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Science · 832 words
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The germ warfare agent anthrax is a bacterium that, if inhaled, can kill a person in a matter of days. It sounds like science fiction, like something a mad scientist developed in a lab in hopes of taking over the world. In reality is an ancient disease of live stock and humans known since...
Science · 5,754 words
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Mickey Mantle: What time is it?
Yogi Berra: Do you mean right now?
Though there are many analogies between time and space, there appear to be three commonplace yet deeply perplexing features of time that reveal it to be quite unlike space. These can...
Science · 390 words
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is war fought with chemicals. The development of chemical weapons and defenses against these weapons are usually considered together in military training. These weapons can be designed to kill large numbers of people, disable them for a while, or destroy their...
Science · 1,738 words
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When Newton proposed his axioms describing fundamental laws of physics, he insisted on the necessity of absolute space to a completed theory of mechanics. Absolute space can be best described as not-relationally-dependent space. Newton purports that there...
Science · 1,489 words
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Of all the scientists to emerge from the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries there is one whose name is
known by almost all living people. While most of
these do not understand this man's work,
everyone knows that its impact on the world of
science is astonishing....
Science · 1,013 words
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Alzheimer's Disease is a progressive and irreversible brain disease that destroys mental and physical functioning in human beings, and invariably leads to death. It is the fourth leading cause of adult death in the United States. Alzheimer's creates...
Science · 1,096 words
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Myopic little men in tuxedos, or highly efficient land/water animals? Recent research indicates there's more to penguins than meets the eye. If you?ve every wondered what it would be like to be able to see as clearly under water as you can on land, just ask the nearest...
Science · 1,477 words
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Attention Deficit Disorder is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. There appears to be a deficiency in the brains ability to produce or use certain chemicals called transmitter substances or neurotransmitters. The theory is that a shortage of certain...
Science · 1,327 words
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?Today millions of people are bypassing the offices of their family physicians, internists, gynecologists, and pediatricians in favor of...
Science · 405 words
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Everybody knows what the chicken pox are, they are
when you get bumps all over your body. The cause of the
chicken pox is the virus varicella. Males and females are
both able to get the virus, but children ages five to six are
the most likely to be infected.Like I said...
Science · 2,359 words
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Curtis Shephard
: Immortality or total annihilation?
Technology has evolved from ideals once seen as unbelievable to common everyday instruments.
Computers that used to occupy an entire room are now the size of notebooks. The human race has...
Science · 1,481 words
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Hypogravitational Osteoporosis: A review of literature. By Lambert Titus Parker. May 19 1987. (GEnie Spaceport) Osteoporosis: a condition characterized by an absolute decrease in the amount of bone present to a level below which it is capable of maintaining the...
Science · 5,028 words
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Of all gynecologic malignancies, ovarian cancer continues to have the
highest mortality and is the most difficult to diagnose. In the United States
female population, ovarian cancer ranks fifth in absolute mortality among
cancer related deaths (13,000/yr). In...
Science · 249 words
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is a very common metal, still used widely today. It was first discovered by Hans Christian Oersted at Denmark in 1825. Oersted reacted aluminum chloride with potassium amalgam. Heating these two substances under reduced pressure caused the mercury to boil away,...
Science · 761 words
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Growing Transitions
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In the United States of America, one to three percent of the school age population have the full attention deficit (hyperactivity) Disorder syndrome (Internet site 1). This numerical figure may not seem to convey a need...
