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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological%20determinism
Technological determinism
Technological determinism is a reductionist theory in assuming that a society's technology progresses by following its own internal logic of efficiency, while determining the development of the social structure and cultural values. The term is believed to have originated from Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), an American s...
Technology
General
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container
Container
A container is any receptacle or enclosure for holding a product used in storage, packaging, and transportation, including shipping. Things kept inside of a container are protected on several sides by being inside of its structure. The term is most frequently applied to devices made from materials that are durable and ...
Technology
Tools: General
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projector
Projector
A projector or image projector is an optical device that projects an image (or moving images) onto a surface, commonly a projection screen. Most projectors create an image by shining a light through a small transparent lens, but some newer types of projectors can project the image directly, by using lasers. A virtual r...
Technology
Optical instruments
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westerhout%2040
Westerhout 40
Westerhout 40 or W40 (also designated Sharpless 64, Sh2-64, or RCW 174) is a star-forming region in the Milky Way located in the constellation Serpens. In this region, interstellar gas forming a diffuse nebula surrounds a cluster of several hundred new-born stars. The distance to W40 is 436 ± 9 pc (1420 ± 30 light year...
Physical sciences
Notable nebulae
Astronomy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger%20%28physiology%29
Hunger (physiology)
Hunger is a sensation that motivates the consumption of food. The sensation of hunger typically manifests after only a few hours without eating and is generally considered to be unpleasant. Satiety occurs between 5 and 20 minutes after eating. There are several theories about how the feeling of hunger arises. The desir...
Biology and health sciences
Health and fitness: General
Health
33834771
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Europe
Climate change in Europe
Climate change has resulted in an increase in temperature of 2.3 °C (4.14 °F) (2022) in Europe compared to pre-industrial levels. Europe is the fastest warming continent in the world. Europe's climate is getting warmer due to anthropogenic activity. According to international climate experts, global temperature rise sh...
Physical sciences
Climate change
Earth science
36425227
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised%20field
Raised field
In agriculture, a raised field is a large, cultivated elevation, typically bounded by water-filled ditches, that is used to allow cultivators to control environmental factors such as moisture levels, frost damage, and flooding. Examples of raised field agriculture can be found among some Pre-Hispanic cultures of Latin ...
Technology
Buildings and infrastructure
null
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20reality%20headset
Virtual reality headset
A virtual reality headset (or VR headset) is a head-mounted device that uses 3D near-eye displays and positional tracking to provide a virtual reality environment for the user. VR headsets are widely used with VR video games, but they are also used in other applications, including simulators and trainers. VR headsets t...
Technology
User interface
null
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telluric%20iron
Telluric iron
Telluric iron, also called native iron, is iron that originated on Earth, and is found in a metallic form rather than as an ore. Telluric iron is extremely rare, with only one known major deposit in the world, located in Greenland. Introduction With the exception of its molten core, nearly all elemental iron on Earth ...
Physical sciences
Minerals
Earth science
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slab%20%28geology%29
Slab (geology)
In geology, the slab is a significant constituent of subduction zones. Subduction slabs drive plate tectonics by pulling along the lithosphere to which they attach in a process known as slab pull and by inducing currents in the mantle via slab suction. The slab affects the convection and evolution of the Earth's mantl...
Physical sciences
Tectonics
Earth science
26626775
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig
Fig
The fig is the edible fruit of Ficus carica, a species of small shrub in the flowering plant family Moraceae, native to the Mediterranean region, together with western and southern Asia. It has been cultivated since ancient times and is now widely grown throughout the world. Ficus carica is the type species of the genu...
Biology and health sciences
Rosales
null
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesauridae
Silesauridae
Silesauridae is an extinct family of Triassic dinosauriforms. It is most commonly considered to be a clade of non-dinosaur dinosauriforms, and the sister group of dinosaurs. Some studies have instead suggested that most or all silesaurids comprised an early diverging clade or a paraphyletic grade within ornithischian d...
Biology and health sciences
Other prehistoric archosaurs
Animals
53575775
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregate%20%28geology%29
Aggregate (geology)
In geology, particularly in mineralogy and petrology, an aggregate is a mass of mineral crystals, mineraloid particles or rock particles. Examples are dolomite, which is an aggregate of crystals of the mineral dolomite, and rock gypsum, an aggregate of crystals of the mineral gypsum. Lapis lazuli is a type of rock comp...
