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George Blasse (born 28 August 1934) is a Dutch chemist. He was a professor of solid-state chemistry at Utrecht University for most of his career. Blasse was born on 28 August 1934 in Amsterdam. He studied chemistry at the University of Amsterdam. In 1964 he obtained his PhD under E.W. Gorter at Leiden University with a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50850022 |
Hallandian-Danopolonian event The was an orogeny and thermal event that affected Baltica in the Mesoproterozoic. The event metamorphosed pre-existing rocks and generated magmas that crystallized into granite. The has been suggested to be responsible for forming an east-west alignment of sedimentary basins hosting Jotni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50850380 |
William M. Furnish William Madison Furnish (born August 17, 1912, in Tipton, Iowa, died November 9, 2007) was an American paleontologist. He taught at the University of Iowa. In 1938, he described the conodont genus "Acanthodus" from the Prairie du Chien (Lower Ordovician) beds of the upper Mississippi valley. In 1964,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50858083 |
Elivagar Flumina is a network of river channels ranging from 23 km to 210 km in length in the region around the Menrva Crater of Titan. The channel system is at least 120 km wide and shows signs of erosion. At its mouth, an alluvial fan is present. The is interpreted as alluvial due to its closeness to fluvial valleys ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50863546 |
R bodies (from "refractile" bodies, also R-bodies) are polymeric protein inclusions formed inside the cytoplasm of bacteria. Initially discovered in kappa particles, bacterial endosymbionts of the ciliate "Paramecium", (and genes encoding them) have since been discovered in a variety of taxa. At neutral pH, type 51 res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50871925 |
R bodies coli" spheroplasts, demonstrating that they can rupture membranes in a foreign context, and they can be engineered to extend at a variety of different pH levels. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50871925 |
Nadia Zakamska is a Russian-American astronomer who is a professor at Johns Hopkins University. Zakamska graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a master's degree in theoretical physics in 2001. Zakamska then attended Princeton University for her PhD, which she received in 2005. Zakamska's resear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50885756 |
Raymond L. Ethington Raymond (Ray) Lindsay Ethington (born in 1929) is an American paleontologist. He works in the Geology department at the University of Missouri. He was one of the Chief Panderers of the Pander Society, an informal organisation founded in 1967 for the promotion of the study of conodont palaeontology.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50900343 |
NGC 6120 CGCG 196-041, HOLM 739A, CGCG 1618.0+3754, PGC 057842, CGPG 1618.0+3754, UZC J161948.1+374628, MCG +06-36-029, FIRST J161948.0+374628, 2MASX J16194809+3746282, NVSS J161948+374628, 2MASXi J1619480+374627, [M98j] 251 NED01, IRAS 16180+3753, [SLK2004] 1229, IRAS F16180+3753, ISOSS 078 is a spiral galaxy located ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50921451 |
Meiyu front The meiyu" front, also known as baiu" front, is a persistent nearly stationary weak baroclinic zone in the lower troposphere. It is located over the east coast of China and Taiwan at its western end, and over the Pacific Ocean south of Japan at its eastern end. The term "meiyu" ("mei-yu") is Chinese for "pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50925395 |
Central Geological Service In September, 2010, the geology stream of the Geological Survey of India (GSI), was constituted as 'the Ministry of Mines, Central Geological Service, Group ‘A’' and commonly referred as (CGS) (केन्द्रीय भूवैज्ञानिक सेवा). The (CGS) comes under Central Civil Services which is part of the Gove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50934862 |
Central Geological Service The report is compiled annually and is initiated by the officers themselves, designated as the Reporting Officer, who lists out their achievements, completion of assigned activities and targets for the year. The report is then modified and commented by the Reviewing Officer, usually the super... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50934862 |
NGC 142 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Cetus. It was discovered by Frank Muller in 1886. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50955026 |
Conrado Varotto Conrado Franco Varotto (born 13 August 1941) is a physicist who is the former executive and technical director of the Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE), Argentine space agency. Born in Brugine, Italy, he arrived in his childhood to Argentina where he received his doctorate in physics a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50956845 |
26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (diamond) The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ("26th Congress of the CPSU", ) is a 342.57 carat fancy lemon yellow raw diamond, the largest gem diamond ever found in Russia or the territory of the former Soviet Union, and one of the large... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50961537 |
Alexander Pushkin (diamond) The Alexander Pushkin () is a 320.65 carat colorless raw diamond, the second largest gem diamond ever found in Russia or the territory of the former Soviet Union (after the 26th Congress of the CPSU), and one of the largest in the world as of 2016. It was mined at the Udachnaya kimberlitic p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50961831 |
