this procedure, leaf disks, leaves, or whole plants are submerged in a beaker containing the solution, and the beaker is placed in a vacuum chamber. The vacuum is then applied, forcing air out of the intercellular spaces within the leaves via the stomata. When the vacuum is released, the pressure di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7090906 |
Agroinfiltration Transient expression in cultured plant cell packs is a new procedure, recently patented by the Fraunhofer Institute IVV, Germany. For this technique, suspension cultured cells of tobacco (e.g.: NT1 or BY2 cell lines of "Nicotiana tabacum") are immobilised by filtration onto a porous support to form a w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7090906 |
Agroinfiltration In order to defend itself against viruses and other pathogens that introduce foreign nucleic acids into their cells, plants have developed a system of post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) where small interfering RNAs are produced from double-stranded RNA in order to create a sequence specific deg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7090906 |
Uranium tailings are a waste byproduct (tailings) of uranium mining. In mining, raw uranium ore is brought to the surface and crushed into a fine sand. The valuable uranium-bearing minerals are then removed via heap leaching with the use of acids or bases, and the remaining radioactive sludge, called "uranium tailings"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7095521 |
Gas thermometer A gas thermometer is a thermometer that measures temperature by the variation in volume or pressure of a gas. This thermometer functions by Charles's Law. Charles's Law states that when the temperature of a gas increases, so does the volume. Using Charles's Law, the temperature can be measured by knowin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7096097 |
Photocyte A photocyte is a cell that specializes in catalyzing enzymes to produce light (bioluminescence). Photocytes typically occur in select layers of epithelial tissue, functioning singly or in a group, or as part of a larger apparatus (a photophore). They contain special structures termed as photocyte granules. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7097494 |
Photocyte The variations of color seen in different photocytes are usually the result of color filters that alter the wavelength of the light prior to exiting the endoderm, thanks to the other parts of the photophore. The range of colors vary between bioluminescent species. The exact combinations of luciferase and luci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7097494 |
Moving-cluster method In astrometry, the moving-cluster method and the closely related convergent point method are means, primarily of historical interest, for determining the distance to star clusters. They were used on several nearby clusters in the first half of the 1900s to determine distance. The moving-cluster me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7102909 |
Moving-cluster method Finally, the uncertainty in the final distance values are in general fairly large compared those obtained with precision measurements like those from Hipparcos. Of the clusters it has been used with, certainly the most famous are the Hyades and the Pleiades. The moving-cluster method was in fact t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7102909 |
Camill Heller (26 September 1823 – 25 February 1917) was a zoologist and anatomist. Heller was born in Sobochleben (Soběchleby) near Teplitz in Bohemia (now Teplice, part of the Czech Republic). He received a doctorate in medical studies in Vienna in 1849. Heller was the 'Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy' a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7132760 |
Carpathite (also "pendletonite" and "karpatite") is a very rare hydrocarbon mineral. It is the mineral form of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon coronene with formula: CH. It was first described in 1955 for an occurrence in Transcarpathian Oblast, Ukraine. It was named for the Carpathian Mountains. It has also been r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7135901 |
Warren Upham (8 March 1850 – 29 January 1934) was a geologist, archaeologist, and librarian who is best known for his studies of glacial Lake Agassiz. Upham worked as a geologist in New Hampshire before moving in 1879 to Minnesota to study the resources and glacial geology of that state. Upham's first major report on L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7139178 |
Isocaudomer Isocaudomers are pairs of restriction enzymes that have slightly different recognition sequences, but upon cleavage of DNA, generate identical overhanging termini sequences. These sequences can be ligated to one another, but then form an asymmetrical sequence that cannot be cleaved by a restriction enzyme. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7172777 |
Topological censorship The topological censorship theorem states that general relativity does not allow an observer to probe the topology of spacetime: any topological structure collapses too quickly to allow light to traverse it. More precisely, in a globally hyperbolic, asymptotically flat spacetime satisfying the nu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7172991 |
Ronaldo Rogério de Freitas Mourão (25 May 1935 – 25 July 2014) was a Brazilian astronomer and the founder of the Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences (Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins) (MAST), as well as a researcher and titular partner at the Brazilian History and Geography Institute (Instituto Histórico e Geo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7173741 |
