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Optoelectrowetting Electrowetting presents a solution to one of the most challenging tasks in lab-on-a-chip systems in its ability to handle and manipulate complete physiological compounds. Conventional microfluidic systems aren't easily adaptable to handle different compounds, requiring reconfiguration that often resu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44524545 |
Permanent cell Permanent cells are cells that are incapable of regeneration. These cells are considered to be terminally differentiated and non-proliferative in postnatal life. This includes neurons, heart cells, skeletal muscle cells and red blood cells. Although these cells are considered permanent in that they neith... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44531850 |
Quaternary Science Reviews is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering quaternary science. It was established in 1982 by Pergamon Press and is currently published by Elsevier. The editor-in-chief is C.V. Murray Wallace (University of Wollongong). According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2013 im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44537460 |
Darwin (Martian crater) Darwin is an impact crater on Mars, located at 57°S 19°E to the southeast of Argyre Planitia in Noachis Terra. It is approximately 176 km in diameter. The crater's name was formally approved by the IAU in 1973. To the northeast of Darwin are the craters Green and Roddenberry. To the northwest is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44547824 |
Roddenberry (crater) Roddenberry is a crater on Mars, located at 49°S 4°W to the east of Argyre Planitia in Noachis Terra. It measures approximately 139 kilometers in diameter. The crater's name was taken from Gene Roddenberry, creator of the television series , and was formally approved by the IAU in 1994. To the sout... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44547915 |
NGC 4102 is an intermediate spiral galaxy located in the northern constellation of Ursa Major. The galaxy contains a LINER region and a starburst region. The starburst region is in diameter containing some 3 billion solar masses. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44572231 |
Jinshichi Shibuya was a Japanese entomologist specialized in Lepidoptera. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44582266 |
Heliotron J is a fusion research device in Japan, specifically a helical-axis heliotron designed to study plasma confinement in this type of device. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44585187 |
Desulfurobacteriaceae The family are bacteria belonging to the Aquificae phylum. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44595037 |
Ogden Tweto (1912 - 1983) created the now-classic Geologic Map of Colorado which is held as one of the finest examples of a state geologic map. Tweto received awards including the Distinguished Service Award of the Department of the Interior (1970) and the Scientist of the Year Award by the Rocky Mountain Association o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44613114 |
William Toby White is an Australian ichthyologist. He studies speciation and biodiversity of shark, ray, and skate species (subclass Elasmobranchii) through morphological and molecular systematics. White received bachelor's (1997) and doctoral (2003) degrees in Biological Science from Murdoch University in Perth, Austr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44621920 |
William Toby White Since 2011, he has served as editor for the journal "Ichthyological Research". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44621920 |
J. Richard Harris John Richard Harris (born 1910) was an Irish entomologist, fishing consultant, tackle merchant, and author. He was a keen angler and tier of flies from boyhood. He was a sometime merchant seaman, journalist, and freshwater biologist. He was a been demonstrator in limnology at Trinity College, Dublin. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44638228 |
Anatoly Zimon Anatoly Davydovich Zimon (; November 20, 1924 – February 22, 2015) was an honorary professor of the Moscow State Technological Academy, a Doctor of Technical Sciences, Honored Scientist of Russia, Academician of the International Academy of Ecology and Life Safety, veteran of World War II and a retired co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44689296 |
Ice XVI is the least dense (0.81 g/cm) experimentally obtained crystalline form of ice. It is topologically equivalent to the empty structure of sII clathrate hydrates. It was first obtained in 2014 by removing gas molecules from a neon clathrate under vacuum at temperatures below 147 K. The resulting empty water frame... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44706819 |
Bibliography of encyclopedias: biology This is a list of encyclopedias as well as encyclopedic and biographical dictionaries published on the subject of biology in any language. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44707607 |