Physical sciences
Terrestrial geology: General
Earth science
40659364
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic%20sea%20ice%20decline
Arctic sea ice decline
Sea ice in the Arctic region has declined in recent decades in area and volume due to climate change. It has been melting more in summer than it refreezes in winter. Global warming, caused by greenhouse gas forcing is responsible for the decline in Arctic sea ice. The decline of sea ice in the Arctic has been accelerat...
Physical sciences
Climate change
Earth science
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Size
Size
Size in general is the magnitude or dimensions of a thing. More specifically, geometrical size (or spatial size) can refer to three geometrical measures: length, area, or volume. Length can be generalized to other linear dimensions (width, height, diameter, perimeter). Size can also be measured in terms of mass, espec...
Mathematics
Three-dimensional space
null
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puberty
Puberty
Puberty is the process of physical changes through which a child's body matures into an adult body capable of sexual reproduction. It is initiated by hormonal signals from the brain to the gonads: the ovaries in a female, the testicles in a male. In response to the signals, the gonads produce hormones that stimulate li...
Biology and health sciences
Animal ontogeny
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft-sediment%20deformation%20structures
Soft-sediment deformation structures
Soft-sediment deformation structures develop at deposition or shortly after, during the first stages of the sediment's consolidation. This is because the sediments need to be "liquid-like" or unsolidified for the deformation to occur. These formations have also been put into a category called water-escape structures by...
Physical sciences
Sedimentology
Earth science
33876998
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian%20cat
Persian cat
The Persian cat, also known as the Persian Longhair, is a long-haired breed of cat characterised by a round face and short muzzle. The first documented ancestors of Persian cats might have been imported into Italy from Khorasan as early as around 1620, but this has not been proven. Instead, there is stronger evidence f...
Biology and health sciences
Cats
Animals
48400112
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion%20disk
Accretion disk
An accretion disk is a structure (often a circumstellar disk) formed by diffuse material in orbital motion around a massive central body. The central body is most frequently a star. Friction, uneven irradiance, magnetohydrodynamic effects, and other forces induce instabilities causing orbiting material in the disk to s...
Physical sciences
Basics_2
Astronomy
50762105
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emphysema
Emphysema
Emphysema is any air-filled enlargement in the body's tissues. Most commonly emphysema refers to the permanent enlargement of air spaces (alveoli) in the lungs, and is also known as pulmonary emphysema. Emphysema is a lower respiratory tract disease, characterised by enlarged air-filled spaces in the lungs, that can v...
Biology and health sciences
Specific diseases
Health
46728817
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic%20Mac%20OS
Classic Mac OS
Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and ending with Mac OS 9. The Macintosh operating system is credited with having popularized the gra...
Technology
Operating Systems
null
26685803
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisovan
Denisovan
The Denisovans or Denisova hominins ( ) are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic human that ranged across Asia during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic, and lived, based on current evidence, from 285 to 25 thousand years ago. Denisovans are known from few physical remains; consequently, most of what is known abou...
Biology and health sciences
Evolution
null
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared-use%20path
Shared-use path
A shared-use path, mixed-use path or multi-use pathway is a path which is "designed to accommodate the movement of pedestrians and cyclists". Examples of shared-use paths include sidewalks designated as shared-use, bridleways and rail trails. A shared-use path typically has a surface that is asphalt, concrete or firmly...
Technology
Road infrastructure
null
48413465
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteoarchaeota
Proteoarchaeota
Proteoarchaeota is a proposed archaeal kingdom thought to be closely related and possibly ancestral to the Eukaryotes. Classification The phylogenetic relationship of this group is still under discussion. The relationship of the members is approximately as follows:
Biology and health sciences
Archaea
Plants
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffery%E2%80%93Hamel%20flow
Jeffery–Hamel flow
In fluid dynamics Jeffery–Hamel flow is a flow created by a converging or diverging channel with a source or sink of fluid volume at the point of intersection of the two plane walls. It is named after George Barker Jeffery(1915) and Georg Hamel(1917), but it has subsequently been studied by many major scientists such a...
Physical sciences
Fluid mechanics
Physics
33895468
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab%20trap
Crab trap
Crab traps are used to bait, lure, and catch crabs for commercial or recreational use. Crabbing or crab fishing is the recreational hobby and commercial occupation of fishing for crabs. Different types of traps are used depending on the type of crab being fished for, geographic location, and personal preference. Histo...