Contact number In chemistry, a contact number (CN) is a simple solvent exposure measure that measures residue burial in proteins. The definition of CN varies between authors, but is generally defined as the number of either Cformula_1 or Cformula_2 atoms within a sphere around the Cformula_1 or Cformula_2 atom of the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7174287 |
Side population A side population (SP) in flow cytometry is a sub-population of cells that is distinct from the main population on the basis of the markers employed. By definition, cells in a side population have distinguishing biological characteristics (for example, they may exhibit stem cell-like characteristics), b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7178651 |
Side population These new data indicate that the ability of malignant SP cells to expel anticancer drugs may directly improve their survival and sustain their clonogenicity during exposure to cytostatic drugs, allowing disease recurrence when therapy is withdrawn. Identification of a tumor progenitor population with in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7178651 |
Alaska Volcano Observatory The (AVO) is a joint program of the United States Geological Survey, the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the State of Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys (ADGGS). AVO was formed in 1988, and uses federal, state, and university resources to mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7183730 |
Hypothetical astronomical object A hypothetical astronomical object is an astronomical object (such as a star, planet or moon) that is believed or speculated to exist or to have existed but whose existence has not been scientifically proven. Such objects have been hypothesized throughout recorded history. For example, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7186519 |
Stretch receptor Stretch receptors are mechanoreceptors responsive to distention of various organs and muscles, and are neurologically linked to the medulla in the brain stem via afferent nerve fibers. Examples include stretch receptors in the arm and leg muscles and tendons, in the heart, in the colon wall, and in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7188290 |
Arp 240 is a pair of interacting spiral galaxy located in the constellation Virgo. The two galaxies are listed together as in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. The galaxy on the right is known as NGC 5257, while the galaxy on the left is known as NGC 5258. Both galaxies are distorted by the gravitational interaction, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7189698 |
Ovitrap An ovitrap is a device which consists of a dark container containing water and a substrate where mosquitoes can lay their eggs. The eggs then fall through the mesh into the water, where the larvae hatch and develop into pupas. When the adult mosquitoes emerge, they are trapped beneath the mesh and are unable to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7190097 |
D'Alembert's equation In mathematics, d'Alembert's equation is a first order nonlinear ordinary differential equation, named after the French mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert. The equation reads as where formula_2. After differentiating once, and rearranging we have The above equation is linear. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7203729 |
Bruneau jasper is a variety of the mineral jasper. It is a "picture jasper" – a jasper that exhibits particular patterns and colors – and is used as an opaque gemstone. The stone exhibits layered patterns of brown, reddish brown and cream color, or sometimes of red and green color. It was discovered in the Bruneau Rive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7208706 |
Alpha Regio is a region of the planet Venus extending for about 1500 kilometers centered at 22°S, 5°E. It was discovered and named by Richard Goldstein in 1964. The name was approved by the International Astronomical Union's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (IAU/WGPSN) between 1976 and 1979. Maxwell Mont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7213847 |
Beta Regio is a region of the planet Venus known as a "volcanic rise". Measuring about in extent, it constitutes a prominent upland region of Venus centered at . The first features that showed up in early radar surveys of the planet were given the names of letters of the Greek alphabet. was one of those features. It wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7213888 |
William Lundbeck (16 October 1863 in Aalborg – 18 May 1941 in Kongens Lyngby) was a Danish entomologist mainly interested in Diptera. He was a Professor in the University Museum in Copenhagen. Lundbeck's most important work was "Diptera Danica. Genera and species of flies Hitherto found in Denmark". Copenhagen & London... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7252604 |
Ekman water bottle The is a sea water temperature sample device. The cylinder is dropped at the desired depth, the trap door below is opened to let the water enter and then closed tightly. This can be repeated at different depths as each sample goes to a different chamber of the insulated bottle. It was used for greate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7259047 |