NGC 5985 is a spiral galaxy located in the northern constellation Draco. was discovered by William Herschel in 1788. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44719733 |
I Zw 36 I Zwicky 36, often abbreviated to I Zw 36, is a blue compact dwarf galaxy which is in the constellation Canes Venatici. The dominant population of stars in is young in stellar terms, with ages of under 3 million years. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44733635 |
PRI disease resistant apple breeding program The is a joint project of the Purdue University, Rutgers University, and the University of Illinois, to breed apple cultivars to be resistant to apple scab. PRI stands for 'P'urdue, 'R'utgers and 'I'llinois. It was L. Fredric Hough, then a graduate student at the University ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44772528 |
Hana Librová (born 26 November 1943 in Brno, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia) is a Czech biologist, sociologist and environmentalist. She founded the Department of Environmental Studies at Masaryk University. She has carried out research on environmental lifestyle and environmental values. She studied biology at th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44778097 |
Dietmar Seyferth is emeritus professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published widely on topics in organometallic chemistry and is the founding editor of the journal Organometallics. Seyferth was born in 1929 in Chemnitz, Germany and received his college education at the University o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44799308 |
Chloroorganic carrier The chloroorganic carrier is a group of molecules that aids the transport of dyes into a fiber. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44800053 |
List of spiral DRAGNs Spiral DRAGNs are a type of galaxy; spiral galaxies which contain DRAGNs (Double Radio-source Associated with Galactic Nucleus), and are therefore also radio galaxies. Most DRAGNs are associated with elliptical galaxies, as are most double-lobed radio-galaxies.<ref name="VLA/14A-406"> </ref> Spira... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44805034 |
Estonian Museum of Natural History The (Estonian: "Eesti Loodusmuuseum") is the Estonian national museum for natural history. It is situated in Tallinn's Old Town. The museum focuses on natural history and nature education, offering its visitors a tour in the wilderness of Estonia. The exhibition space consists of perm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44807402 |
Estonian Museum of Natural History After the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Baltic-German institutions, including the Estonian Literary Society, were closed. In 1940, through the Regulation of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Estonian SSR, the Soviet authorities nationalized all museums allowing for a National Museu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44807402 |
Estonian Museum of Natural History The collections boast a wide selection of both vertebrate and invertebrate species from Estonia as well as other parts of the world. The zoological collections include: The geological collection of the Museum of Natural History holds approximately 3,500 samples. Nearly three fourths o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44807402 |
Estonian Museum of Natural History Some of the most notable mineralogical samples include large quartz, amethyst, and fluoride druses. The history of science collection with approximately 1 050 specimens comprises archival materials and historical items pertaining to the study and mediation of nature. The photo collect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44807402 |
KKs 3 is a dwarf galaxy in the Local Cluster. It is unusual because it is gas poor and very isolated in the halo of the local group. is 7 million light years away from Earth. It is categorised as a dwarf spheroidal dSph galaxy. The mass of is 2.3 × 10 (23 million times the mass of the Sun) with a blue absolute magnitud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44811652 |
Histoire Naturelle The Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi (; ) is an encyclopaedic collection of 36 large (quarto) volumes written between 1749–1804, initially by the Comte de Buffon, and continued in eight more volumes after his death by his colleagues, led by Bernard G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44817531 |
Histoire Naturelle "L’intérieur, dans les êtres vivants, est le fond du dessin de la nature", he wrote in his "Quadrupèdes," "the interior, in living things, is the foundation of nature's design." The "Histoire Naturelle", which was meant to address the whole of natural history, actually covers only minerals, birds, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44817531 |
Histoire Naturelle Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond and Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau provided sources for the mineral volumes. L’"Histoire Naturelle" met immense success, almost as great as "Encyclopédie" by Diderot, which came out in the same period. The first three volumes of "L’Histoire Naturelle, générale et part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44817531 |
