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... and improvements of sea
defences against tsunamis—the great ‘tidal waves’ that often accompany
earthquakes.
City by city, district by district, experts calculate the risks of damage and
casualties ... potential energy of a stream about to go over a
waterfall. The energy associated with a certain speed or temperature was greater
in a large mass than in a small one, but only in...
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... Feenstra introduced his students to a weed
called Arabidopsis thaliana, a relative of mustard. He was following a suggestion
made in 1 943 by Friedrich Laibach of Frankfurt, that arabidopsis was a handy
plant ... Toronto
With offices in
Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece
Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Por tugal Singapore
South Korea Switzerland Thail...
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... satellites.
They have masses a few times greater than the Sun’s, and nowadays they are
called microquasars. The black hole idea was thus available, ready made, for
explaining the quasars and active galaxies ... are also seasonal differences in the uptake and
release of the gas by seawater. The asymmetry results in a yearly wave in the
graph of global carbon dioxide, as measured at Mau...
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... those back together, abolishing the
Atlantic Ocean, and the job is half-done.
East of Africa it’s trickier, because Antarctica, India and Australia could fit
together in old Gondwana-Land in various ... called them
the Altaids, after the magnificent Altai mountain range that runs from
Kazakhstan to China.
‘The Tethysides and the Altaids cover nearly a half of the entire continent of
E...
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... proteins, and animals make
greater use of this versatility than plants do. Another is that plants, being
stationary, need a wider range of defences than animals that can run away
from danger.
In comparison ... 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...
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... Berkeley announced
another walker, around 5.5 million years old, found in Ethiopia. He called it
Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba, where kadabba meant ‘basal family ancestor’ in the
Afar language of the ... widespread changes in
the Atlantic reaching to South America and West Africa, already correlated with
solar variations by other scientists. Farther afield, reductions of rainfall in East
A...
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obvious way to establish that one scenario rather than another was what
actually happened. Also lacking is clear knowledge about what the planet was
like at the time. It was certainly not a tranquil ... peculiar monotremes of
Australia,’ she said. ‘The mammals that really matter had a northern origin, as
we see in Mongolia.’
I Puzzles of ever-changing geography
Mammals are hairy and...
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... possibility of
retreat as well as advance, remains a valid basis for thinking generally about
co-evolution and its weaponr y. Hamilton’s idea of sex as a means of sharing out
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plant diseases
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order of size they are the Pacific, African, Eurasian, Indo-Australian, North
American, Antarctic...
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... search for sparticles at Fermilab near
Chicago, begun in 1996, concluded only that a gluino, if it exists at all, must be
at least as heavy as an atom of lead. That was beyond the capacity of ... the
surface. During a total eclipse it appears as the streaky corona that gives the
atmosphere its technical name. Telescopes called coronagraphs use a central
mask to create an artificial...
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... Kurile Islands, Kamchatka in eastern Russia, and thence via the
Aleutian Islands to Alaska.
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volcanic explosions
Aspects of the scenario are still debated. Especially uncertain is how all of these
cells ... 2000
Valtaoja: personal communication, 2002
Brain images
Landau: W.M. Landau et al., Transactions of the American Neurological Association, vol. 80,
pp. 125–9, 1955
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- a brief survey of modern theories
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- a quick tour of quickbooks simple start
- the beginnings of modern science and philosophy
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