Maurice Gilbert Perrot des Gozis (12 November 1851 – 11 April 1909, Montluçon) was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. His collections are held by Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50971480 |
August Ahrens (1779, Walbeck – 28 November 1841, Hettstedt) was a German entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. Partial list | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50972055 |
Jean Louis Florent Polydore Roux (27 July 1792, Marseille -12 April 1833 , Bombay) was a French painter and naturalist. Jean-Louis-Florent-Polydore Roux was, from his childhood, interested in natural history and had a large insect collection. He was taught by Pierre André Latreille and Georges Cuvier at Académie des sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50978057 |
Robert Edwards Carter Stearns (1 February 1827, Boston – 27 July 1909, Los Angeles) was an American conchologist. Robert Stearns was passionate about natural history in his youth. Later he specialised in conchology, especially that of the West Coast of the United States. He was a member of the Fisheries Commission (188... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50987710 |
Comparison of DNA sequencing services This page lists the different DNA sequencing services. 2 main types can be distinguished: Whole exome sequencing is the middle ground between these two types, where a large amount of genes are sequenced, but only those that produce meaningful differences important for practical pur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50992773 |
Molly R. Morris is an American behavioral ecologist who has worked with treefrogs and swordtail fishes in the areas of alternative reproductive tactics and sexual selection. Morris received a Bachelor of Arts from Earlham College and a PhD from Indiana University. As a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50995575 |
Paolo Lioy (31 July 1834, Vicenza – 27 January 1911, Vancimuglio di Grumolo delle Abbadesse) was an Italian naturalist, redshirt patriot and politician. After graduating from high school, Lioy studied law in Padua. In 1853 he demonstrated his childhood interest in the natural sciences, by taking part in the reorganizat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51002757 |
Paolo Lioy His exile lasted a few months, after which he returned to Vicenza where he was appointed Provveditorato agli studi and became a Deputy, although again only for a few months. He served as councillor from 1866 to 1902 and from 1867 to 1905 provincial Councillor. From 1870 he was elected to 6 consecutive legisl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51002757 |
Amandus Heinrich Christian Zietz (13 June 1840–2 August 1921) was a zoologist and paleontologist born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, and best known for his work at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide, after arriving in South Australia in 1883. He and his son Frederick Robert Zietz, also a zoologist, worked on pres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51028770 |
Calcium triplet The infrared Ca II triplet, commonly known as the calcium triplet, is a triplet of three ionised calcium spectral lines at the wavelengths of 8498 Å, 8542 Å and 8662 Å. The triplet has a strong emission, and is most prominently observed in the absorption of spectral type G, K and M stars. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51030981 |
Coleman Townsend Robinson (12 January 1838 – 1 May 1872) was an American entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He wrote Grote, A.R., & Robinson, C.T. 1867–1868. Descriptions of American Lepidoptera – Nos 1–3. "Transactions of the American Entomological Society" 1(1): 1–30; (2): 171–192, pl. 4; (4): 323–360, pl. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51040597 |
Chip budding is a grafting technique. A chip of wood containing a bud is cut out of scion with desirable properties (tasty fruit, pretty flowers, etc.). A similarly shaped chip is cut out of the rootstock, and the scion bud is placed in the cut, in such a way that the cambium layers match. The new bud is usually fixed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51049784 |
Karen Koch (plant biologist) Karen Koch is a plant biologist in the horticultural science department in the University of Florida. She is a professor in the Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology (PMCB) Program, Horticultural Sciences Department, and Genetics Institute at University of Florida. Koch's lab is best known f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51050163 |
Karen Koch (plant biologist) Here are the list of publications from Koch's lab. Koch is the 2016 recipient of the Charles Reid Barnes Award, the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)’s oldest award. According to ASPB 'Karen has excelled in research, in the training of students of plant biology, and in service to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51050163 |
Dominique Bergmann Dominique C. Bergmann is a plant scientist with a specific focus on developmental biology and plant biology. Correspondingly, she is a professor of Biology at Stanford University and is in association with the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. Additionally, Bergmann ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51050351 |
Dominique Bergmann Focusing specifically on "Asymmetry, Fate and Renewal in Plant Development" , Bergmann uses the development of stomata as a model to study cell fate, the self renewal of stem cells and cell polarity in plants. Bergmann, along with her team (collectively known as "The Bergmann Lab"), use a large varie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51050351 |