Technology
Hunting and fishing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20brewery%20cask%20units
English brewery cask units
Capacities of brewery casks were formerly measured and standardised according to a specific system of English units. The system was originally based on the ale gallon of . In United Kingdom and its colonies, with the adoption of the imperial system in 1824, the units were redefined in terms of the slightly smaller impe...
Physical sciences
Measurement systems
Basics and measurement
39379960
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-extinction
De-extinction
De-extinction (also known as resurrection biology, or species revivalism) is the process of generating an organism that either resembles or is an extinct species. There are several ways to carry out the process of de-extinction. Cloning is the most widely proposed method, although genome editing and selective breeding ...
Technology
Biotechnology
null
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octasulfur
Octasulfur
Octasulfur is an inorganic substance with the chemical formula . It is an odourless and tasteless yellow solid, and is a major industrial chemical. It is the most common allotrope of sulfur and occurs widely in nature. Nomenclature The name octasulfur is the most commonly used for this chemical. It is systematically ...
Physical sciences
Group 16
Chemistry
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI%20alignment
AI alignment
In the field of artificial intelligence (AI), AI alignment aims to steer AI systems toward a person's or group's intended goals, preferences, or ethical principles. An AI system is considered aligned if it advances the intended objectives. A misaligned AI system pursues unintended objectives. It is often challenging f...
Technology
Artificial intelligence concepts
null
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical%20pressure%20variation
Vertical pressure variation
Vertical pressure variation is the variation in pressure as a function of elevation. Depending on the fluid in question and the context being referred to, it may also vary significantly in dimensions perpendicular to elevation as well, and these variations have relevance in the context of pressure gradient force and it...
Physical sciences
Fluid mechanics
Physics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20web
Dark web
The dark web is the World Wide Web content that exists on darknets (overlay networks) that use the Internet but require specific software, configurations, or authorization to access. Through the dark web, private computer networks can communicate and conduct business anonymously without divulging identifying informatio...
Technology
Internet
null
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission%20%28biology%29
Fission (biology)
Fission, in biology, is the division of a single entity into two or more parts and the regeneration of those parts to separate entities resembling the original. The object experiencing fission is usually a cell, but the term may also refer to how organisms, bodies, populations, or species split into discrete parts. The...
Biology and health sciences
Cellular division
null
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sediment%20gravity%20flow
Sediment gravity flow
A sediment gravity flow is one of several types of sediment transport mechanisms, of which most geologists recognize four principal processes. These flows are differentiated by their dominant sediment support mechanisms, which can be difficult to distinguish as flows can be in transition from one type to the next as th...
Physical sciences
Sedimentology
Earth science
33936518
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepas%20anatifera
Lepas anatifera
Lepas anatifera, commonly known as the pelagic gooseneck barnacle or smooth gooseneck barnacle, is a species of barnacle in the family Lepadidae. These barnacles are found, often in large numbers, attached by their flexible stalks to floating timber, the hulls of ships, piers, pilings, seaweed, and various sorts of flo...
Biology and health sciences
Crustaceans
Animals
40723560
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geochemical%20cycle
Geochemical cycle
In Earth science, a geochemical cycle is the pathway that chemical elements undergo to be able to interact with the reservoirs of chemicals in the surface and crust of the Earth. The term "geochemical" tells us that geological and chemical factors are all included. The migration of heated and compressed chemical elemen...
Physical sciences
Geochemistry
Earth science
49717050
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOSS%20Great%20Wall
BOSS Great Wall
The BOSS Great Wall is a supercluster complex that was identified, using the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), in early 2016. It was discovered by a research team from several institutions, consisting of: Heidi Lietzen, Elmo Tempel, Lauri Juhan Liivamägi, Antonio Mon...
Physical sciences
Notable patches of universe
Astronomy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium%20compounds
Helium compounds
Helium is the smallest and the lightest noble gas and one of the most unreactive elements, so it was commonly considered that helium compounds cannot exist at all, or at least under normal conditions. Helium's first ionization energy of 24.57 eV is the highest of any element. Helium has a complete shell of electrons, a...
Physical sciences
Noble gas compounds
Chemistry
52275513
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium%20triacetate
Aluminium triacetate
Aluminium triacetate, formally named aluminium acetate, is a chemical compound with composition . Under standard conditions it appears as a white, water-soluble solid that decomposes on heating at around 200 °C. The triacetate hydrolyses to a mixture of basic hydroxide / acetate salts, and multiple species co-exist i...