Histoire Naturelle The article on the wolf begins with the claim that it is one of the animals with a specially strong appetite for flesh; it asserts that the animal is naturally coarse and cowardly ("grossier et poltron"), but becoming crafty at need, and hardy by necessity, driven by hunger. The language, as in this ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44817531 |
Histoire Naturelle The wolf is illustrated standing in farmland, and as a complete skeleton standing on a stone plinth in a landscape. The account of the species occupies 32 pages including illustrations. The original edition of the "Histoire Naturelle" by Buffon comprised 36 volumes in quarto, divided into the followi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44817531 |
Histoire Naturelle The part containing anatomical articles by Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton was dropped. The supplements were merged into the relevant articles in the main volumes. The "Imprimerie royale" also published two editions of the "Histoire Naturelle" in duodecimo format (1752–1805), occupying 90 or 71 volumes, d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44817531 |
Histoire Naturelle Griffith published an early translation of the volume on "The Horse" in London in 1762. T. Bell published a translation of the first six volumes in London between 1775 and 1776. William Creech published an edition in Edinburgh between 1780 and 1785. T. Cadell and W. Davies published another edition i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44817531 |
Histoire Naturelle A Russian version (The General and Particular Natural History by Count Buffon; "Всеобщая и частная естественная история графа Бюффона") was brought out by The Imperial Academy of Sciences (Императорской Академией Наук) in St. Petersburg between 1789 and 1808. An abridged edition for children was publ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44817531 |
Histoire Naturelle In Buffon's view, expounded in the "Premier Discours" of the "Histoire Naturelle" (1749), the concept of species was entirely artificial, the only real entity in nature being the individual; as for a taxonomy based on the number of stamens or pistils in a flower, mere counting (despite Buffon's own t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44817531 |
Histoire Naturelle " In its view, the work created an "age of Buffon", defining what natural history itself was, while Buffon's "Discourse on Method" (unlike that of Descartes) at the start of the work argued that repeated observation could lead to a greater certainty of knowledge even than "mathematical analysis of na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44817531 |
Histoire Naturelle She quotes Buffon's dramatic description of the lion, which along with the engraving in her view "emphasized both the lion's regal bearing and personality not only in his text but also in the illustration... A reader was left in no doubt as to the importance and character of the animal." She conclude... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44817531 |
Histoire Naturelle Mayr argues however that Buffon was "fully aware of the possibility of 'common descent', and was perhaps the first author ever to articulate it clearly", quoting Buffon at length, starting with "Not only the ass and the horse, but also man, the apes, the quadrupeds, and all the animals might be regar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44817531 |
Astro-Physics Astro-Physics, Inc. is a manufacturer of amateur telescopes, mounts, and accessories. Founded in 1975 by former Sundstrand Corporation engineer Roland Christen, the company is noted for its line of apochromatic refractors. The company is located in Machesney Park, Illinois. The company is owned by Roland ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44823200 |
Elizabeth Nicholls Elizabeth (Betsy) L. Nicholls (January 31, 1946 – October 18, 2004) was an American-Canadian paleontologist who specialized in Triassic marine reptiles. She was a paleontologist at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, Canada. Nicholls was born in Oakland, California, and received her undergraduate de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44832665 |
Karen Chin is an American paleontologist and taphonomist who is considered one of the world's leading experts in coprolites. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44836230 |
Susan Cachel is an American anthropologist, paleontologist and researcher who specializes in primate evolution, including humans. In 2009 she was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in honor of her work in primate evolution. She is the author of "Primate and Human Evolution", publi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44838163 |
Lindsay Zanno Lindsay E. Zanno is an American vertebrate paleontologist and who is an expert in the taxonomy of therizinosaurs and is known for her innovative use of X-ray computed tomography in reconstructing dinosaurs. She is the director of the Paleontology & Geology Research Laboratory at the North Carolina Museum ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44838274 |