Kukri Peneplain The is a near-horizontal and flat unconformity in the Transantarctic Mountains. The peneplain formed by erosion of the granitic and metamorphic basement rocks during the Paleozoic (Silurian to Devonian). dips gently to the west. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51053056 |
Aurora Green Diamond The is a vivid green diamond with VS2 clarity. In May 2016, the Aurora Green became the largest vivid green diamond to ever sell at auction. The record was previous held by a 2.54 carat Fancy Vivid Green VS1 diamond that was sold by Sotheby’s on November 17, 2009 for $1.22 million per carat accordi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51058214 |
Methyl green (CI 42585) is a cationic or positive charged stain, related to Ethyl Green, that has been used for staining DNA since the 19th century. It has been used for staining cell nuclei either as a part of the classical Unna-Pappenheim stain, or as a nuclear counterstain ever since.<br> In recent years, its fluore... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51066217 |
Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch (1907–1970) was a German-Peruvian malacologist and entomologist. Weyrauch was born on December 7, 1907, in Elberfeld, Germany. He received his PhD in Zoology in 1929 from the University of Berlin with a thesis on insect neurophysiology. From 1928 to 1929, he was an assistant of Richard Hesse, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51067177 |
Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch The following gastropod species were named after Weyrauch: Also, a species of snake is named after Weyrauch: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51067177 |
Gilbert Klapper is a paleontologist. In 1971, with Graeme M. Philip, he described the conodont family Cryptotaxidae and the conodont genus "Cryptotaxis". In 1981, he described the conodont families Distomodontidae and Kockelellidae. He received the Pander Medal, an award from the Pander Society, an informal organisatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51070323 |
NGC 143 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered by Frank Muller in 1886. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51072693 |
Coastal Cliff of northern Chile The () stretches over a length of more than 1000 km along the Atacama Desert. It makes up a large part of the western boundary to the Chilean Coast Range in the regions of Tarapacá and Antofagasta, and Atacama. According to Roland Paskoff the modern cliff origined from a scarp retreat of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51075083 |
Dragon silk is a material created by Kraig Biocraft Laboratories of Ann Arbor, Michigan from genetically modified silkworms to create body armor. combines the elasticity and strength of spider silk. It has the tensile strength as high as 1.79 gigapascals (as much as 37%) and the elasticity above 38% exceeding the maxim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51082660 |
Dragon silk But the problem was that spiders are cannibalistic and territorial, so it is impossible to create a cost-effective spider farm. To overcome this problem, scientists at Kraig Labs developed a method for making spider silk from silkworms. In 2011, Malcolm J. Fraser, Donald L. Jarvis and their colleagues publi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51082660 |
Dispersive medium A dispersive medium is a medium in which waves of different frequencies travel at different velocities. With electromagnetic radiation (e.g. light, radio waves), dispersion corresponds to a frequency-dependent variation in the index of refraction of the medium. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51084847 |
Bikanta is a startup biotech company that develops clinical products which focus on the detection of cancer through the insertion of fluorescent nanodiamonds. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Berkeley, California. raised $120k in seed funding in 2014. In 2014, participated in the Y Combinator program and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51087060 |
Ed Landing (born 10 August 1949 in Milwaukee) is an American geologist and paleontologist. As an undergraduate, Landing studied at the University of Wisconsin, where he gained his BSc, later attending graduate school at the University of Michigan, earning his MSc and PhD. He held post doctoral positions at University o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51093888 |
Ed Landing In June 2010, an article in the magazine "Geology" for which Landing was the lead author was noted for providing the first definitive proof that "all major animal groups with internal and external skeletons appeared in the Cambrian geological period (543–489 million years ago)." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51093888 |
NGC 6412 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Draco. It is designated as SBc in the galaxy morphological classification scheme and was discovered by the British astronomer William Herschel on 12 December 1797. is located at about 76.6 away from earth.<ref name="NASA/IPAC"></ref> | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51113883 |
NGC 144 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus (the Whale). The galaxy was discovered in 1886 by Frank Muller. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51119464 |
Von Baeyer nomenclature The von Baeyer nomenclature is a system for describing polycyclic hydrocarbons. The system was originally developed in 1900 by Adolf von Baeyer for bicyclic systems and in 1913 expanded by Eduard Buchner and Wilhelm Weigand for tricyclic systems. The system has been adopted and extended by the I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51119519 |
