Universe a grand tour of modern science Phần 7 docx

... 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 warm-blooded, ... 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 place. Big cr ate...

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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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... 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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... Feenstra introduced his students to a weed called Arabidopsis thaliana, a relative of mustard. He was following a suggestion made in 1943 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 Thaila...

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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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... 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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... 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 all crash into us. ... Leicester arranged with Russian colleagues to have the basalt from many of the West Siberian boreholes dated by argon-argon at a Scottish lab in East Kilbride. Again, it all came out at al...

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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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... 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 539 plant diseases P otatoes ... 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-cutte...

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... editorial in Science, vol. 291, p. 2515, 2001 National Academy of Sciences: Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions, Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 2001 Editors of Science: ... in a museum. There is a Dark Age of a billion years, or perhaps much less than that, between the microwave background and the appearance of the stars and galaxies. Very...

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