Physical sciences
Acetates
Chemistry
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monazite%20geochronology
Monazite geochronology
Monazite geochronology is a dating technique to study geological history using the mineral monazite. It is a powerful tool in studying the complex history of metamorphic rocks particularly, as well as igneous, sedimentary and hydrothermal rocks. The dating uses the radioactive processes in monazite as a clock. The uni...
Physical sciences
Geochronology
Earth science
32359456
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danyang%E2%80%93Kunshan%20Grand%20Bridge
Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge
The Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge () is a viaduct on the Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway. It is the longest bridge in the world. Bridge The bridge is located on the rail line between Shanghai and Nanjing in Jiangsu province. It is in the Yangtze River Delta, where the geography is characterized by lowland rice pa...
Technology
Bridges
null
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug%20class
Drug class
A drug class is a group of medications and other compounds that share similar chemical structures, act through the same mechanism of action (i.e., binding to the same biological target), have similar modes of action, and/or are used to treat similar diseases. The FDA has long worked to classify and license new medicati...
Biology and health sciences
General concepts_2
Health
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural%20expansion
Agricultural expansion
Agricultural expansion describes the growth of agricultural land (arable land, pastures, etc.) especially in the 20th and 21st centuries. The agricultural expansion is often explained as a direct consequence of the global increase in food and energy requirements due to continuing population growth (both which in turn ...
Technology
Agriculture and ecology
null
42193218
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20digestive%20system
Human digestive system
The human digestive system consists of the gastrointestinal tract plus the accessory organs of digestion (the tongue, salivary glands, pancreas, liver, and gallbladder). Digestion involves the breakdown of food into smaller and smaller components, until they can be absorbed and assimilated into the body. The process of...
Biology and health sciences
Human anatomy
Health
33962325
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markarian%20501
Markarian 501
Markarian 501 (or Mrk 501) is a galaxy with a spectrum extending to the highest energy gamma rays. It is a blazar or BL Lac object, which is an active galactic nucleus with a jet that is shooting towards the Earth. The object has a redshift of z = 0.034. Mrk 501 is an extremely variable source of gamma rays, undergoin...
Physical sciences
Notable galaxies
Astronomy
33965039
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-22b
Kepler-22b
Kepler-22b (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-087.01) is an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the Sun-like star Kepler-22. It is located about from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus. It was discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope in December 2011 and was the first known ...
Physical sciences
Notable exoplanets
Astronomy
46816256
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopithecus%20deyiremeda
Australopithecus deyiremeda
Australopithecus deyiremeda is an extinct species of australopithecine from Woranso–Mille, Afar Region, Ethiopia, about 3.5 to 3.3 million years ago during the Pliocene. Because it is known only from three partial jawbones, it is unclear if these specimens indeed represent a unique species or belong to the much better-...
Biology and health sciences
Australopithecines
Biology
40793094
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptopidae
Cryptopidae
The Cryptopidae are a family of scolopendromorph centipedes. Cryptopids are blind (lacking ocelli) and possess 21 pairs of legs. The genus Cryptops is the numerically largest in the family, comprising over 150 species worldwide. Classification The following genera, may be included: Cryptops Leach, 1814 Eremops Bol...
Biology and health sciences
Myriapoda
Animals
32402085
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuber%20%28fungus%29
Tuber (fungus)
Tuber is a genus in the fungal family Tuberaceae, with estimated molecular dating to the end of the Jurassic period (156 Mya). It includes several species of truffles that are highly valued as delicacies. New discoveries In 2015, a new species Tuber petrophilum (close relative to Tuber melanosporum and Tuber brumale) ...
Biology and health sciences
Edible fungi
Plants
45492650
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornhub
Pornhub
Pornhub is a Canadian-owned internet pornography video-sharing website, one of several owned by adult entertainment conglomerate Aylo. , Pornhub is the 16th-most-visited website in the world and the most-visited adult website. The site allows visitors to view pornographic videos from various categories, including prof...
Technology
Multimedia
null
39459842
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20village%20dog
African village dog
African village dogs are dogs found in Africa that are directly descended from an ancestral pool of indigenous dogs. African village dogs became the close companion of people in Africa, beginning in North Africa and spreading south. Middle Eastern origins The oldest dog remains to be found in Africa date 5,900 years b...