Denis Coulthard Graham Dr FRSE FRSC FIB FRSA (December 1929-12 October 2002) was a British biological chemist. He specialised in plant diseases and their treatment. He was born in Carlisle in December 1929. He went to Durham University graduating with a BSc. He then undertook postgraduate studies at the University of E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51123208 |
The End of Night (book) The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light is a 2013 non-fiction book by Paul Bogard on the gradual disappearance, due to light pollution, of true darkness from the night skies of most people on the planet. Bogard examines the effects of this loss on human phy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51130935 |
The End of Night (book) He experiences firsthand the deleterious effects of night shift work, talks with a former prison inmate about the psychological effects of uninterrupted light, and shares his own fear of the dark. Bogard ultimately finds a Bortle level 1 environment: an environment so perfectly free of stray lig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51130935 |
The End of Night (book) " The book was awarded the 2014 Nautilus Silver Award. It was named an Amazon Best Book of the Month and Nonfiction Editor's Pick for July 2013, and "Gizmodo" selected it as one of its Best Books of 2013. The book was shortlisted for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and was a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51130935 |
Magma ocean Magma oceans exist during periods of Earth's or any planet's accretion when the planet is completely or partly molten. In the early solar system, energy to melt objects came largely from the decay of radioactive aluminum-26. As planets grew larger, the energy was supplied from large or giant impacts. During... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51138349 |
Donald L. Turcotte Donald Lawson Turcotte (born 22 April 1932) is an American geophysicist, most famous for his work on the boundary layer theory of mantle convection as part of the theory of plate tectonics. He works at the University of California, Davis. He has won awards including the Arthur L. Day Medal of the Geo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51138496 |
Richard J. O'Connell Richard John O'Connell (August 27, 1941 – April 2, 2015) was an American geophysicist working on the internal dynamics of the Earth and how they evolved over time and are observed at the surface. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from California Institute of Technology, and spent most o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51138529 |
August Schlickum (7 August 1867 in Winningen – 28 May 1946, Cologne) was a German schoolteacher and naturalist. Schlickum's father, Oskar Schlickum (1838–1869) and grandfather, Julius Schlickum (1804–1884) were both pharmacists and amateur botanists. Schlickum studied natural sciences and mathematics at the universitie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51141033 |
LEDA 89996 LEDA 89996, also known by its 2MASS designation 2MASS J04542829-6625280, is a spiral galaxy. It is located within the Dorado constellation and appears very close to the Large Magellanic Cloud. The galaxy was observed by the Hubble Telescope in 6 July 2015 and is similar in appearance to the Milky Way being s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51150873 |
BioViva is a Bainbridge Island, Washington-based biotechnology company researching treatments to slow the ageing process in humans. was founded in 2015. CEO Elizabeth Parrish appeared at WIRED Health 2017 in London to discuss BioViva's testing of gene therapies targeting hallmarks of the ageing process. She stated, "Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51153357 |
BioViva Bradley Johnson, Associate Professor of Pathology and Lab Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania said, "Telomere length measurements typically have low precision, with variation in measurements of around 10 percent, which is in the range of the reported telomere lengthening apparently experienced by Elizabe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51153357 |
BioViva " BioViva's research interests are based on preclinical research of both the enzyme telomerase and inhibition of myostatin. Telomerase gene therapy utilizing an adeno-associated virus at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), has demonstrated several beneficial effects and an increase in median lif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51153357 |
Doheny Eye Institute (Doheny Eye or DEI) established in 1947, is a nonprofit ophthalmic research institute. The doctors and scientists of undertake basic and clinical research, a role known as a physician-scientist. In 1944, Carrie Estelle Doheny, wife of the prominent Los Angeles oilman Edward L. Doheny, became blind ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51171186 |
Doheny Eye Institute Ryan became Medical Director and proposed the creation of the Doheny Eye Hospital, to serve as a new headquarters and provide clinical facilities for the ophthalmology faculty. The hospital was officially dedicated in 1985. In 1987, the Estelle Doheny Eye Foundation was renamed the Doheny Eye Insti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51171186 |
Doheny Eye Institute News & World Report" and in the Top Ten by "American Academy of Ophthalmology" since rankings began in 1993 and 1996, respectively. In 2016, Stein and Doheny Eye Institutes were ranked among the top 5 ophthalmology institutes in the United States by "U.S. News & World Report". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51171186 |
Tactoid Tactoids are liquid crystal microdomains nucleated in isotropic phases, which can be distinguished as spherical or spindle-shaped birefringent microdroplets under polarized light microscopy. Tactoids are a transition state between isotropic and macroscopic liquid crystalline phases. The first observation of tac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51179574 |
