Monthly Archive: October 2018
Science Contributor
Municipal solid waste (MSW) is the waste that we produce in our home. It is mainly composed of putrescible and many recyclable materials, such as…
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Daniel Nelson
For the past four decades, Yellowstone National Park has been running an experiment. The experiment was to reintroduce wolves, long wiped out within the park,…
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Daniel Nelson
Africa is home to many fascinating animals that live in a variety of different biomes like deserts and savannas. Read on to learn more about…
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Daniel Nelson
What’s a tertiary consumer? Consumers are organisms that consume (eat) other organisms to sustain themselves. Organisms that are consumers include heterotrophs like some animals, fungi,…
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Daniel Nelson
Dinosaurs that have long necks belong to the clade of plant-eating dinosaurs known as sauropods. Sauropods are known for their characteristics like long neck, similarly…
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Alex Bolano
The carpet beetle is a colloquial name given to a number of species of beetle classified in the Desmistidae family. Found all over the world, adult carpet…
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Alex Bolano
Deposition, by definition in chemistry, refers to a phase transition in which matter transitions directly from a gaseous state into a solid state without passing through…
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Alex Bolano
The term “mosquito hawk” is a colloquial name for the crane fly, a number of species of flies that exist in the family Tipulidae. Mosquito hawks…
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Neurological disorders remain one of the last frontiers of medicine. Available treatments are few; of those that exist, most only mitigate symptoms and do nothing…
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There is evidence for long-lasting negative effects of adverse birth characteristics such as low birth weight, short birth length, small head circumference, preterm birth, and…
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The monsoon is a tropical climate system with a strong seasonal rain and wind pattern that affects more than 50% of the world’s population. The…
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