Biology and health sciences
Dogs
Animals
53718600
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh%20problem
Rayleigh problem
In fluid dynamics, Rayleigh problem also known as Stokes first problem is a problem of determining the flow created by a sudden movement of an infinitely long plate from rest, named after Lord Rayleigh and Sir George Stokes. This is considered as one of the simplest unsteady problems that have an exact solution for the...
Physical sciences
Fluid mechanics
Physics
40798692
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trommel%20screen
Trommel screen
A trommel screen, also known as a rotary screen, is a mechanical screening machine used to separate materials, mainly in the mineral and solid-waste processing industries. It consists of a perforated cylindrical drum that is normally elevated at an angle at the feed end. Physical size separation is achieved as the feed...
Technology
Metallurgy
null
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes%20simplex%20keratitis
Herpes simplex keratitis
Herpetic simplex keratitis is a form of keratitis caused by recurrent herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection in the cornea. It begins with infection of epithelial cells on the surface of the eye and retrograde infection of nerves serving the cornea. Primary infection typically presents as swelling of the conjunctiva and...
Biology and health sciences
Viral diseases
Health
38019008
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrowroot
Arrowroot
Arrowroot is a starch obtained from the rhizomes (rootstock) of several tropical plants, traditionally Maranta arundinacea, but also Florida arrowroot from Zamia integrifolia, and tapioca from cassava (Manihot esculenta), which is often labeled arrowroot. Polynesian arrowroot or pia (Tacca leontopetaloides), from Palaw...
Biology and health sciences
Monocots
null
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsehair%20crab
Horsehair crab
The horsehair crab, Erimacrus isenbeckii (Japanese: ケガニ, kegani), is a species of crab which is found mainly in the Northwest Pacific, around the Hokkaido coast in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Western Bering Sea and is an important commercial species used in Japanese cuisine. Despite the importance of the species, biolog...
Biology and health sciences
Crabs and hermit crabs
Animals
45515504
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbiome
Microbiome
A microbiome () is the community of microorganisms that can usually be found living together in any given habitat. It was defined more precisely in 1988 by Whipps et al. as "a characteristic microbial community occupying a reasonably well-defined habitat which has distinct physio-chemical properties. The term thus not ...
Biology and health sciences
Ecology
Biology
43674427
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative%20agriculture
Regenerative agriculture
Regenerative agriculture is a conservation and rehabilitation approach to food and farming systems. It focuses on topsoil regeneration, increasing biodiversity, improving the water cycle, enhancing ecosystem services, supporting biosequestration, increasing resilience to climate change, and strengthening the health and...
Technology
Agriculture_2
null
53735803
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin%20B3
Vitamin B3
{{DISPLAYTITLE:Vitamin B3}} Vitamin B3, colloquially referred to as niacin, is a vitamin family that includes three forms, or vitamers: niacin (nicotinic acid), nicotinamide (niacinamide), and nicotinamide riboside. All three forms of vitamin B3 are converted within the body to nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)....
Biology and health sciences
Vitamins
Health
40815891
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom%20%28navigational%20barrier%29
Boom (navigational barrier)
A boom or a chain (also boom defence, harbour chain, river chain, chain boom, boom chain or variants) is an obstacle strung across a navigable stretch of water to control or block navigation. In modern times they usually have civil uses, such as to prevent access to a dangerous river channel. But, especially historica...
Technology
Naval warfare
null
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola
Ebola
Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by ebolaviruses. Symptoms typically start anywhere between two days and three weeks after infection. The first symptoms are usually fever, sore throat, muscle pain, and hea...
Biology and health sciences
Infectious disease
null
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penetrator%20%28aircraft%29
Penetrator (aircraft)
A penetrator is a long-range bomber aircraft designed to intrude against and penetrate enemy defenses. The term is mostly applied to aircraft that fly at low altitude to avoid radar, a strategic counterpart to the shorter-ranged tactical interdictor designs like the TSR-2 and F-111 Aardvark. The term can be applied to ...
Technology
Military aviation
null
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmanisi%20hominins
Dmanisi hominins
The Dmanisi hominins, Dmanisi people, or Dmanisi man were a population of Early Pleistocene hominins whose fossils have been recovered at Dmanisi, Georgia. The fossils and stone tools recovered at Dmanisi range in age from 1.85 to 1.77 million years old, making the Dmanisi hominins the earliest well-dated hominin fossi...
