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... In theAlps he saw the tr aces of a vanished ocean, which formerly separ ated Italy andthe Adriatic region from Switzerland and Austria.1 63 The mathematics and abstract reasoning that emerged ... called themthe Altaids, after the magnificent Altai mountain range that runs fromKazakhstan to China.‘The Tethysides and the Altaids cover nearly a half of the entire continent of Eurasia,’ ... those back together, abolishing theAtlantic Ocean, and the job is half-done.East of Africa it’s trickier, because Antarctica, India and Australia could fittogether in old Gondwana-Land in various...

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... exclusivelyin Australia.Kangaroos, koalas and all of the typical native mammals of Australia aremarsupials. They give birth to very small offspring, which complete theirgestation in a body pouch ... one scenario rather than another was whatactually happened. Also lacking is clear knowledge about what the planet waslike at the time. It was certainly not a tranquil place.Big cr aters still ... great cycles of starbirth and planet-making, theeventual deaths of stars and planets, and rebirth from the debris. Water andother materials play a key physical role in star formation, by acting...

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... search for sparticles at Fermilab nearChicago, begun in 1996, concluded only that a gluino, if it exists at all, must beat least as heavy as an atom of lead. That was beyond the capacity of ... thesurface. During a total eclipse it appears as the streaky corona that gives theatmosphere its technical name. Telescopes called coronagraphs use a centralmask to create an artificial eclipse at ... because of technical problems in 2001.‘It was exciting to see the solar weather changing day by day,’ said Saku Tsuneta of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. ‘Storms on the Sun are...

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... Feenstra introduced his students to a weedcalled Arabidopsis thaliana, a relative of mustard. He was following a suggestionmade in 19 43 by Friedrich Laibach of Frankfurt, that arabidopsis was a handyplant ... DataData availableLibrary of Congress Cataloguing in Publication DataData availableTypeset in 11/13pt Danteby SPI Publisher Services, Pondicherry, IndiaPrinted in Great Britainon acid-free paper ... TorontoWith offices inArgentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France GreeceGuatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Por tugal SingaporeSouth Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine VietnamOxford...

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... satellites.They have masses a few times greater than the Sun’s, and nowadays they arecalled microquasars. The black hole idea was thus available, ready made, forexplaining the quasars and active galaxies ... are also seasonal differences in the uptake andrelease of the gas by seawater. The asymmetry results in a yearly wave in thegraph of global carbon dioxide, as measured at Mauna Loa.What rang ... somewhat laborious. By 2001, at Spain’s Instituto deAstrofisica de Canarias, Alister Graham and his colleagues realized that youcould judge the mass just by looking at a galaxy’s overall appearance.The...

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... and improvements of seadefences against tsunamis—the great ‘tidal waves’ that often accompanyearthquakes.City by city, district by district, experts calculate the risks of damage andcasualties ... potential energy of a stream about to go over a waterfall. The energy associated with a certain speed or temperature was greaterin a large mass than in a small one, but only in the narrow sense that ... of monsoon r ains in India andother parts of Asia and Africa is related to conditions of atmospheric pressureacross the tropical Pacific Ocean. Records from Tahiti and from Darwin inAustralia...

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... in our own backyard,at the oldest stars of the Milky Way Galaxy itself, and at nearby galaxies. Billions of years from now, the Magellanic Clouds and the Andromeda Galaxy may allcrash into us. ... Leicester arranged with Russian colleagues to have the basalt frommany of the West Siberian boreholes dated by argon-argon at a Scottish lab in EastKilbride. Again, it all came out at almost exactly ... predominant inthe early era of life on Earth. As a greenhouse gas, resisting the escape of radiantheat into space, the methane may have helped to keep the planet warm when,as astronomers calculate,...

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... Berkeley announcedanother walker, around 5.5 million years old, found in Ethiopia. He called itArdipithecus ramidus kadabba, where kadabba meant ‘basal family ancestor’ in theAfar language of the ... on.The alternations of warmth and cold went all the way back, at average intervals of 134 0 years, with a big cooling 830 0 years ago, to events at the end of the lastice age. The great wobble-induced ... widespread changes inthe Atlantic reaching to South America and West Africa, already correlated withsolar variations by other scientists. Farther afield, reductions of rainfall in EastAfrica coincided...

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... possibility of retreat as well as advance, remains a valid basis for thinking generally aboutco-evolution and its weaponr y. Hamilton’s idea of sex as a means of sharing out 539 plant diseasesPotatoes ... feature was the absence of jaguars, pumas, harpy eagles, anteating armadillos and other predators on all of the smallest islands, letting the seed-eating rodents, leaf-cutter ants andmonkeys run amok.Riveros ... large plates account for 94 per cent of the Earth’s surface. In descendingorder of size they are the Pacific, African, Eurasian, Indo-Australian, NorthAmerican, Antarctic and South American...

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... 160 3, 2000Valtaoja: personal communication, 2002Brain imagesLandau: W.M. Landau et al., Transactions of the American Neurological Association, vol. 80,pp. 125–9, 1955Scandinavian researchers: ... in a museum. There is a Dark Age of a billionyears, or perhaps much less than that, between the microwave background andthe appearance of the stars and galaxies. Very distant objects are also ... editorial in Science, vol. 291, p. 2515, 2001National Academy of Sciences: Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions,Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 2001Editors of Science: ...

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