Canaries In A Coal Mine: Best-Indicator Species For Detecting Abrupt Community Shifts
One central question in biodiversity conservation is to identify the risk of species extinction. What is the probability of a population of a species to…
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Yearly Archive: 2019
How Many Feet Are In 1 Acre?
An acre is a unit of area that historically has been used to measure tracts of land. 1 acre of land is approximately equal to 43,560 sq….
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What Is P4O10: Phosphorus Pentoxide
Phosphorous pentoxide is the common name for the compound with a chemical formula P4O10. Phosphorus pentoxide is a covalent compound that is composed of 4 phosphorus…
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White Spider: What Is It And Is It Deadly?
Picture this scenario: you are walking through a field populated with flowers of all colors. As you glance to your left, you catch the sight…
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What Are You? How Racial Ambiguity Impacts Social Interactions
Have you ever seen someone walking down the street and you just can’t quite figure out what race that person is? You may look at…
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Fusion Technology: The Stability Of Porous SiC-Based Materials
Published by Marta Malo CIEMAT, National Fusion Laboratory, 28040, Madrid, Spain These findings are described in the article entitled Stability of porous SiC based materials…
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Open-Cell Foams: Promising Materials In High-Temperature Energy Conversion And Utilization
Open-cell materials, such as metal and ceramic foams, have been extensively utilized in high-temperature applications due to their light weight, good flow-mixing capability, and ability…
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A Disposable Biosensing Device For Naked-Eye Detection Of Milk Pasteurization Indicator
Bypassing the conventional lab-based, time-intensive, protocol-oriented multistep methods of food quality assurances, recent interests have been tremendously focused on rapid, onsite, and accurate quality checkups….
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Capsaicin, The Pungent Ingredient In Chili Peppers, Has Antidepressant-Like Properties
Depression is a mental illness that affects nearly 320 million people around the world. It is the second-highest cause of work disability, and some projection…
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The Role Of Cellular Stress, Jumping Genes, And AMPK In Placental And Embryonic Development
The evolution of the human genome has been facilitated to a great extent by the activity of transposable elements (TEs), also known as “jumping genes”….
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Stable Isotopes Reveal Sources Of Chinese Tap Water
How much do you know about your tap water? Does your tap water come from groundwater or surface water sources? Actually, it is not an…
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