Biology and health sciences
Homo
Biology
38046595
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution%20of%20tetrapods
Evolution of tetrapods
The evolution of tetrapods began about 400 million years ago in the Devonian Period with the earliest tetrapods evolved from lobe-finned fishes. Tetrapods (under the apomorphy-based definition used on this page) are categorized as animals in the biological superclass Tetrapoda, which includes all living and extinct amp...
Biology and health sciences
Basics_4
Biology
46870556
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valence%20and%20conduction%20bands
Valence and conduction bands
In solid-state physics, the valence band and conduction band are the bands closest to the Fermi level, and thus determine the electrical conductivity of the solid. In nonmetals, the valence band is the highest range of electron energies in which electrons are normally present at absolute zero temperature, while the con...
Physical sciences
Basics_2
Physics
32440734
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathogenic%20Escherichia%20coli
Pathogenic Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli ( ; commonly abbreviated E. coli) is a gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that is commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms (endotherms). Most E. coli strains are harmless, but pathogenic varieties cause serious food poisoning, septic shock, meningitis, or urinary tract infection...
Biology and health sciences
Bacterial infections
Health
38058647
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin%20of%20the%20Moon
Origin of the Moon
The origin of the Moon is usually explained by a Mars-sized body striking the Earth, creating a debris ring that eventually collected into a single natural satellite, the Moon, but there are a number of variations on this giant-impact hypothesis, as well as alternative explanations, and research continues into how the ...
Physical sciences
Solar System
Astronomy
49905070
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive%20source
Radioactive source
A radioactive source is a known quantity of a radionuclide which emits ionizing radiation, typically one or more of the radiation types gamma rays, alpha particles, beta particles, and neutron radiation. Sources can be used for irradiation, where the radiation performs a significant ionising function on a target mater...
Physical sciences
Nuclear physics
Physics
53769380
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webbed%20foot
Webbed foot
The webbed foot is a specialized limb with interdigital membranes (webbings) that aids in aquatic locomotion, present in a variety of tetrapod vertebrates. This adaptation is primarily found in semiaquatic species, and has convergently evolved many times across vertebrate taxa. It likely arose from mutations in deve...
Biology and health sciences
External anatomy and regions of the body
Biology
36645032
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity%20%28rover%29
Curiosity (rover)
Curiosity is a car-sized Mars rover exploring Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral (CCAFS) on November 26, 2011, at 15:02:00 UTC and landed on Aeolis Palus inside Gale crater on Mars on August 6, 2012, 05:17:57 UTC. The B...
Technology
Rovers
null
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor%E2%80%93Culick%20flow
Taylor–Culick flow
In fluid dynamics, Taylor–Culick flow describes the axisymmetric flow inside a long slender cylinder with one end closed, supplied by a constant flow injection through the sidewall. The flow is named after Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and F. E. C. Culick. In 1956, Taylor showed that when a fluid forced into porous sheet of c...
Physical sciences
Fluid mechanics
Physics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifting%20equipment
Lifting equipment
Lifting equipment, also known as lifting gear, is a general term for any equipment that can be used to lift and lower loads. Types of lifting equipment include heavy machinery such as the patient lift, overhead cranes, forklifts, jacks, building cradles, and passenger lifts, and can also include smaller accessories suc...
Technology
Tools
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20learning
Deep learning
Deep learning is a subset of machine learning that focuses on utilizing neural networks to perform tasks such as classification, regression, and representation learning. The field takes inspiration from biological neuroscience and is centered around stacking artificial neurons into layers and "training" them to process...
Technology
Artificial intelligence concepts
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan
Vulkan
Vulkan is a low-level, low-overhead cross-platform API and open standard for 3D graphics and computing. It was intended to address the shortcomings of OpenGL, and allow developers more control over the GPU. It is designed to support a wide variety of GPUs, CPUs and operating systems, and it is also designed to work wit...
Technology
Software development: General
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Antarctica
Climate change in Antarctica
Climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions from human activities occurs everywhere on Earth, and while Antarctica is less vulnerable to it than any other continent, climate change in Antarctica has been observed. Since 1959, there has been an average temperature increase of >0.05 °C/decade since 1957 across the ...
Physical sciences
Climate change
Earth science
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-Cloud
G-Cloud
The Galactic cloud, G cloud, G-Cloud or G-Cloud complex, is an interstellar cloud located next to the Local Interstellar Cloud, within the Local Bubble. It is unknown whether the Solar System is embedded in the Local Interstellar Cloud or in the region where the two clouds are interacting, although the Solar System is...