Doris Vickers (born 1980) is an Austrian archaeoastronomer and content manager for the Unesco "Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy". She was a global co-ordinator of the "Ancient Skies" project, along with Ruediger Schulz. The project began in 2006 aiming to create a knowledge base of human cultures and their knowledge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51199037 |
Ernest Allard Ernest (e) Allard (1820 - 1900) was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. He is not to be confused with the Belgian entomologist Vincent Allard (1921-1994). Allard's collection was acquired by René Oberthür and is now held by Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, in Paris and Museum Koenig ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51213082 |
Vladyslav Monchenko Vladyslav Ivanovych Monchenko () (2 April 1932 – 8 February 2016) was a Ukrainian zoologist and ecologist, a prolific copepodologist. He was a full professor and an Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The 3 genera and 9 species of crustaceans are named in honour of V. I. Monc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51219483 |
Hans Gebien 4 October 1874, Horn, Hamburg- 9 October 1947, Großhansdorf) was a German entomologist who specialised in Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera). His collections are in Biozentrum Grindel und Zoologisches Museum, Hamburg, the Natural History Museum of Basel, and in Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano (both ex Mus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51220368 |
NGC 7582 is a spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SB(s)ab in the constellation Grus. It has an angular size of 5.0' × 2.1' and an apparent magnitude of 11.37. It is about 70 million light years away from Earth and has a diameter of about 100,000 light years. The galaxy is classified as a Seyfert 2 galaxy, a type of active... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51223451 |
Cilix (crater) Cilix is a small crater on Europa that serves as the reference point for the moon's system of longitude. The longitude of Cilix's center is defined as being 182° W, thus establishing the moon's prime meridian. Cilix is about 15 km in diameter. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51224155 |
Beacon Pharmaceuticals Limited is a Bangladeshi pharmaceutical company that develops generic version of medications. Beacon manufactures more than 200 generic drugs and 65 oncology products. Beacon is the first company in Bangladesh to start export of cancer drugs. The company is exporting its products to Asia, Africa,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51230956 |
Fundamentals of Biochemistry Fundamentals of Biochemistry: Life at the Molecular Level is a biochemistry textbook written by Donald Voet, Judith G. Voet and Charlotte W. Pratt. Published by John Wiley & Sons, it is a common undergraduate biochemistry textbook. As of 2016, the book has been published in 5 editions. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51251453 |
Intra-arc basin In geology an intra-arc basin is a sedimentary basin that exists amidst a volcanic arc. Being located next to volcanoes intra-arc basins tend to host Volcano-sedimentary sequences. Cura-Mallín at the border of Chile and Argentina is an example of an intra-arc basin. Some Neoproterozoic clastic metasedim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51253915 |
Hexagonite is the red to pink, lilac to purple "manganoan" variety of tremolite. A rare amphibole, it can be transparent, translucent, and rarely opaque. is pleochroic, potentially displaying varying shades of blue, violet, purple, or red. It is also known as ""mangan-tremolite"", since the manganese imparts the minera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51266113 |
Victorium Victorium, originally named monium, is a mixture of gadolinium and terbium. In 1898, English chemist William Crookes reported his discovery of it in his inaugural address as president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He identified the new substance, based on an analysis of the unique... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51268849 |
Sunviridae is a family in the order "Mononegavirales". The family includes a single genus (Sunshinevirus), with a single species (Reptile sunshinevirus 1). The family was established in 2016 to taxonomically accommodate the Sunshine Coast virus (SunCV), previously referred to as "Sunshine virus", a novel virus discover... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51270099 |
NGC 148 (also known as PGC 2035) is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Sculptor. It is about 40,000 light years across. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51293821 |
NGC 149 is a lenticular galaxy in the Andromeda constellation. It was discovered by Édouard Stephan on October 4, 1883. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51294019 |
Complex (geology) In geology, a complex is a unit of rocks composed of rocks of two or three of the following rock types: metamorphic, igneous or sedimentary. Complexes are lithodemic units (rock units that are not layered or stratigraphically bound) usually of regional extent. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51294229 |
NGC 154 is an elliptical galaxy in the Cetus constellation. The galaxy was discovered by Frederick William Herschel on November 27, 1785. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51295643 |