César-Mansuète Despretz (4 May 1791, Lessines – 15 March 1863, Paris) was a chemist and physicist. He became a French citizen in 1838. A street is named after him in Lessines (rue César Despretz). In 1818, Despretz started working as répétiteur in chemistry at Polytechnique, in Paris, under Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (177... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7260243 |
Bedford Level experiment The is a series of observations carried out along a length of the Old Bedford River on the Bedford Level of the Cambridgeshire Fens in the United Kingdom, during the 19th and early 20th centuries, to measure the curvature of the Earth. Samuel Birley Rowbotham, who conducted the first observatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7266679 |
Bedford Level experiment Rowbotham repeated his experiments several times over the years but his claims received little attention until, in 1870, a supporter by the name of John Hampden offered a wager that he could show, by repeating Rowbotham's experiment, that the earth was flat. The noted naturalist and qualified s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7266679 |
Bedford Level experiment This version of the experiment was taught in schools until photographs of the Earth from space became available. Advocates of a flat Earth, however, were not deterred: on 11 May 1904 Lady Elizabeth Anne Blount, who would go on to be influential in the formation of the Flat Earth Society, hired ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7266679 |
Bedford Level experiment If the measurement is close enough to the surface, this downward curve may match the mean curvature of the Earth's surface. In this case, the two effects of assumed curvature and refraction could cancel each other out and the Earth will then appear flat in optical experiments. This would have b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7266679 |
Bedford Level experiment Unlike Rowbotham, he was seeking to demonstrate that the surface of the earth was curved: when he too found that his target marker, above water level and distant, was clearly visible he concluded that the Earth's surface was "concavely" curved, in line with the expectations of his sponsors, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7266679 |
Cape Verde (Mars) Cape Verde is a large promontory and extremity on the rim of Victoria Crater in Meridiani Planum, an extraterrestrial plain within the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle (MC-19) region of the planet Mars. The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity perched atop this feature in 2006 to take a true-color mosaic o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7270402 |
Kohn effect The is a dispersion of phonons from the Fermi surface, named for Walter Kohn. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7270813 |
Debye–Falkenhagen effect The increase in the conductivity of an electrolyte solution when the applied voltage has a very high frequency is known as Debye–Falkenhagen effect. Impedance measurements on water-p-dioxane and the methanol-toluene systems have confirmed Falkenhagen's predictions made in 1929. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7274018 |
Józef Grzybowski (March 17, 1869 – February 17, 1922), was a Polish geologist, paleontologist and foraminiferologist. Grzybowski was born in Kraków. He was educated at Jagiellonian University where he became the director of the Paleontological Laboratory. Grzybowski was a Professor of Palaeontology at the Jagiellonian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7276807 |
Center for Meteorite Studies The was founded in 1960, on the Tempe Campus of Arizona State University, and houses the world's largest university-based meteorite collection. The collection contains specimens from over 1,600 separate meteorite falls and finds, and is actively used internationally for planetary, geologica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7279337 |
Beta-M The is a radioisotope thermoelectric generator that was used in Soviet-era lighthouses and beacons. The contains a core made up of strontium-90, which has a half-life of 28.79 years. In its initial state after manufacture, the generator is capable of generating 10 watts of electricity, almost enough to power a c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7280692 |
Lesotho Promise The Lesotho Promise, a 603 carat (121 g) diamond stone of exceptional colour was unearthed on 22 August 2006 at the Letseng diamond mine in the mountain kingdom of Lesotho. Announced on 4 October 2006, it was the largest reported find this century and the 15th largest diamond ever found. The stone is ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7288146 |
Tyrrhena Terra is a large area on Mars, centered south of the Martian equator and immediately northeast of the Hellas basin. Its coordinates are , and it covers 2300 km at its broadest extent. It was named for a classic albedo feature of the planet and is in the Mare Tyrrhenum quadrangle of Mars. is typical of the sout... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7299909 |
Xanthe Terra is a large area on Mars, centered just north of the Martian equator. Its coordinates are and its diameter is 1867.65 km. Its name means "golden-yellow land." It is in the Lunae Palus quadrangle, the Coprates quadrangle, the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle, and the Oxia Palus quadrangle. Ravi Vallis, Aromatum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7300044 |