Physical sciences
Notable patches of universe
Astronomy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal%20tropical%20forest
Seasonal tropical forest
Seasonal tropical forest, also known as moist deciduous, semi-evergreen seasonal, tropical mixed or monsoon forest, typically contains a range of tree species: only some of which drop some or all of their leaves during the dry season. This tropical forest is classified under the Walter system as (i) tropical climate wi...
Physical sciences
Forests
Earth science
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20technology
Information technology
Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, data and information processing, and storage. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology system (IT system) is generally an information system, a comm...
Technology
Basics_3
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy
Taxonomy
Taxonomy is a practice and science concerned with classification or categorization. Typically, there are two parts to it: the development of an underlying scheme of classes (a taxonomy) and the allocation of things to the classes (classification). Originally, taxonomy referred only to the classification of organisms o...
Physical sciences
Science basics
Basics and measurement
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laniakea%20Supercluster
Laniakea Supercluster
The Laniakea Supercluster (; Hawaiian for "open skies" or "immense heaven") or the Local Supercluster (LSC or LS) is the galaxy supercluster that is home to the Milky Way and approximately 100,000 other nearby galaxies. It was defined in September 2014, when a group of astronomers including R. Brent Tully of the Unive...
Physical sciences
Notable galaxy clusters
Astronomy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20Sheet
Local Sheet
The Local Sheet in astronomy is a nearby extragalactic region of space where the Milky Way, the members of the Local Group and other galaxies share a similar peculiar velocity. This region lies within a radius of about , thick, and galaxies beyond that distance show markedly different velocities. The Local Group has o...
Physical sciences
Notable galaxy clusters
Astronomy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimation
Estimation
Estimation (or estimating) is the process of finding an estimate or approximation, which is a value that is usable for some purpose even if input data may be incomplete, uncertain, or unstable. The value is nonetheless usable because it is derived from the best information available. Typically, estimation involves "usi...
Mathematics
Basics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourner%20%28rover%29
Sojourner (rover)
The robotic Sojourner rover reached Mars on July 4, 1997 as part of the Mars Pathfinder mission. Sojourner was operational on Mars for 92 sols (95 Earth days), and was the first wheeled vehicle to operate on an astronomical object other than the Earth or Moon. The landing site was in the Ares Vallis channel in the Chry...
Technology
Rovers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstellar%20disc
Circumstellar disc
A circumstellar disc (or circumstellar disk) is a torus, pancake or ring-shaped accretion disk of matter composed of gas, dust, planetesimals, asteroids, or collision fragments in orbit around a star. Around the youngest stars, they are the reservoirs of material out of which planets may form. Around mature stars, they...
Physical sciences
Stellar astronomy
Astronomy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane%20emissions
Methane emissions
Increasing methane emissions are a major contributor to the rising concentration of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere, and are responsible for up to one-third of near-term global heating. During 2019, about 60% (360 million tons) of methane released globally was from human activities, while natural sources contrib...
Physical sciences
Climate change
Earth science
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic%20fishes
Antarctic fishes
Antarctic fish is a common name for a variety of fish that inhabit the Southern Ocean. There are relatively few families in this region, the most species-rich being the Liparidae (snailfishes), followed by Nototheniidae (cod icefishes). The latter is one of eight different families that belong to the suborder Nototheni...
Biology and health sciences
Acanthomorpha
Animals
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec.%202100
Rec. 2100
ITU-R Recommendation BT.2100, more commonly known by the abbreviations Rec. 2100 or BT.2100, introduced high-dynamic-range television (HDR-TV) by recommending the use of the perceptual quantizer (PQ [SMPTE ST 2084]) or hybrid log–gamma (HLG) transfer functions instead of the traditional "gamma" previously used for SDR-...
Physical sciences
Basics
Physics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphelida
Aphelida
Aphelida is a phylum of Fungi that appears to be the sister to true fungi. Taxonomy Phylum Aphelidiomycota Tedersoo 2018 [Aphelida Karpov, Aleoshin & Mikhailov 2014] Class Aphelidiomycetes Tedersoo 2018 [Aphelidea Gromov 2000] Order Aphelidiales Tedersoo et al. 2018 [Aphelidida Gromov 2000 non Cavalier-Smith 2012] ...