Roger Naviaux (active from 1973) is a French entomologist known for his work on beetles. He has described numerous species of beetle. "Neocollyris naviauxi", and "Paraphysodeutera naviauxi", both in the family Carabidae, are named after him. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44839093 |
IC 335 is a lenticular galaxy about 60 million light years (18 million parsecs) away, in the constellation Fornax. It is part of the Fornax Cluster. appears very similar to NGC 4452, a lenticular galaxy in Virgo. Both galaxies are edge-on, meaning that their characteristics, like spiral arms, are hidden. Lenticular gal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44839293 |
Catherine Forster Catherine Ann Forster is an American paleontologist, taxonomist and expert in ornithopod evolution and "Triceratops" taxonomy. She is a Professor in the Geological Sciences Program and the Department of Biological Sciences at George Washington University. She obtained a B.A. and B.S. from the Universi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44840342 |
Constantin Arnoldi was a Russian entomologist. Constantin was the son of Vladimir Arnoldi. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44840838 |
Eduardo de Robertis Eduardo D. P. De Robertis (11 December 1913 – 31 May 1988) was a noted Argentine physician and biologist. He had a long and prolific scientific career, and was a co-discoverer of cell microtubules in 1953. De Robertis was the son of an Italian immigrant and his son Edward M. De Robertis is also a no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44843579 |
International Indian Ocean Expedition The (IIOE) was a large-scale multinational hydrographic survey of the Indian Ocean which took place from 1959 to 1965. It involved over 45 research vessels from 14 countries. It was sponsored by the Scientific Committee on Oceanographic Research, and later by the Intergovernmental ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44852444 |
Le Règne Animal (The Animal Kingdom) is the most famous work of the French naturalist Georges Cuvier. It sets out to describe the natural structure of the whole of the animal kingdom based on comparative anatomy, and its natural history. Cuvier divided the animals into four "embranchements" ("Branches", roughly corresp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44855053 |
Le Règne Animal "Le Règne Animal" was influential in being widely read, and in presenting accurate descriptions of groups of related animals, such as the living elephants and the extinct mammoths, providing convincing evidence for evolutionary change to readers including Charles Darwin, although Cuvier himself rejected... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44855053 |
Le Règne Animal Cuvier divided the molluscs into three orders: cephalopods, gastropods and acephala. Still not satisfied, he continued to work on animal classification, culminating over twenty years later in the "Règne Animal". For the "Règne Animal", using evidence from comparative anatomy and palaeontology—including ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44855053 |
Le Règne Animal Then in 1830, Saint-Hilaire argued that these two groups could themselves be related, implying a single form of life from which all others could have evolved, and that Cuvier's four body plans were not fundamental. The twelve "disciples" who contributed to the 3rd edition were Jean Victor Audouin (insec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44855053 |
Le Règne Animal Many English translations and abridged versions were published and reprinted in the nineteenth century; records may be for the entire work or individual volumes, which were not necessarily dated, while old translations were often brought out in "new" editions by other publishers, making for a complex pu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44855053 |
Le Règne Animal de Cristofori was published by Stamperia Carmignani in 1832. A Hungarian translation by Peter Vajda was brought out in 1841. Each section, such as on reptiles at the start of Volume II (and the entire work) is introduced with an essay on distinguishing aspects of their zoology. In the case of the reptil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44855053 |
Le Règne Animal The first sub-genus comprises the land tortoises; their zoology is summed up in a paragraph, which observes that they have a domed carapace, with a solid bony support (the term being "charpente", commonly used of the structure of wooden beams that support a roof). He records that the legs are thick, wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44855053 |
Le Règne Animal The table from the 1828 "Penny Cyclopaedia" indicates species that were thought to belong to each group in Cuvier's taxonomy. The four major divisions were known as "embranchements" ("branches"). The entomologist William Sharp Macleay, in his 1821 book "Horae Entomologicae" which put forward the short-l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44855053 |