293T (or HEK 293T) is a human cell line, derived from the HEK 293 cell line, that expresses a mutant version of the SV40 large T antigen. It is very commonly used in biology for protein expression and production of recombinant retroviruses. was created in Michele Calos's lab at Stanford by stable transfection of the HE... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51299313 |
NGC 155 is a lenticular galaxy in the Cetus constellation. It was discovered on September 1, 1886, by Lewis A. Swift. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51301299 |
NGC 156 is a double star located in the Cetus constellation. It was discovered on 1882 by Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51301471 |
NGC 159 is a barred lenticular galaxy in the constellation Phoenix. The galaxy was discovered on October 28, 1834, by John Frederick William Herschel. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51309385 |
NGC 160 is a spiral galaxy in the Andromeda constellation. It was discovered on December 5, 1785, by William Herschel. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51309880 |
NGC 161 is a lenticular galaxy in the Cetus constellation. It was discovered on November 21, 1886, by Lewis A. Swift. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51310415 |
Nastulus Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh Nasṭūlus (or Basṭūlus) was a notable 10th-century astronomer and astrolabist. He is known for making the oldest surviving astrolabe, dated 927/928 AD. Another partially preserved astrolabe that bears his signature, "Made by Nasṭūlus in the year 315" of hijra (925 AD), contains the earli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51317367 |
Constantino Mpodozis Marin is a Chilean geologist known for his contributions to the economic geology, magmatic activity and tectonics of Chile. As of 2015 he was executive of Antofagasta Minerals. He has been a member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences since 2009. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51326471 |
Aristide Caradja (28 September 1861 – 29 May 1955) was a Romanian entomologist and lawyer. was born in 1861 to the Caradja family, nobles with Greek-Byzantine origins who had serves as dignitaries in the Ottoman Empire. His father died in 1887, whereupon Aristide moved to Romania. He did most of his work there. In 1893... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51332586 |
Miha Tišler (September 18, 1926) is a professor of chemistry at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Tišler is the author of 50 books and monographs on heterocyclic chemistry, and has been awarded Knight of the Order of St. Gregorius the Great. was born in Ljubljana on September 18, 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51336490 |
Stodtmeister cell Stodtmeister cells are a sub-classification of neutrophils exhibiting a Pelger-Huet anomaly with a non-lobed nucleus that may appear round or oval shaped. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51336603 |
Susan Wijffels Susan Elizabeth Anne Wijffels (born 3 August 1965) is an Australian oceanographer employed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI); she formerly worked from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia. Wijffels specialises in quantifying global ocean c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51337828 |
Menke nitration The is the nitration of electron rich aromatic compounds with cupric nitrate and acetic anhydride. The reaction introduces the nitro group predominantly in the ortho position to the activation group. The reaction is named after the Dutch chemist J.B. Menke. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51352141 |
Pisces B (Psc B) is a void dwarf galaxy. It is located in the Local Void, near Pisces A; and is in the Pisces constellation. It is 30 million light-years (9.2 megaparsecs) away from the Earth. The galaxy was discovered with the WIYN Observatory. About 100 million years ago, the galaxy started moving out of the void and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51365224 |
Pisces A (Psc A) is a void dwarf galaxy. It is located in the Local Void, near Pisces B; and is in the Pisces constellation. It is 18.4 million light-years (5.64 megaparsecs) away from Earth. The galaxy was discovered with the WIYN Observatory. About 100 million years ago, the galaxy started moving out of the void and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51365228 |
Group 13 hydride Group 13 hydrides are chemical compounds containing group 13-hydrogen bonds (elements of group 13: boron, aluminium, gallium, indium, thallium). The simplest series has the chemical formula XH, with X representing any of the boron family. The great variety of boranes show a huge covalent cluster chemis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51382221 |
Earth System Dynamics is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union. The journal publishes articles describing original research on the geology, climate change, and atmospheric science. According to the 2016 "Journal Citation Reports",... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51385313 |
Phycotechnology refers to the technological applications of algae, both micro- and macroalgae. Algae is extremely useful in various fields. An example for natural phycotechnology is the converting of atmospheric nitrogen into bioaccessible nitrogenous compounds by diazotrophic cyanobacteria (blue-green algae). Species ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51388795 |
Phycotechnology Algae are an excellent feed stock for green fuel as they are used for the production of biodiesel, bioethanol, biogasoline, biomethanol, biobutanol, and recently biohydrogen. The full genome sequences of many species of cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae have been used for evolutionary studies and the i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51388795 |
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