Biology and health sciences
Basics
Plants
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN%201972E
SN 1972E
SN 1972E was a supernova in the galaxy NGC 5253 that was discovered 13 May 1972 with an apparent B magnitude of about 8.5, shortly after it had reached its maximum brightness. In terms of apparent brightness, it was the second-brightest supernova of any kind (fainter only than SN 1987A) of the 20th century. It was ob...
Physical sciences
Notable transient events
Astronomy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry%20in%20quantum%20mechanics
Symmetry in quantum mechanics
Symmetries in quantum mechanics describe features of spacetime and particles which are unchanged under some transformation, in the context of quantum mechanics, relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, and with applications in the mathematical formulation of the standard model and condensed matter physi...
Physical sciences
Quantum mechanics
Physics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbiunium
Unbiunium
Unbiunium, also known as eka-actinium or element 121, is a hypothetical chemical element; it has symbol Ubu and atomic number 121. Unbiunium and Ubu are the temporary systematic IUPAC name and symbol respectively, which are used until the element is discovered, confirmed, and a permanent name is decided upon. In the pe...
Physical sciences
Periods
Chemistry
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracking
Fracking
Hydraulic fracturing is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of formations in bedrock by a pressurized liquid. The process involves the high-pressure injection of "fracking fluid" (primarily water, containing sand or other proppants suspended with the aid of thickening agents) into a wellbore to create...
Technology
Fuel
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamisiocarididae
Tamisiocarididae
Tamisiocarididae is a family of radiodonts, extinct marine animals related to arthropods, that bore finely-spined appendages that were presumably used in filter-feeding. When first discovered, the clade was named Cetiocaridae after a speculative evolution artwork, Bearded Ceticaris by John Meszaros, that depicted a hyp...
Biology and health sciences
Fossil arthropods
Animals
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow%20matching
Rainbow matching
In the mathematical discipline of graph theory, a rainbow matching in an edge-colored graph is a matching in which all the edges have distinct colors. Definition Given an edge-colored graph , a rainbow matching in is a set of pairwise non-adjacent edges, that is, no two edges share a common vertex, such that all the...
Mathematics
Graph theory
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arenicola
Arenicola
Arenicola, also known as sandworms, is a genus of capitellid annelid worms comprising the lugworms and black lugs. Species The following species are recognised in the genus Arenicola: Arenicola brasiliensis Nonato, 1958 Arenicola cristata Stimpson, 1856 Arenicola defodiens Cadman & Nelson-Smith, 1993 Arenicola gla...
Biology and health sciences
Lophotrochozoa
Animals
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position%20and%20momentum%20spaces
Position and momentum spaces
In physics and geometry, there are two closely related vector spaces, usually three-dimensional but in general of any finite dimension. Position space (also real space or coordinate space) is the set of all position vectors r in Euclidean space, and has dimensions of length; a position vector defines a point in space. ...
Physical sciences
Quantum mechanics
Physics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euharamiyida
Euharamiyida
Euharamiyida also known as Eleutherodontida, is clade of early mammals or mammal-like cynodonts from the Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous of Eurasia and possibly North America. The group is sometimes considered a sister group to Multituberculata, or part of an earlier divergence within the synapsid line. It is dispu...
Biology and health sciences
Stem-mammals
Animals
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum%20drying
Vacuum drying
Vacuum drying is the mass transfer operation in which the moisture present in a substance, usually a wet solid, is removed by means of creating a vacuum. In chemical processing industries like food processing, pharmacology, agriculture, and textiles, drying is an essential unit operation to remove moisture. Vacuum dr...
Physical sciences
Phase separations
Chemistry
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterocongrinae
Heterocongrinae
The garden eels are the subfamily Heterocongrinae in the conger eel family Congridae. The majority of the 36 known species of garden eels live in the Indo-Pacific, but can be found in warm ocean water worldwide. These small eels live in burrows on the sea floor and get their name from the behavior of poking their heads...
Biology and health sciences
Anguilliformes
Animals
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasles%27%20theorem%20%28kinematics%29
Chasles' theorem (kinematics)
In kinematics, Chasles' theorem, or Mozzi–Chasles' theorem, says that the most general rigid body displacement can be produced by a screw displacement. A direct Euclidean isometry in three dimensions involves a translation and a rotation. The screw displacement representation of the isometry decomposes the translation ...
Physical sciences
Basics_4
Physics