Le Règne Animal The same review covers Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville's "Iconographie du Règne Animal de M. le Baron Cuvier", which offered illustrations of all Cuvier's genera (except for the birds). The "Foreign Review" of 1830 broadly admired Cuvier's work, but disagreed with his classification. It commented that "F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44855053 |
Le Règne Animal The review argued that the vertebrate division relied on the presence of a vertebral column, "a part of the organization of comparatively little importance in the economy"; it found the basis of the mollusca on "the general softness of the body" no better; the choice of the presence of articulations no ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44855053 |
Le Règne Animal " The book was in the library of "HMS Beagle" for Charles Darwin's voyage. In "The Origin of Species" (1859), in a chapter on the difficulties facing the theory, Darwin comments that "The expression of conditions of existence, so often insisted on by the illustrious Cuvier, is fully embraced by the prin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44855053 |
Le Règne Animal " Taquet further notes that while Cuvier rejected evolution, it was paradoxically "the precision of his anatomical descriptions and the importance of his research on fossil bones", showing for instance that mammoths were extinct elephants, that enabled later naturalists including Darwin to argue convinc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44855053 |
Der Alte Schwede or Alter Schwede (meaning (The) Old Swede in German) is a glacial erratic, found during dredging of the river Elbe near Hamburg in 1999, at a depth of 15 m. The rock has a circumference of 19.7 m, a height of 4.5 m and weighs 217 tons. During the Elster maximum glaciation of the ice age 400 000 years a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44879146 |
Horro (cattle) Horro, Wallega or "Wollega" cattle are a breed of cattle native to Ethiopia. Horro are usually brown in colour and have a hump at the rear. They can be used for milk, meat and draft. In Ethiopia, they are seen as a sign of wealth and prestige. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44889546 |
P. M. de Respour P. M. de Respour, a Flemish metallurgist and alchemist, was the first person to extract metallic zinc from zinc oxide in 1668. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44891133 |
Georgy Katys Georgi Petrovich Katys (; 31 August 1926 7 August 2017) was a Soviet cosmonaut. Georgi Katys was born on 31 August 1926. Candidate of technical sciences degree from Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School, Moscow 1953. He was selected as a cosmonaut on 28 May 1964. Later he became the chief of AN cosmonaut g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44911864 |
Gondwana Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal with an "all earth science" scope and an emphasis on the origin and evolution of continents. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44935768 |
Mezzoramia (Titan) Mezzoramia is a dark albedo feature (region) located at on Titan, the largest moon of the planet Saturn. It is named after Mezzoramia, a mythical African oasis of happiness from Italian legend. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44936063 |
Pinch-induced behavioral inhibition Pinch-induced behavioural inhibition (PIBI), also called dorsal immobility, transport immobility or clipnosis, is a partially inert state which results from a gentle squeeze of the skin behind the neck. It is mostly observed among cats and allows a female cat to carry her kitten easi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44961465 |
Registered Scientist (RSci) is an extension to the Science Council's existing professional registers, that was introduced in 2012. This register extends the framework to allow professional recognition for higher technical roles. Holders of this qualification can use the post-nominal letters RSci. The and Registered Sci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44969338 |
Alfred Nicholson Leeds (9 March 184725 August 1917) was an English amateur palaeontologist. He was born at Eyebury, Peterborough, the youngest of the eight children of Edward Thurlow Leeds (180251) and Eliza Mary Leeds (née Nicholson). He was educated at Warwick School. He had wanted to become a doctor, but circumstanc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44973208 |
Alfred Nicholson Leeds He was a Fellow of the Geological Society; in 1893, he was awarded part of its Lyell Fund. Other museums in the UK and elsewhere hold items from his collection; including the National Museum of Ireland. An extinct genus of fish, "Leedsichthys", and several extinct species have been named in his h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44973208 |