Bounce Rock is a football-sized primarily pyroxene rock found within the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle (MC-19) region of the planet Mars. It was discovered and observed by the Mars Exploration Rover "Opportunity" in April 2004. The rock was named for the fact that it was struck by "Opportunity" as the craft bounced to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7304477 |
Hisashi Abe Hisashi Abe | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7317138 |
Von Zeipel theorem In astrophysics, the von Zeipel theorem states that the radiative flux formula_1 in a uniformly rotating star is proportional to the local effective gravity formula_2. Specifically, where the luminosity formula_4 and mass formula_5 are evaluated on a surface of constant pressure formula_6. The effect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7318436 |
Barnacle Bill (Martian rock) Barnacle Bill is a rock on Mars in Ares Vallis. It was the first rock on Mars analyzed by the "Sojourner" rover using its "Alpha Proton X-ray Spectrometer". The encounter occurred during Sol 3 of the Mars Pathfinder mission on the surface of Mars and took ten hours to complete. Early analys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7320477 |
Jeffrey H. Goodman is a neuroscientist at Helen Hayes Hospital in West Haverstraw, New York. His work studying treatments for Epilepsy has been published in many journals (H-index 30) and presented at conferences all over the world. One of his recent publications involves a procedure for delivering a low frequency sine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7322901 |
Pot of Gold (Mars) Pot of Gold is the nickname for a knobby, softball-sized rock in Gusev Crater on Mars. During an examination by the Mars Exploration Rover "Spirit" on June 25, 2004, Hematite was first detected by "Spirit", suggesting a watery past on Mars. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7325991 |
Lake Komi was a prehistoric periglacial lake formed in the region of the present-day Russian Komi Republic when the Barents Sea outlet of the Pechora River was blocked by ice during the Weichselian Glaciation. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7330911 |
West Siberian Glacial Lake The West Siberian Glacial Lake, also known as West Siberian Lake or Mansiyskoe Lake (), was a periglacial lake formed when the Arctic Ocean outlets for each of the Ob and Yenisei rivers were blocked by the Barents-Kara Ice Sheet during the Weichselian Glaciation, approximately 80,000 years ag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7331281 |
Polyimide foam is a foam originally designed for NASA by Inspec Foams Inc. under the brand name Solimide. Its primary purposes are as an insulator (such as for rocket fuels) and acoustic damper. NASA engineered the product to have relatively low outgassing (a problem in vacuum and aboard spacecraft), desirable thermal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7346797 |
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes (1983) is Stephen Jay Gould's third volume of collected essays reprinted from his monthly columns for "Natural History" magazine titled "This view of life". Three essays appeared elsewhere. "Evolution as Fact and Theory" first appeared in "Discover" magazine in May 1981; "Phyletic size decr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7362118 |
Anthroposphere The anthroposphere (sometimes also referred as technosphere) is that part of the environment that is made or modified by humans for use in human activities and s. It is one of the Earth's spheres. The term was first used by nineteenth-century Austrian geologist Eduard Suess. The contemporary concept of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7371134 |
Anthroposphere Aspects of the anthroposphere include: mines from which minerals are obtained; automated agriculture which produces the food consumed by 7+ billion Sapiens; oil and gas fields; computer-based systems including the Internet; educational systems; landfills; factories; atmospheric pollution; artificial sate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7371134 |
Oospore An oospore is a thick-walled sexual spore that develops from a fertilized oosphere in some algae, fungi, and Oomycetes. They are believed to have evolved either through the fusion of two species or the chemically-induced stimulation of mycelia, leading to oospore formation. In Oomycetes, oospores can also resul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7383487 |
K-line (x-ray) The K-line is a spectral peak in astronomical spectrometry used, along with the L-line, to observe and describe the light spectrum of stars. The K-line is associated with iron (Fe) and is described as being from emissions at ~6.4keV (thousands of electron volts). On 5 October 2006 NASA announced the resu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7388204 |
Maksim Ponomaryov Maksim Vladimirovich Ponomaryov (), born on February 20, 1980, captain of Russian Air Force, and was a Russian cosmonaut, selected in 2006, who retired in 2012 after no missions to space. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7399614 |
The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a contemporary history book written by the American journalist and historian Richard Rhodes, first published by Simon & Schuster in 1987. It won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and a National Book Critics Circle Award. The narrative co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7403861 |
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