Arrhenius (Martian crater) Arrhenius is an impact crater in the Eridania quadrangle on Mars at 40.3° S and 237.4° W. and is 129.0 km in diameter. Its name, for Svante Arrhenius, was approved in 1973 by the IAU. Evidence of previous glacial activity is evident in images. There also appear to be branched channels just ou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44973248 |
Cruls (crater) Cruls is an impact crater in the Eridania quadrangle on Mars at 42.91° S and 163.03° E. and is 87.89 km in diameter. Its name was assigned in 1973 by the International Astronomical Union, in honor of Brazilian astronomer Luís Cruls. Evidence of previous glacial activity is evident in images. Glaciers, lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44992512 |
Suzhi (crater) Suzhi is an impact crater on Mars, located in the Iapygia quadrangle at 27.7 ° S and 274.0 ° W. It measures 24.63 kilometers in diameter and was named by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature after a place in China in 1991. There may have been a lake i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44996292 |
Empirical valence bond The Empirical Valence Bond (EVB) approach is an approximation that allows you to calculate reaction free-energies in condensed-phase. It was first developed by Arieh Warshel. And was inspired by the way Marcus theory uses potential surfaces to calculate the probability of electron transfer.Where ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45004055 |
Empirical valence bond Typically this is done using a free energy perturbation / umbrella sampling approach. EVB has been successfully applied to calculating reaction free energies of enzymes. More recently it has been looked at as a tool to study enzyme evolution and to assist in enzyme design. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45004055 |
Focas (Martian crater) Focas Crater is an impact crater in the Ismenius Lacus quadrangle of Mars. It is located at 33.9° N and 347.3° W and its name was approved in 1973. Focas Crater is 76.5 km in diameter. It was named after Jean Focas. Pictures reveal many small channels along its rim; some are visible in pictures b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45005259 |
Janssen (Martian crater) Janssen Crater is an impact crater in the Arabia quadrangle on Mars at 2.7° N and 322.4° W. and is 154 km in diameter. Its name was approved in 1973, and refers to French astronomer Pierre Janssen. Some close up images of the crater reveal layers in a floor deposit. A picture below show these l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45006576 |
Rutherford (Martian crater) Rutherford is an impact crater on Mars. It is located the Oxia Palus quadrangle inside Arabia Terra at 19.2° N and 10.7° W. and measures approximately 107 kilometers in diameter. The crater was named after British physicist Ernest Rutherford in 1973. Some close up images of the crater show d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45007503 |
Quenisset (crater) Quenisset is an impact crater on Mars, located in the Ismenius Lacus quadrangle at 34.6° N and 319.4° W. It measures 138 kilometer in diameter. Adopted by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature in 1973, the crater was named after French astronomer Ferdinand Quénisset. Some close up ima... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45008466 |
Acousto-electronics (also spelled 'Acoustoelectronics') is a branch of physics, acoustics and electronics that studies interactions of ultrasonic and hypersonic waves in solids with electrons and with electro-magnetic fields. Typical phenomena studied in acousto-electronics are acousto-electric effect and also amplific... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45021102 |
Maggini (crater) Maggini is a large Martian impact crater in northwestern Arabia Terra, located in the Arabia quadrangle at 28.0° N and 350.6° W. It measures 143.0 kilometers in diameter and was named after Mentore Maggini. The name was approved by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature in 1973. The Magg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45029914 |
Marth (Martian crater) Marth Crater is an impact crater on Mars, located in the Oxia Palus quadrangle at 13.0° N and 3.5° W. The crater measures approximately is 98 kilometers in diameter. Its name was approved in 1973, and refers to German astronomer Albert Marth. Light and dark markings on the surface are due to dust... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45029992 |
Teisserenc de Bort (crater) Teisserenc de Bort is an impact crater on Mars, at 0.4° N and 45.1° E. Most of it is in the Syrtis Major quadrangle. in It measures 115 kilometers in diameter and was named after French meteorologist Léon Teisserenc de Bort (1855–1913). The name was adopted by IAU's Working Group for Planeta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45030080 |
NGC 1000 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation of Andromeda. It was discovered on December 9, 1871 by Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan. It is the 1,000th object classified by the New General Catalogue. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45040502 |
Charles E. Resser Charles Elmer Resser (1889-1943), was an American paleontologist, born in East Berlin, Pennsylvania. He was educated at Pennsylvania State Teachers College (graduation in 1912), Franklin and Marshall College (B.A., 1913), Princeton University (M.A., 1915) and George Washington University (Ph.D., 1917)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45041972 |
Renaudot (crater) Renaudot is an impact crater in the Casius quadrangle on Mars at 42.4° N and 297.4° W and measures 64 kilometers in diameter. Its name was approved in 1973, and it was named after Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion. Along its wall are evidence of old glaciers. The floor bears a field of dunes. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45042663 |
Hussey (crater) Hussey Crater is an impact crater in the Phaethontis quadrangle on Mars at 53.8° S and 126.7° W. It is 99.0 km in diameter. Its name refers to American astronomer William Hussey. Dunes are visible in the northern part of the crater floor. Pictures below show the dunes from a wide view and then eventuall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45042712 |
Fooya (styled as fooya!) is a medical mobile app which uses gamification of learning and educational entertainment principles to induce children to improve their dietary choices. It was developed by the mHealth company FriendsLearn and was featured as a case study of cutting-edge research methods in areas of emerging t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45063760 |
Fooya Results of the underlying mechanisms in have been presented at the 2015 MedicineX Conference at the Stanford School of Medicine, 2015 Biennial Childhood Obesity Conference, 2015 Child Health Bay Area Conference at UCSF School of Medicine and the 2014 ObesityWeek Conference is the official title sponsor of "The He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45063760 |
Circe effect The is a phenomenon proposed by William Jencks seen in chemistry and biochemistry where in order to speed up a reaction, the ground state of the substrate is destabilized by an enzyme. Highly favourable binding of a substrate at a non-reactive site will force the reactive site of the substrate to be more r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45067549 |
Robert J. Twiss is an American geologist emeritus of University of California, Davis. He made his Ph.D. 1971 at Princeton University. First in his career he researched viscosity of earth mantle.<ref name="DOI10.1016/0012-821x(76)90160-6"> </ref> Nowadays he interests for the mechanisms and mechanics of rock deformation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45075498 |
Refraction (sound) Refraction, in acoustics, comparable to the refraction of electromagnetic radiation, is the bending of sound propagation trajectories (rays) in inhomogeneous elastic media (gases, liquids, and solids) in which the wave velocity is a function of spatial coordinates. Bending of acoustic rays in layered... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45093519 |
Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich (October 12, 1917 – August 18, 2004) was a leading micropaleontologist, a professor of geology at the University of California, Los Angeles, a United States Geological Survey (USGS) biostratigrapher, and a scientific illustrator whose micropaleontology specialty was research on Cretaceous for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45095893 |
Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich Protista 2 (Sarcodina, Chiefly "Thecamoebians" and Foraminiferida), Volumes 1 and 2 (1964) by USGS and the University of Kansas and their two-volume work, "Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification", published in 1988 by Springer. The "Treatise" classified foraminifera genera by the morph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45095893 |
Sinton (crater) Sinton is a crater in the Ismenius Lacus quadrangle on Mars, located at 40.72°N and 328.35°W. Sinton Crater lies in the northern hemisphere south of the very large crater Lyot (Martian crater). It is 65.25 km in diameter and was named after Harvard astronomer William M. Sinton. The name was approved in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45115359 |
Müller (Martian crater) Müller is a 120.5 kilometer crater in the Martian southern hemisphere, at 25.74°S, 127.89°E, located in the Terra Cimmeria region of the Mare Tyrrhenum quadrangle of Mars. According to the International Astronomical Union's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature, Müller is jointly named... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45128006 |
John Holman (chemist) Sir John Stranger Holman (born 16 September 1946) is an English chemist and academic. He is emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of York, senior advisor in education at the Gatsby Foundation, founding director of the National STEM Learning Centre, Chair of the Bridge Group, past presi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45138583 |
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